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Marginalia: A miscellany of musings on the tech that crosses my path

One charger to rule them all

Whenever I go away from home I have to gather together a combination of chargers and cables. There’s the microUSB charger for my phone and the proprietary battery charger for my camera. Then, if I am...

29 June, 2010

Orange’s 2010 festivals gadget – Power Wellies

Every year Orange comes up with some sort of wheeze for music festival season. This year it is Power Wellies. The idea is simple. The boots gather the energy you create while walking round, dancing and...

8 June, 2010

My recent discussions

Virgin Media Freedom Netbook

JW - Mobile broadband is via a dongle rather than internal slot. I didn't get...

23 October, 2009 3 comments

Samsung's Solar Powered mobile phone

Roger - I couldn't agree more. I love the idea of solar energy capture...

14 February, 2009 2 comments

All discussions

Windows Server 2008 drops the ball for Mac compatibility

NanWag : A Windows Server 2008 is being used because the environment that...

16 May, 2012 11 comments

Designing a SharePoint farm: Tiers before bedtime

Really good article. You bring to light a few really good things. However,...

16 May, 2012 2 comments

UK ISPs ordered to block Pirate Bay website

If Piratebay is a crime then so is borrowing a dvd you purchased to a family...

16 May, 2012 10 comments

Windows Server 2008 drops the ball for Mac compatibility

File Services For Macintosh was causing Excel to prompt for Overwriting...

16 May, 2012 11 comments

Adobe move promotes piracy

creative cloud $48/month in the USA, £48/month in the UK ($79). good for the...

16 May, 2012 3 comments

Hackers hold bank to ransom over stolen data

Hello KosGirl, Good question. I've asked Belfius for a response. The latest...

16 May, 2012 2 comments

Hackers hold bank to ransom over stolen data

Have there been any further updates to this story? I can't find any...

16 May, 2012 2 comments

Watchdog: TalkTalk's broadband speed test misled users

I have done 7 speed tests this morning on different speed test tools. They...

16 May, 2012 1 comment

Windows RT browsers and the point of Windows RT

@Mary Microsoft could always send Mozilla a spec sheet and oblige them to...

16 May, 2012 3 comments

Virgin Media: Spotify deal will bring down piracy

Not before time, that people making films,dvd's get whats coming to them....

16 May, 2012 1 comment

Community highlights

BarryGill

Darth Vader brought his own device...

Blog Post A few weeks ago I wrote a blog piece called "Bring Your Own Delusion (BYOD)"....

16 May, 2012 by BarryGill
Jack Schofield

Mobile phone sales dip while smartphones boom

Blog Post Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users fell by 2 percent to 419.1...

16 May, 2012 by Jack Schofield
First Take

HTC One V

Blog Post HTC's One range of handsets comprises three models. There's the flagship HTC...

16 May, 2012 by First Take
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Contribute, contract; endorse? Technology reputations

Blog Post Technology companies need to be careful about who and what they're seen to...

16 May, 2012 by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe