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The Schmoozer: UK military declares war on Anna K
News The Schmoozer thinks the world should be told. The new government Net security force, the National High Tech Crime Unit (see last week's Schmoozer), couldn't make it to the UK's top security conference this week, despite such pressing issues as...
[April 27, 2001, 14:29]
The Schmoozer: Last Straw for the evil hacker underground
News Broadband just isn't taking off, the de facto monopoly argues, though the Schmoozer notes it might have something to do with the extortionate prices BT charges -- the highest in Europe. The plan entails turning its famous red boxes into base...
[April 20, 2001, 15:45]
News Schmooze: Of Microsoft and Meta Pads
News Tuesday saw the Schmoozer crashing the House of Commons where a parliamentry select committee quizzed leading lights from the world of IT. The Schmoozer hates to think what will happen when the processor in this thing burns a hole through the...
[February 8, 2002, 12:12]
News Schmooze: Pac-Man Linux gobbles Microsoft
News The Linux operating system may pose many problems for competitors such as Microsoft, but it hadn't occurred to the Schmoozer that one of them was the GPL's resemblance to Pac-Man. What the Schmoozer would like to know though, is do those fancy i...
[June 22, 2001, 17:56]
News Schmooze: Chips learn to communicate
News Intel unveiled a good number of new products and initiatives this week at its Developer Conference, many of which verge on the incomprehensible to an average Joe like the Schmoozer. The Schmoozer's admiration of British Telecommunications Group...
[March 1, 2002, 16:36]
News Schmooze: The week it rained executives
News The Schmoozer feels rather sorry for those chief executive types -- it must be stressful laying off tens of thousands of your own workers. At last week's Symbian Developer Expo the new Nokia 7650 and Sony Ericsson P800 were both on display...
[May 3, 2002, 16:01]
News Schmooze: Look ma, no wires!
News What's more surprising to the Schmoozer is that Telstra is so desperate that it would stoop to rigging some measly online popularity contest. Gaming console rumble-packs may cause your hands to turn the colours of the Union Jack, but in the...
[February 1, 2002, 13:05]
News Schmooze: They're watching you...
News The Schmoozer can't imagine, however, that AskJeeves will easily part with all that glorious personal information, though -- after all, they paid good money for it, and times are tough these days. What the Schmoozer would like to know is, why would...
[May 25, 2001, 16:29]
News Schmooze: The robo-onslaught begins
News The Schmoozer wonders if Sony really knows what it's getting into here -- surely it's only a matter of time now before such "toys" develop superbrains and rise up against their creators. The Schmoozer's guess: it's all part of the efforts of Scott...
[November 9, 2001, 17:36]
News Schmooze: Bill Gates brings on the lurve machine
News Declarations of love, proposals of marriage, Dear John letters and of course the odd bit of smut are doubtless all flying through the air around the Schmoozer's head even as he writes. The Schmoozer is content to think that .Net is really a sort of...
[February 15, 2002, 17:06]
News Schmooze: Bert really is evil
News Next the Schmoozer expects to see a 50-meter-high Animal wreaking havoc through London's streets, like that scene in The Muppet Movie. As one way of ensuring that everybody on the Internet knows you're a dog, the Schmoozer would suggest mandatory...
[October 12, 2001, 15:26]
News Schmooze: Gigahertz gigabattle
News In a different report, the Schmoozer is told that a recent IE patch disabled another online banking site because it changed the way object tags were handled. Particularly, the Schmoozer imagines, with the fact that a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 only narrowly...
[April 5, 2002, 17:23]
News Schmooze: Microsoft gets itself off the hook
News The Schmoozer does wonder, though, how long it will be before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is broadened to make these kinds of exploits into a capital crime. The Schmoozer supposes that this makes BT a big success, at least for one person.
[November 2, 2001, 16:40]
News Schmooze: Thumbs up to 3G auctions, says NAO
News The more money you pay us, the more freedom you get," said Microsoft technical product manager Allen Nieman -- or that was what it sounded like to the Schmoozer, anyway. In other evil monopoly news, BT Anytime is thinking of changing its name to BT...
[October 19, 2001, 17:34]
News Schmooze: China gives up software piracy
News Amstrad might be about to take you on a trip down memory lane by porting Sinclair games to your mobile phone, the Schmoozer hears. The Schmoozer started to get a little weirded out by the autobiographical computer code, though.
[December 7, 2001, 17:07]
News Schmooze: Hacker attacks and Amazonion profits
News What would it achieve, the Schmoozer wonders, other than giving AOL a non-Microsoft platform for its service -- which, incidentally, it already had in the form of Gateway's failed "Touch Pad" Web appliance.
[January 25, 2002, 17:36]
News Schmooze: The end of the merger marathon
News There's definitely something sleazy about this, but the Schmoozer still doesn't find it as irritating as those DHTML ads that wait until you start reading a Web page and then interrupt everything with an animated commercial.
[March 22, 2002, 13:06]
News Schmooze: Goodbye Segway, hello flying exoskeleton
News Even though the Schmoozer did his bit to boost Moet and Chandon's first-quarter turnover, he won't allow his journalistic integrity to be compromised -- and BT would be wrong to expect favourable coverage in return.
[January 18, 2002, 13:25]
News Schmooze: Welcome to Ghost Comdex
News The Schmoozer is still a bit jet-lagged after getting back from a week in Las Vegas at the annual schmoozefest they call Comdex. The place seemed strangely empty this year, and the main hall, emptied of the rich-blooded dot-coms of recent years...
[November 16, 2001, 17:11]
News Schmooze: Lamp-like iGadget rings in the new year
News Here it is, 2002, and the Schmoozer was expecting video phones and shuttle tickets to the moon for Christmas. Instead, what do we get but a sort of odd-looking table lamp of a computer attached to a half-volleyball, courtesy of Steve Jobs.
[January 11, 2002, 16:37]
