Posts by Matthew

iPhone VoIP tussle heats up

cool?

so buy a iphone on contract, then use skype, and you get a free phone pretty much?

Why the iPhone's megapixelage alone won't matter

They are still important

They need to be at least 3.2 to look decent as a computer desktop. Im sure if a mobile phone company has gone to the trouble of making a 3.2mp camera the the chances are it will have decent quality optics.

Firefox 3.0 ekes ahead of Internet Explorer 7 in Europe

IE 6 shameful?

Nazi's at work keep us on IE 5, EVEN though it's incompatible with some of our in house designed systems.

US judge bars teen 'sexting' charges

well...

I guess there's likely to be at least one reasonable judge in a country with +300m population..

LibDems want gov action on killer lorries of death

Retarded drivers

A bad workman always blames his tools.. seriously.. it doesn't take a degree to realise the bridge is too low for your vehicle... or to stop if their isn't a bridge even IF the friendly sat-nav insists their is..

Acer sued for shipping Vista-book with GB of memory

wtf is it with everyone bleating on about osx

Having a MacBook Pro I can safely say that it's NO more reliable than windows Vista, and if you tried to run anything on OSX with 1gb of ram you would be contemplating throwing your shiny mac out of the nearest window

French 3M workers barricade boss in office

epic

They have wardrobes in their offices? WTF

You have to admire the French sometimes

Police union leader calls for 'killer games' sales ban

erm..

So everyone who plays these games is an addicted killer?

When will they learn that its a symptom not a cause.

I'm sure they watch violent movies too. Perhaps they should ban every movie with a shooting scene in it?

Sony-Ericsson warns of handset slump

Crappy phones lately too

Im still sticking to my K800 until another good one comes along

British International Motor Show cancelled

since BL was created

there have been NO good cars

Apple proves: It pays to be late

@ Ted the Moron

Of course Mega pixiles are a indication of quality you retard - if you had a *really good lens* and a 1mp camera then you're never going to harness the full potential of the lens are you? You need BOTH. I.E, a K series SE. Oh and the iphone Camera sucks balls anyway compared to other phones in the price range.

Great article by the way!

Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook

pity about the screen resolution

Looks ok apart from that and the price..

I have a 14" aspire laptop with a 4hour battery that I picked up for NZ$600 NEW. Sure it doesn't have the portability but I can't help but feel that since this eeeeeeeee is costing more then its really a small laptop rather than a netbook

Privacy campaigner vows legal challenge to Google Street View

It's great

Well we have it in New Zealand.. Very useful especially since its on my phone. if your looking for an address you see a picture of it etc so no need to squint at letter boxes to find the right house :)

Vista to XP 'downgrade' lawsuit revised

I don't understand

It is an UPGRADE so you should pay.. Having XP Pro on my Desktop and Vista Ultimate on my laptop I can definitely say Vista is utte crap

Nvidia trapped in x86 pipe dream

cheap solution

BUY AMD =D

Apple Mac-sprucing bores fanbois

gay keyboards

Well our boss has a "mac only" policy, and that being the case I had to but 5 mac book pro's 17", which will go to waste on data entry mainly.. erm.. yeah.. and the keyboards.. no delete key, no keypad.. wtf..

Its not like no one with a mac ever used excel is it?

LG 830 "Spyder" phones recalled for dropping 911 calls

in the car?

Perhaps she wasn't near one of the windows & in a valley? I know in some parts where I live (New Zealand) GPS is patchy at best

'Vista Capable' plaintiffs seek class action revival

greater good?

Then thing is.. no one wanted vista once they saw how crap it was anyway, So in a way they were saving their own customer from a nightmare. perhaps the customers should be thanking them?

Ten of the best... noise-isolating earphones

sony?

I love my EX series 'phones

Congress mulls stringent data retention rules

and yet many home users don't even know how to put a password on their router

Im sure this will work great. will it be a crime when your hard drive fails then? or a crime not to have DHCP enabled?

Taliban man loves his iPhone

watchout

they'll be ibomb apps coming soon

Elevator music files for Chapter 11

well...

They had to face the music sometime!

Big labels or Google - who is the songwriters' worst enemy?

He sounds dead

You need to move with the times, I seriously doubt that record sales will increase within the next 10 years, but they will have to find alternative revenue. If songwriters won't accept that, buy say "how dare they dictate my life etc....) then they will be sleeping in the gutters I guess. Its the consumer that sets the rules..

I also don't feel that music quality has decreased, It seams just as bad for the most part, with the few good groups just as good

Windows 7 UAC flaw silently elevates malware access

high??

Off is more likely, I don't see how people can live with it

Exploding mobile phone kills Chinese man

lithium bombs?

maybe the terrorists will be making them next? It sounds like you just need to give them a shake to make them go bang

Windows 7 UAC shutoff 'bug' leaves Microsoft unmoved

good

they have made it easier to turn off windows own built in nagware system - UAC. they be applauded for it.

Seven Japanese poisoned by blowfish 'nads

the sea fight's back

against its worst enemy - JAPAN :)

Apple to pay $22.5m for scratched iPods

wtf

they came with cases back then... did people think they were for fun?

Opera sings praises of Microsoft-browser statement

Stupid

I use FF, but even so having IE is still better than any other browser like opera or safari. I hope they're going to stop apple shipping safari with apple's?

It's going to be quiet a hassle to get windows started in the EU now.

1) Go to another computer

2) Download Web Browser

3) Buy flash disk

4) copy Browser to Flash disk

5) Go back to original computer

6) Install Browser

Yeah.. great step forward.

EU says Microsoft violated law with IE on Windows

heh amazing

Even if you "uninstall" IE, in XP it still magicly appears if you check your email, or do a windows update. grrr. Good on the EU

LG shows off quad-band GSM watchphone

I think...

I would rather have one of those cool looking SE watches that integrate into your existing mobile that a stand alone device like this.

Nokia 'Curse of Silence' SMS exploit uncovered

Not new

Nokia phones are full of such bugs.

I remember at school, having great fun crashing people's Nokia phones just by sending them a too-long business card thingie. causing a buffer overflow whenever they tried to open the message

Glastonbury new-agers protest WiFi

private wifi?

So will they be campaigning to take that down too? I have a pretty serious amp on my setup ;-)

Perhaps the council should give out free foil hats!

NEC, Nissan lob $1.1bn at electric car battery biz

As if Lithium wasn't expensive enough

Well this will put the price of notebooks/net books up.

As if lithium wasn't already in high demand!

Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905 eight-megapixel cameraphone

I still love my k800i

All SE's new phones are crap :-( I bought my SE K800i brand new.. and now years later they still haven't come out with a better model.

Mine still has good 3.2mp camera, xeon flash, email, internet, google maps, messenger, *JOY STICK*,

a headphone/charger connector on the bottom where it should be, good mp3/movie player

hrmm.. why would you "upgrade"?

Get a new k800i, and you'll be much happier and richer too! If you want a 8mp camera then get a proper one, over 3.2mp pixles are meaningless unless your printing A4 sized pictures

iPlayer chief pushes tiered charging for ISPs

WTF?

How is 20gb used in the iplayer application different from 20gb used from bit torrent/gaming?

If you pay $$ for a service then that's what you should get, and if the ISP's can't deliver then they should raise prices until S=D.... Do none of them do econ101 any more?

Man faces $52k bill after voicemail breach

Bugger...

Well I'm with Vodafone NZ, and I just put a $200 cap on my bill, so phone just stops any services that are chargeable (I.e. free minutes and texts still apply) when the bill reaches $200.

Has saved me from some big bills sometimes :-)

(due to our data being 10c/kb until recently this year)

More regulation in this industry is needed.

Battery builders beg for $1bn

RE: AC

I'm thinking NiCad due to Lion batteries being so unstable, and also the fact that there is a severe shortage of lithium, oh and also price.

Though, I think ultimately some smart cookie will invent a cleaver way of making liquid H viable..

But: the future is definitely not Lithium.

New York 'iPod tax' incites media bleating

stupid!

Taxing a product that's already over-priced considering that their competing with P2P, which offers the same service (sometimes higher quality, and DRM Free) for FREE.

All that's going to achieve it put more people out of work (Artists etc.)

Electric car maker in 'urgent financial distress'

hope they don't get it

The reason they're in trouble is because their car's suck :-). Atleast Merc/Honda make decent eco-cars if your into that sort of thing

Netbook SSD usage to fall under 10% in 2009

Ipods?

Remember the old CF sized HDD's in ipod mini's. Im sure if they beefed up the capacity of those it would be perfect for net books.

Plod hopes Bluetooth messages will stem drinking

And this works how?

It assumes that

1) People have BT on 24/7

2) People actually accept a random BT device to connect to their phone (unlikely)

Plus in my experience no one without an IT degree can get BT to work in the first place :-D

Perhaps if they spent the money on extra police? just a thought...

Lego terrorist threatens democracy

investment

That's gotta be worth something in a few years time

Biz travelers howl over US gov RFIDs

typical

All these untried, unproven "security" measures just make it easier for anyone with technical know-how to get into countries that it was previously.

Bittorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers

what a load of crap

Just do what every other industry does... increase the cost until supply = demand... and the extra revenue should be ploughed into fibre optic cabling

Danish ISP ordered again to block Pirate Bay

Will they ever learn?

Apart from the fact its as easy as pie to work around these "blocks" if they do ever shut town tpb then people will just go somewhere else

US Army in $50m video game upgrade

Great

Perhaps they should just settle the next conflict in Call of Duty 4? Winner takes all..

Would be alot cheaper

Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime

15 mins?

Now i'm not a vista lover - i uninstalled it from my laptop but even so, Vista business never took longer than 5 mins to load - and that was on my sony t-250 which has only 1ghz ULV processor and crappy low power disc and 533mhz RAM. To get a 15 mins they must be trying to run it on some old P3's or someting

Hitler had one ball: Official

no balls

That's why he shot himself XD

Inmate hacked prison network, broke into employee database

Catch 22..

If it wasn't connected to the internet in the first place then it wouldn't need regular updates....

Still.. I guess the best of the best IT people don't work in US prisons....