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Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog I know this might qualify as a journalist rant - (actually there is no doubt about it) but sometimes you just have to let it out. I am not sure who I am more annoyed at HP or electrical store Curry’s.
[December 5, 2007, 12:17]
Oh, Reggie Bosanquet, why did you go away?
Blog Make it like a Bladerunner replicant, and we can relate without reservation - well, if it's not busy trying to rip our head off by our nostrils or blow us away with some heavy hand artillery. But the main news reader is just wrong - and the strange...
[October 25, 2006, 18:04]
NCC grasps at straws to save telecom consumers in limbo- Part 1
Blog It is a rip off. The manner in which some of them rip off their customers’ phone credits leaves very few people in doubt that a grand design to rob helpless, unprotected Nigerian subscribers is being secretly executed by most of these network...
[March 10, 2008, 9:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One of the intriguing aspects of the mobile-roaming rip-off is the way it has exposed a fundamental flaw in regulation. Friday 20/10/2006 There is no European telecomms regulator, no Euro-Ofcom. There are various standards bodies such as ETSI...
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Any week that starts with me having to rip the top off my PC is not going to go smoothly, but, nevertheless, have great fun with a new video card, Motion Picture from Advanced Technologies Manufacturing Ltd.
[August 2, 1996, 18:34]
Digital asset management - guts versus gloss
Blog Starting the week off with a whole load of tech news to digest, I was tempted (for no good reason) to let rip on the digital asset management industry this morning and voice my own loudly vented spleen in no uncertain terms.
[February 16, 2009, 11:11]
Wednesday: Microsoft changes its spots
Blog Like any big company, Microsoft suffers from the relentless onslaught of drab rip-off emails, and it has anti-spam filters in place. And so, driven to distraction by the sheer cheek of it, Microsoft has pulled on its underpants over its trousers...
[June 20, 2003, 17:11]
Torrential abuse
Blog So he's said that until they take this site down, he won't rip off any more DVDs. Fun thing about the story when you poke around in the blogs is that he's chucked his toys out of the pram because some site is ripping him off pretending to be him.
[December 19, 2007, 9:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Go and rip the back off your Aunt Glenda's telly instead. A computer monitor generates roughly that many volts, and all you have to do is take the back off, stick a lead under the big rubber sucker that's there to stop people sticking leads into...
[May 31, 2002, 11:19]
Atom(ic) power, no its not 50's/60's retro !
Blog We're talking Rip Van Winkle hibernation mode here. Loooooow powered in the Industrial market is defined as something that is less than 5 watts, if you had to, you could run it off a small battery. It has a new power-down mode that literally turns...
[June 4, 2008, 5:44]
Friday
Blog They might pause to rip it to shreds with their teeth. If Microsoft had announced the move 30 days in advance; if it had provided the simplest of utilities to archive old messages onto the users' PCs; if it had treated its millions of users with...
[July 26, 2002, 14:40]
ITN thrown out of iPhone press conference for 'being rude'
Blog Apparently, the interviewer expressed some negative thoughts about the details of the 18 month contract - my informant reckons the word 'rip-off' was used - and the film crew was immediately shown the door.
[November 9, 2007, 10:48]
Thursday
Blog Ignoring recent conniptions in the world of digital content, most copyright law is sensible, by and large: you can use other people's stuff if you stick to the rules and don't try to rip them off, and those rules are well defined and logical.
[November 15, 2002, 15:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If only all the users behaved like that, though: news of the price cut was greeted by some as a rip-off. Thursday Some good news on broadband! Blueyonder, Telewest's 512k cable modem service, just got cheaper.
[May 4, 2001, 16:02]
Tuesday: SCO plays King Kong
Blog Universal decided that it was a rip-off of King Kong, and proceeded to launch huge lawsuits at everyone involved. Tuesday 17/06/2003 I've been avoiding the SCO Versus The World story: there's no shortage of outraged punditry to choose from, and in...
[June 20, 2003, 17:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I say mine - "If you gave better technical support and had better products, people might consider them better value for money and be less inclined to rip them off" and our time is up. Phone call from a close friend saying 'Help!
[October 11, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's the company saying that "functional equivalence" needs people to "go far beyond interoperability" — in other words, when you say you want to work with us you really want to rip us off, so we're not going to even let you start.
[April 28, 2006, 18:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Or it's another sign of Bubble 2.0, and we'll all be back next year trying to rip off our mate's VHS tapes with a dusty old Amstrad VCR and flaky BNC to BNC leads. Tuesday 10/10/2006 It was rumoured last week and it's true today: Google's bought...
[October 13, 2006, 19:35]
Extortion on the waves
Blog I have been at parties with mobile phone executives who openly laugh about the rip-off of data roaming charges. The keynotes were full of standard issue happy videos of happy young people doing happy young things with mobile devices, socially...
[September 27, 2009, 18:46]
Atom Power - part 2
Blog Especially the C6 mode (I called it Rip Van Winkle) described earlier. They pretty much had abandoned the embedded market previously when they off-loaded their Xscale, the legacy 8051 line and the 960 special processors.
[June 6, 2008, 4:59]
