GE (General Electric) has announced today that they have achieved a major breakthrough in disc storage technology. They claim to have created a form of holographic storage, which allows a jaw-dropping 500 gigabytes of information to be stored on a single disc – no bigger than a regular DVD – Read on….
Thinking of getting your new netbook with Windows 7 installed? You MIGHT want to think again!
Microsoft are taking a massive gamble, by shipping a heavily restricted version on Windows 7 on new netbooks. The Windows 7 ‘starter’ OS will only allow you to (wait for it) run THREE applications at a time and will have many other features stripped! To use the operating system properly, you will have to take your newly-purchased netbook, surf over to Microsoft and go pay them some more money!
If you liked the idea of being able to use your new kindle to listen to the books you buy, I have some bad news for you. Although YOU PAID for that feature, Amazon have caved in to the Authors Guild and authors will now have the right to block the audio feature being used on their books…
The Apple Macintosh computer is 25 years old tomorrow. Although I was using a Sinclair Spectrum computer at the time, I remember the first time I actually saw the original Apple Macintosh running and was amazed. The machine was just a few months old and it was the first time I had ever seen or ...
Belkin have been found offering people money, to post positive comments about their products on Amazon.com! To get the money (less than a dollar per post), the fake reviewer was told to pretend they owned the product and also to mark any negative comments about Belkin's products as "unhelpful." The blame for this pathetic episode, has ...
I was on Twitter yesterday when Cali Lewis; star of Geekbrief.tv, decided to send a message to her 19,000 Twitter followers. Cali's message was simply: "Is this the new MacBook Pro?" - (with a link to a dodgy looking image) This is how the 'VIRAL PR' Apple are ...
Everything announced by Apple today was so heavily leaked, there's no need to blog about it! Next!
So, earlier today - exactly 18-months after buying my Nokia N95, it was time to upgrade my phone. I thought long and hard about this and decided; ya know what - I'm gonna keep it! That's right, after a year and a half of stunning pictures and video from the N95's 5-megapixel camera, excellent built-in GPS, ...
Occasionally in life, you meet someone who is at the top of their game. In my opinion, when it comes to netcasting / podcasting – Leo Laporte is ‘the boss!’
My thoughts on the BBC’s OTT publicity of iPhone proviked mas a MASSIVE response!
Rory Cellan-Jones quoted me in his blog and Jeremy Hillman, the Editor of the BBC’s Business and Economics Unit has linked direct to my blogpost. To find out what all the fuss is about read on…
