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Netscape Online And Woolies Target Lads
News Netscape Online: Aimed at the lads, here's what you get. At the launch of its free ISP Tuesday, AOL announced that Netscape Online is joining with high-street retailer Woolworths to distribute the CDs for the service.
[August 24, 1999, 11:20]
Huawei, The Lads...
Blog Comment Oh, there was broadband in the area - but not in our cottages. We could have popped down to Fortrose Library, but settled in the end for the 30 minutes Cloud access per drink offer in a pub. I'm happy to confirm that in general, there's...
[November 20, 2007, 0:32]
Huawei, The Lads...
Blog Comment No broadband on the Black Isle? You must have been well into the sticks. On behalf of the Tourist and Development agencies in the north can I just point out that most small settlements upward will have the opportunity to receive broadband in one of...
[November 19, 2007, 15:03]
Huawei, The Lads...
Blog Hello, I must be going. Back from a week on the Black Isle, twenty miles or so north of Inverness, where I've been enjoying a family event, a lot of zooming around chasing Pictish carved stones, holy wells and RAF Kinloss's excellent choice of...
[November 18, 2007, 14:56]
Mixed Reaction To Netscape Online
News AOL's ISP for the lads went live at midday today in what the service hopes will secure its plans for dominance in Europe. But reaction from industry experts, and the lads of course, was less than enthusiastic.
[August 24, 1999, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The installation team (two lads of sturdy Basildon stock: how come these people never want a cup of coffee or tea any more, but always want to use your loo? The Cable Lads look puzzled. Day off. Turned up for an afternoon of fatherhood with Number...
[April 18, 1998, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The installation team (two lads of sturdy Basildon stock: how come these people never want a cup of coffee or tea any more, but always want to use your loo? The Cable Lads look puzzled. Day off. Turned up for an afternoon of fatherhood with Number...
[April 18, 1998, 7:00]
Are You A Scary Manager?
Talkback My boss is the managing director of the company yet while at work he is just another one of the lads. This part perfectly sums up EXACTLY how he is and why i think he is an amazing boss One of the things subordinates reasonably expect from their...
[September 29, 2006, 18:44]
Buying Coke With Your Mobile Is Virgin On The Bizarre
News While their boss is squabbling over the National Lottery, the lads and lasses at Virgin have come up with the world's first cellular vending machine. Using "dial and drink" technology (I kid you not), the theory goes that you're more likely to be...
[September 22, 2000, 11:53]
Google And The Bendy Jet
Blog It seems that Google has gone and bought another corporate jet, to go alongside the 767 Party Funbus that the lads have had kitted out. An interesting rumour, which I cannot substantiate, has just reached the inbox.
[October 9, 2007, 11:39]
Colossus Misses The Christmas Rush
Blog Now our plucky lads at Bletchley Park are raising a little bit of capital by flogging pieces of the tape used in the challenge, in limited edition envelopes, for a tenner. The Cipher Challenge, run by the National Museum of Computing, was a great...
[January 4, 2008, 16:52]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment I was in a game stop two days after the launch and the guy behind the counter was raving about the song transfer features - two of the lads who worked there we standing in a film queue swapping albums.
[November 25, 2006, 10:15]
ID Card Scheme Under Review
Talkback Bit far fetched until I heard that 2 lads in my neck of the woods had been nearly killed by spiked drinks, apparently just for laughs, both ended up in hospital but the police wont pursue it as it is not assault.ie they can't afford the man power...
[July 12, 2006, 12:46]
Bandwidth Hobbles Net Radio Revolution
News Ginger Media Group, owner of Virgin radio and headed by lads' hero Chris Evans, on Monday announced it is testing technology designed to enable high quality radio broadcasting to mobile computers via the Internet.
[August 17, 1999, 10:36]
Nuggets: Whopping Memory For MP3 Elite
News The Elite MP3 player from US based ADS Technologies, due January, is much more expensive than its rivals at $495 (£302) and comes in a rather girly looking pink metallic case (I was reliably informed it will also be available in a more macho...
[November 17, 1999, 8:14]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I am come on lads, what are they going to do, put now a label on Windowz writing "By Appointment.and expect people to pay more? Whilst some outmoded people honour the MS Empire with titles, millions of IT staffers around the globe (including...
[March 3, 2005, 7:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A correspondent on the sci.space.history newsgroups notes that things started to go wrong when the Australians were communicating with Spirit, then "their snake- and spider-infested telemetry station suffers the all-too-common 'storm' as the...
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But sending the lads in, just because you've no intention of using Microsoft? Wednesday 05/04/2006 Naked PCs are exercising Microsoft - no, not the strippogram variety, but computers with no operating system.
[April 10, 2006, 11:35]
Girls PCs Are Cleaner Than Boys PCs - Research
News Come on lads. Boys are much dirtier than girls when it comes to spreading computer viruses, according to research by Spanish anti-virus company, Panda. The survey "Electronic Plague: The Risk of Spreading Computer Viruses," suggests that females...
[October 6, 1999, 11:27]
IE 7 Or Not To IE 7 That Is The Question My Dear Watson
Member Review Personally, I have nothing against the Internet Explorer browser family, and having used Opera for a long time along side IE, I now have only the one browser and I realise that there will probably be some querky type things that the experts will...
[November 13, 2006, 10:05]
