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- Three: so near, yet so far
I’m reviewing a 3G mobile phone at the moment - the LG 8120 (right) on sale in the UK from Three, and (so far) what a nice device it is. Compact, lighter than previous 3G handsets I’ve tried, with a sharp screen, plenty of memory and lots of features, it’s the first 3G mobi to [...]
- “My iPod has a personality!” No, really. It doesn’t.
Hats off to the New York Times. It’s got a well-founded reputation for strong tech reporting, but it’s not letting that tradition get in the way of making a serious bid for Dumbest Tech Story of the Year (holder: D. Mail, UK). The piece which will surely take the soggy biscuit is an August 26 [...]
- A grassroots battle where there is no grass
Business 2.0 is on the money about Real’s dumb cut-price, loss-making battle with Apple (see Tosh passim), which will continue to wring the last drops of value from a company surely destined for disaster.
"’Real doesn’t understand it’s fighting a brand battle,’ says Bradley Peacock, president of Chicago-based marketing consultancy Peacock Nine. RealNetworks, with its complicated [...]
- Strachan on the politics of “player unrest”
What Southampton football club lost in Gordon Strachan the manager, the media world gains in Gordon Strachan the pundit and columnist.
He’s always been refreshingly honest on the TV, and his column in the Guardian looks to be shaping up equally well. It’s almost surprising to read something from a genuine football insider that’s been [...]
- Too busy for words
Trendsetters.com highlights “time compression” as a new thing. Of course, we’ve been muttering darkly about the speeding up of the world for some time, but Michael Tchong (Trendscape’s founder) gathers together some interesting examples of how the world is speeding up. Better still - and setting this apart from the more common, technocratic view of [...]
- Looking forward to Paris MacExpo
I might have moved on from the Guardian’s Online section, but I’m still doing Mac-related stuff for them, which I’m jolly happy about. So it’s off to Paris next week, for the Euro Apple Expo, at which something may - or may not - happen.
Personally, last year’s event was notable mainly for two things. [...]
- More from Oslo
M’colleague from GU, Gwladys Fouché, was on holiday when it all kicked off in Oslo, so has either had her hols ruined or made by events there. Either way, she’s been filing some great stuff back for the newspaper. Not least, this:
“The first anyone heard was a crash as the two armed robbers, masked in [...]
- How to steal a masterpiece, in five easy steps
It’s pretty easy to nick a bit of world-famous art from a gallery, apparently.
1/ Identify the masterpiece you fancy.
2/ Get some masks, and a gun (or something that looks like one - you won’t need to fire it, after all. These are art fans, not a hall of boxing fans).
3/ Storm into the gallery [...]
- Now working for Windows users too (I hope)
Running one of the few sites on the web that only really worked on a Mac and Safari was a scream for a while. No, really, it was - although the interview requests were rather thin on the ground. But ultimately it became clear that:
(i) Most people reading this site thought it was decorated with [...]
- Real gets burned with Apple “campaign”
Real really hasn’t got a clue.
The digital media company, a genuine pioneer in streaming audio and video back in the early days of the web, managed to piss its users off over the years by subjecting them to a steady shitstorm of bad, buggy software and an increasingly cynical attitude towards its customers.
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