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I'm a long-time user of Apple products, going back as far as the Apple ][ and more recently with an iPod Nano. I wouldn't regard myself as a fanboy but rather appreciative of good design. However, I'm amazed at the things Apple is getting away with at the moment - things which I think are plain wrong. My issues are
I know most of the readers of GNC are based in the USA and will have never heard of Guy Kewney, but I guarantee you that every single UK reader over the age of 40 will know who Guy is and be saddened to hear that he passed away this morning aged 63. He'd been suffering from bowel and liver cancer.
The BBC reports that the a team of scientists from Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy have found three new species of tiny creatures living over 2 miles down in the Mediterranean Sea. It's so deep and dark there's almost no oxygen whatsoever and although only 1mm in size, this is the first time that anything other than bacteria have
The Press Complaints Comission (PCC) has censured a blogger for posting unsubstantiated comments on the website of a print publication, The Spectator. This is the first time that the PCC has censured a newspaper or magazine over a journalistic blog. The PCC regulates the behaviour of the press in the UK and holds them to an Editors' Code of Practice
On Saturday, Tesco emailed the users of its internet phone service to tell them that the service was being closed down at the end of April. Although it's certainly not the only VoIP outfit in the UK, it's one of the few who have sold directly into the domestic market and are a household name. Tesco is a major supermarket
A salutory tale for anyone, particularly in the UK with an ISA, but good advice generally - watch those interest rates. In the UK, there's a tax-free saving scheme promoted by the UK government called the "Individual Savings Account" or ISA. It's there to try and get people to save money and because it's tax-free, there are limits on what
It appears that people aren't the only ones enjoying HDTV. The BBC reports that cephalopods - that's octopus, cuttlefish and squid to you and me - rate high definition television over the standard. The basis is that researchers often use TVs to show animals pictures of things like food or threats to measure their response to the thing. In this case, the researchers found that