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Talkback Perhaps you misread me or I miswrote myself. The only use I see for it is to run mobile corporate applications as a better/other form of smartphone. For most non techies a moby is for making phone...
Network lock-in still a problem
Talkback critics of the iPhone always pointed out it's 2G-ness, now that that's solved, the iPhone's biggest obstacle is network exclusivity, does Apple realise they'd sale a lot more iPhones if they...
RE:BBC threatens iPlayer hackers with mild annoyance
Blog Comment Yes, yes, but so what? I have a USB Freeview adapter connected to a Linux box to make a very handy PVR, so as far as I can see, putting content protection on iPhone downloads is like putting 3...
RE:PCLinuxOS 2008 Gnome on new laptop.
Blog Comment That's an interesting question - how many of Vista's "sales" really are not running Vista any more. A related question is, for those who bought Vista Business with an XP Professional "downgrade"...
Steve Jobs unveils the $199 iPhone 3G
News Apple's chief unveiled the long-awaited iPhone 3G at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, with drastically reduced pricing
Roaming - all or nothing?
Blog A thought occurred to me (it does happen from time to time) as I got out of Berlin's Tegel airport this afternoon. I carry two phones - I like to keep a personal handset for, you know, my personal...
Richard Thomas, please resign.
Talkback "We've worked with BT and Phorm and we are not going to take any punitive action at this stage" One question, why? How can you possibly justify that statement? When tens, even hundreds of thousands...
RE:BBC threatens iPlayer hackers with mild annoyance
Blog Comment The encryption may be technically worthless, but it's legally significant. Now, anyone who wants to download iPhone files without an iPhone has to "crack" encryption to use the file. Cracking...
Will iPhone 2.0 be more business-friendly?
Roundup Ahead of the Worldwide Developers Conference, ZDNet.co.uk looks back on what Apple has done to attract business users to its handset
RE:BBC threatens iPlayer hackers with mild annoyance
Blog Comment From my point of view, I see a television in much the same way that I see a media player. They are basically just there to display something. I dont have any DRM in my television in Australia, so I...
Real approaches to virtual security
Feature Amid all the hype around virtualisation, security shouldn't take second place, experts warn
Amazon blames outage on complicated systems
News The company has blamed its complicated infrastucture for a site outage that left Amazon.com inaccessible to many US visitors on Friday
Watchdog rules out punishment over Phorm trials
News The Information Commissioner's Office says no action will be taken over leaked documents detailing controversial ad-serving trials between BT and Phorm
Over reaching a bit here!
Talkback Although I do not generally subscribe to the theory that 'I've got nothing to hide' .........., in this case Richard Stallman seems to be overstating the case. It seems to me that, like mobile...
FTC plans formal investigation of Intel
News The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation that will explore the chipmaker's business practices
xG's unclear communications
Blog I'm finding it increasingly difficult to know how to handle xG, the Florida based but London listed wireless data company with a breakthrough technology it's kept out of public scrutiny for many...
Stallman attacks Oyster's 'unethical' use of Linux
News Free-software advocate Richard Stallman says open source is being used in the Oyster-card system to 'smother the freedom of the people of London'
RE:BBC to stream channel live
Blog Comment My immediate concern is the effect on my broadband service {already subject to considerable downgading (throttling, shaping, contention issues) regardless of my actual useage} as a result of the...
Stallman comments on the Oyster
Blog After our coverage of London's Oyster card, which uses Linux for its online payment system, we had a response from Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation. The original...
BBC threatens iPlayer hackers with mild annoyance
Blog With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, the BBC's iPlayer has provoked a chain of events with as much predictability as a Bond movie. The plot is simple: the BBC wants to do its...
RE:Worth upgrading to 3G iPhone?
Blog Comment One of the other issues that even Steve Jobs highlighted when the original iPhone was launched without 3G was the impact on battery life. Responding to questions on why Apple hadn't gone 3G from...
HP, Acer settle patent case
News Patent-infringement lawsuits aiming to stop Taiwan-based Acer exporting PCs to the US have been resolved via a confidential settlement
Microsoft readies Windows Embedded 'Quebec'
News The software giant is working on a Vista-based successor to its Windows XP-based embedded operating system, scheduled for release in 2010
Stark warning as UK faces cybercrime boom
News A report by the Serious Organised Crime Agency has warned of the growing danger from international gangs of online and credit card fraudsters
Committee urges gov't database prudence
News The Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended the government should vow to collect only essential data on people and hold it only for as long as is necessary
Tech giants plan WiMax patent pool
News Six technology companies are teaming up to jointly license patents that cover WiMax in an effort to prevent costly royalty rates that might deter adoption of the technology
Emerging markets want feature-packed phones
News Phone manufacturers must find ways to squeeze more features ontp lower-priced phones to capture tech-savvy consumers in emerging nations, says NXP Semiconductors
RE:BBC to stream channel live
Blog Comment You can watch iPlayer content without a licence, as long as it is not "live" content. So the new service as and when it arrives will need a licence, but the current iPlayer doesn't. There's a bog...
