Last weekend, the missus brought it to my attention that Borders had started to sell their own eBook reader in-store. This comes at a time when Amazon have had the market to themselves for ages with their Kindle before the Apple iPad made its recent entrance and the launch of the iBooks application on the …
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Jun 25 2010
Digital Number Plates – Distracting or Practical?
It seems these days that almost everything is going digital. Posters are being replaced with flat screens with animated advertising and even tables in food courts have screens built in with advertising. The last place you might expect to see advertising would be on the number plates of your car. Apparently, California is considering the introduction of …
Jun 04 2010
Would You Pay for News Content?
The Murdochs and the Jobs of the world have you believe that people would be inclined to pay for news content. Murdoch has the most to lose as his empire is heavily reliant on traditional print media whilst Jobs has the most to gain in the digital arena. What it comes down to is whether or not …
May 21 2010
Timeshifting Television – Intelligent Media Consumption
A little while back, the missus and I decided to get the Foxtel IQ2 as we had bought a full high-definition television and wanted to make full use of it. Also, with the demands of work and the incredible timing of phone calls at home when watching live, it proved difficult at times to catch …
May 20 2010
IMAP vs POP3 – My Conclusions
Well, it’s been three months since I bit the bullet and stopped using POP3 in favour of using IMAP instead. If you want to read about my plans, you can check out IMAP > POP3 – Moving to the Cloud. In a nutshell, I wanted to have all of my mail available wherever I went …
May 15 2010
Google Caught Short on Wi-Fi Network Privacy
A couple of articles have surfaced over the last few days concerning Google and its collection of WiFi network information when conducting its Street View activities. One such article detailing Google’s response and admission of its actions has me scratching my head. Alan Eustace, a senior vice president at Google, was quoted as having said: …
Apr 18 2010
Steam vs Retail – Which is Best?
Today I was having an online chat with a gaming friend through Steam as to which game they might buy next (which turned out to be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2) and where they could get the best bang for their buck. Obviously, Steam was one option on the table but the other considerations …
Apr 05 2010
Selling Wikipedia Articles – Smart, Stupid or Shameful?
I came across an article on Neowin earlier today and was intrigued by not only the concept but the fact that somebody would actually undertake such an act. In a nutshell, a company has taken to copying Wikipedia content, publishing and binding them and then selling them to the public. The interesting thing is that …
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