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Ex-Apple Exec Denounces DRM
Mike Evangelist, who used to be Director of Product Marketing at Apple won’t stand for DRM of any kind. This quote rather amused me: They can all take their DRM, and their broadcast flags, and their rootkits, and their Compact Discs that aren’t really compact discs and shove them up their bottom-lines.
New Google Feature
Google seem to have sneaked in an extra feature to their web search that suggests possible alternative searches. It devises other searches based on synonyms of the search terms, which is pretty clever. There is an extra option added to the page list, like so:
Gmail Goes to Infinity (Plus 1)
Having received a bashing in the press this week due to all the other free email providers giving away 1GB accounts, Google has pulled back into the lead by increasing the storage on their Gmail accounts to Infinity+1. Of course it’s April 1st, so this could be a wind-up. But then again, they launched Gmail [...]
New Orange Smartphone
Orange have launched the latest model in their SPV line of SmartPhones. It’s the same device O2 have been marketing for a while now under their XDA range. The M2000 is a PDA with a phone built in, which, in my opinion is a pretty poor design idea. Converge my data, not my devices! Link
Dirty Water
We’re all drinking dirty water, or so Simon Gawne of StreamShield would have us think. In this month’s PC Format magazine, he compares the current ISP industry to that of the water industry 100 years ago where water was delivered without any purification or filtering. StreamShield produce a network content filtering appliance which he believes [...]
Twitter: jamesholden
- wishes the @thinkvisibility team best of luck for the day, sad to be missing it
- Grr... bank just cancelled my credit card because they can't comprehend recurring transactions in different countries >:-(
- Morning all! I'm back after a lazy, net-free week off. 'Sup everyone?
- "Mugging benefit... up to £40 per day?" ... I know they're laid back in the Caribbean but how long should it take to mug somebody?
