Posts by Andrew Johnson

Nokia, Nintendo and Sony struck in wireless patent spat

When will it end

I think everybody agrees that if you come up with a design for something then that design should be protected.. but an abstract idea like this ??

I'll patent the idea of breathing then sue everybody...

Come on industry.. grow up!

Aussie convicted over Simpsons sex pics

Did somebody turn on the crazy switch this weekend ?

Between this and the Scoripons Album cover it seems like weas a race need to make a decision between protecting children and just plain stupidity. Perhaps if people spent more time looking out for our children and less time trying to find a way of prosecuting others for having pictures of fictional cartoon characters having sex then maybe there would be less abused children in the world..

Oh, but I forgot it'sa lot easier to block a website and waste time in court than to go out and visit at risk families and protect children from being abused or killed.

Wireless links to be trialled in Gulfstream flight controls

Lets hope not Bluetooth

Searching for blutooth devices.....

Would you like to pair with Rudder, please enter passcode....

Lets hope they remember to set them as authorised! ;)

Unicaresoft loses MSNLock case against Microsoft

Ridiculous

So, it's ok for http://msnicon.com/ to exist ?! because they add to MSN, but not MSNlock.

Aren't people more likely to use MSN if they know that can fit parental control around it!

I'll stick with Yahoo Messenger, at least Microsoft isn't getting involved there ;)

Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage

Ok.. why don't people just check!!!

Instead of speculating....

[root@email ~]# telnet mailin.blueyonder.co.uk 25

Trying 195.188.53.99...

Connected to mailin.blueyonder.co.uk.

Escape character is '^]'.

220 exim8.blueyonder.co.uk ESMTP Exim 4.68 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:12:02 +0000

quit

221 exim8.blueyonder.co.uk closing connection

Connection closed by foreign host.

And :-

[root@email ~]# telnet smtpin.ntlworld.co.uk 25

Trying 81.103.221.10...

Connected to smtpin.ntlworld.co.uk.

Escape character is '^]'.

220 ESMTP server ready

214-This SMTP server is a part of the InterMail E-mail system. For

214- information about InterMail, please see http://www.openwave.com

They obviously have a mixture of technologies as any large ISP would.

3 drags rivals into court over number porting

Never again on 3

I migrated from Orange to 3 when orange started putting the "home page" on their phones and removing useful functionality I actually used. I was misled about 3's data services when I switched. they are about the worst in the uk.. maybe if all you want to do is send email or surf the web, but some of us use other standard protocols, like vpn's or ssh and 3's network does not permit that. It never has and as i left about 6 weeks ago it still didn't..

I also had a call from them saying try the "X-Series Silver - it's better and will do everything I want" like hell.. I tried to connect to the the internet via my laptop and I got a web page saying "can only be done from the handset" it took me over a week to get my services back, and 2 months for them to sort the billing out. They were not the cheapest and are only now getting anywhere with the prices with the new mix&match service. I hate their customer services (and I've had to call them a lot)

So I moved to T-Mobile, and it was like somebody had opened the gates and let me out. Good customer service (so far all in the UK!), good call quality, and fantastic data access !

I have also used O2 & Vodafone, and I like both of those.. infact I nearly went for O2 this time, but T-Mobile had the deal I wanted with the N95.

I'm never looking back !!!