Social Media

Has anyone found a killer Facebook app yet?

That is presuming you are still actually looking. If you look at this article from O’reilly you will see that while the number of subscribers are increasing the number of active users is slowly declining. Meaning that more people are…

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Info

When phone retailers just don’t get it

I went to buy a new phone for my wife today and came away empty handed. My wife shares my philosophy on phones so I was after a very simple one and she had already chosen a nice slim one.…

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Technical

Blu-Ray beware

China’s answer to next generation optical discs has fnally had its first production line opened and earned itself a new name. CBHD (China Blue High-definition Disc) was developed in China by Shanghai United Optical Disc. It has some advantages over…

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Info

SCO Update

Last week SCO faced the day they had tried to avoid when a ruling was finally handed down in the SCO vs Novell case. While they did not lose as much money as they feared the ruling means that they…

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New Media

Dr Horrible

If you are a fan of Joss Whedon’s work (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, etc), and I’m presuming there might be a few in the audience, then make sure you check out Dr Horrible’s sing-a-long blog this weekend. The third episode is…

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blogs

Why blogs are better than newspapers.

There has been a lot of talk over recent years about how online classifieds like Craigslist have been the cause of the decline in the overall revenue and profit of the newspaper industry (some papers still thrive). I do not…

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Net Neutrality

FCC stands up for Net Neutrality

The NY Times is reporting that the FCC has found that Comcast’s aggresive blocking of BitTorrent traffic has violated the FCC’s open access rules. What the penalty will be will not be known until August once the full board has…

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