Putting trees in your icon and linking to news results for ‘Earth Day’ does not make you a noble company. I’d just like my search results please. That is all.
A non-conspiracy theory about why Apple has banned background applications from the iPhone. Battery life. I, for one, find the argument convincing.
You can read the contents of a computer’s memory by plugging in a firewire device. I’ve read of similar attacks with USB, but those have generally been exploits. The firewire problem appears to be part of the design.
If we really have become this kind of society, where anything out of the routinely ordinary is grounds for suspicion, the chilling effect on individuality is going to amount to a positive frost.
Count me among those who thought that RAM lost its contents reliably when it was unpowered. On this basis, I thought that a stolen computer with an encrypted swap file and encrypted home folders ought to be reasonably useless to data-thieves. Except, it seems that it isn’t true. The gory details are here, courtousy of [...]
The Register points out that life is about to get tough for ISPs. What the Reg does not quite put its finger on is this: ISPs have been merrily selling customers ‘bandwidth’ that has been all but theoretical. Now they face the horrible prospect that people other than teens sharing illegal music are going to [...]
For some inexplicable reason Google Earth’s maps of Oxford have been of terribly low-quality for years – so poor that one could not make out even where the roads were, let alone particular buildings. All that seems to have changed – someone has clearly flown over Oxford on a sunny day taking some nice pictures. [...]
Senior French politicians may not use the BlackBerry. We have become very used to storing data in what Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others refer to as “the cloud“. Data stored ‘somewhere on the internet’ – on servers managed by someone else – is terribly convenient. We can access what we need, from wherever we [...]
Steve Jobs makes at least two major presentations each year, one in January and one in June. I’ve written about the January 2007 announcements before. The June ones (made on Monday) seem to have been more an effort in spin than an announcement of new technology. He made much of the fact that games are [...]
There has been considerable astonishment at Apple’s announcement of a version of their web-browser that will run on windows. After all, despite what Apple claims, Safari does not have greatest reputation even among OS X users, and it is not as if Windows users do not have a wide choice of browsers already. All of [...]