Pay $100 to tell Mark Zuckerberg where to go!
Facebook appears to know no bounds in its quest to make money from its hapless users. The latest ‘gimmick’ is to charge ‘members’, as Facebook prefers to call anyone or anything that uses its service, is to wallop them up to US$100 to get a message to a stranger. In promoting the service, Facebook Messages, [...]
Seeking sense in censorship
The very thought of wholesale censorship of the internet by governments would appear abhorrent to many in this digital, hyper-connected era, but it hasn’t stop many from trying. Whether for religious, cultural, national security or citizen ‘protection’ reasons, closing down or restricting parts of the Internet may be a futile cause and, in some cases, [...]
Another app store bites the dust
Another nail has been hammered into the coffin of that great hope for mobile operators to fight back – the branded app store. As if the ill-fated demise of the GSMA led Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) earlier this year was not enough warning, some operators persisted in fighting on, with Verizon Wireless being the latest [...]
Going commando!
For those in the know, ‘going commando’ indicates one has not bothered to venture out with underwear in position. For many, this would seem an inexcusable activity, for others, a daily routine. Is it a sign of bravado, is it borne out of necessity, does it feel good or is it simply linked to some [...]
Windows 8 suffering from rejection, already!
It’s hard to believe that within a week of its launch that Windows 8 is getting a bad rap from the very market that Microsoft needs most to support it. TechRepublic and ZD Net Research ran have released details of a study to determine what plans businesses have to deploy Windows 8 – and the results are [...]
No more boohoo at Yahoo!
During her first earnings call as Yahoo President and CEO, Marissa Mayer admitted that the company has failed to exploit opportunities in the mobile segment, pledging dramatic changes moving forward. I’m not sure one of her many predecessors didn’t say the same thing, however, my fondest memories of Yahoo were in the days when it [...]
Will Softbank sprint clear in US market?
It would be a bit rich for AT&T to claim the new Softbank/Sprint/Clearwire hook-up would be gaining an unfair advantage , but it will. No sooner had the announcements by US operator, Sprint, that it would finally be achieving complete control over Clearwire and that Japanese giant, Softbank, would be taking a 70 per cent share [...]
Honey, Apple shrunk my iPad!
I won’t be rushing out to by an iPad Mini. Despite Apple’s remonstrations that it is “not a shrunken down iPad,” it plainly is, and not a really good one either. In typical Apple manner it tries to give the impression that the new form factor is a brilliant, all-original idea, beautifully machined, meticulously constructed, [...]
Wi-Fi warfare
How do you let annoying neighbours know they are annoying you without confronting them or being annoying yourself? You could leave a note in their letterbox, send an anonymous letter, wrap a note around a brick and throw it through their front window or just call out late at night using a handkerchief to muffle [...]
Big boys bumble with mobile
A fascinating article appeared this week in the New York Times questioning the stalwarts of the tech industry being able to cope with the growing dominance of mobile. Companies like Intel and Microsoft made their fortunes from personal computers and Google from people using them to search for things on the internet, but times are a changing [...]