Posts by David Lawton

HP doorsteps Apple shoppers at the altar of dreams

Every tech company seems to use Apple as a bench mark. Its an iPhone killer or thinner than a Mac. Funny that.

NHS hospitals told to swallow stronger anti-ransomware medication

Maybe they should start by not using an OS that hides file extensions by default.

'Oi! El Reg! Stop pretending Microsoft has a BSOD monopoly!'

After inspecting the photo's i don't see much Blue, which i thought would be a key ingredient for a blue screen of death.

$329 for a MacBook? Well, really a 'HacBook' built on an old HP

Re: How do I buy a license from Apple?

I'm guessing you would use a Torrent ......

NHS injects tender for PC and peripherals kit with £500m

Until they fix the issue that there core apps are written for Windows the NHS and IT is always going to be a disaster.

Google hopes to sniff out OS X badware

Well when Google has a fleet of over 42,000 Mac's deployed this makes sense. I wonder if any of the other companies with large scale Mac deployments will be itching to use this tool, Facebook have over 13,000 Macs, and IBM have more than 50,000 . I only have a few hundred Mac's deployed, but i will watching this one with interest.

Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell

Why can Microsoft not understand that their GUI's are getting worse , more cluttered, and them having simple interfaces are making things harder to use and to just give us back what the majority seem to want, the XP style start menu. This all started with XP, but at least in that OS you could quickly make it more Windows 2000 style. For example first time you run Control Panel on XP you will get a messy 'Simple Control Panel', one click in the top right and you can select Classic and it stays as Windows 2000 style Classic ( Same in Vista and 7). With file sharing, they introduced 'Simple File Sharing' which made things harder, but with one click i can enable normal file sharing Windows 2000/NT 4 style so i can actually get on with things.

Windows Vista and 7 were worse than XP but were tolerable and you could learn to adjust things to make it act like previous versions and at least had the shiny Areo interface to make things look pleasant. (But still i want a Windows 2000 GUI).

Windows 8.0 was a complete train wreck, and 8.1 practically as bad.

Then we have Windows 10 with its schizophrenic GUI stupid tiles and still so bad people download Classic Shell

Why are Microsoft so out of touch GUI wise? Its not frickin hard. So they are working on a new GUI for holographic interface?! They need to get back to Windows 10 and fix the GUI mess they have made there first!

I'm so glad i explored Linux a few years ago and also got a Mac so i rarely have to suffer the sh*t MS pump out now. No wonder Nadella pleaded with people to love Windows again, its an ugly monster now.

London's Met Police has missed the Windows XP escape deadline

How about they work on moving away from a reliance on Windows. Since a lot of modern programs are browser based if the police invested in moving there systems to the same technology Linux on the desktops could be viable , and would also work on tablets and mobiles. The cost of extended support from Microsoft for XP would make getting Mac Minis on the desks and running Mac OS seem like a cheap option. I dread to think how much money government pay in Microsoft licences.

Microsoft axes 2,850 more Windows Phone, sales staff – a week after Justin Timberlake sang on stage for them

Re: Also a name change-

The problem is that 2% figure is made up from website hit stats from web browsing, i don't run a web browser on my DNS, Asterisk or Apache boxes running Linux at work and I'm sure there are millions of other Linux boxes that will never be recorded too. So its a lot more than 2% in reality, just the stats cannot log them.

Apple Watch craze over before it started: Wrist-puter drags market screaming off a cliff

I bought the first gen Apple Watch on launch day but got the cheaper 38MM Sports one, as i did not know if i would actually use it, but wanted one as i was curious so was less risky on a £299 one.

Now i would not want to be without it, and if it was not for the fact i there will no doubt be a 2nd gen within 2 years i would be down the Apple Store buying the £900 38mm SS space grey one.

I get that some people might not see the appeal or have much use, but every one is different and for me its great. Love using it for Apple pay in shops or getting in and out of the underground, 2 taps on the button and present to the barrier, no getting my wallet out in busy London or messing around with Oyster Cards and tickets.

Its great at filtering the many notifications i get throughout the day, and i like to log how active i am so comes in hand there too. I've used it to answer calls and reply to texts when having busy or messy hands like in the kitchen preparing food. The discrete vibrating as direction cue's when using the sat nav for walking round big cities is handy.

I've use it regularly for controlling music playing via AirPlay around my house, and i like glancing at it and seeing whats next in my calendar.

Yes it does have a few gimmicky things like heart rate sharing, and drawing cocks to friends, but over all it can be a handy devices, and much more useful than a dumb watch which i had not worn for almost 20 years before getting a smart watch.

⌘+c malware smacks Macs, drains keychains, pours over Tor

Now i see why Apple have removed the run apps from 'Anywhere' option in Mac OS Sierra. I don't know why you would run with that option turned on unless the user has been told to by an idiot. Keep Gate Keeper set to App Store and Identified Developers only, if you need an app from else where and absolutely trust them just right click on the app and select Open, then an extra open option appears instead of being blocked with only an OK box. Simple and no need to compromise part of the security.

App-V birthday to you, Win10: Virty tools baked in Anniversary update

I always think of Steve Jobs when i see Microsoft doing this shit. Just go to 1:06 on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G5UUw9puhQ even if you are not a fan of him, that part is amusing.

Why can Microsoft not just do what they did years ago, Windows NT Server and Windows NT Workstation. Need to join it to a domain ? you change the setting, don't? then just don't ever go near that setting.

We don't need Starter, Home, Home Premium, Pro, Enterprise, Eduction, Ultimate and god knows what fu*king else!!

Apple to kill off Mac OS X?

Re: to be fair

Its not moved to OS XI because software version numbers are not decimal numbers.

Ofcom serves up an extra helping of airwaves for Wi-Fi

Simple i turned off the shitty WiFi built into the router and got a £500 Ruckus Wireless AP. These things give extremely good WiFi throughput. Since my 2013 Macbook Air has wireless AC support (thanks Apple :) see its not all shiny shiny) i get very VERY fast wireless speeds.

Microsoft's Azure and Office 365 growth slows

We have 500 users on Office 365. (Almost all on iOS or Mac OS X) Some bits i like other bits make me want seriously rage at Microsoft.

Onedrive? What a F*ckin mess! Dropbox seem to manage it fine but the biggest software company in the world still cannot get it right.

Then on Office 365 we have Word, Excel, Powerpoint, One Note, OneDrive and Outlook that seem to be on all platforms, yet Android, iOS and Mac OS don't seem to get Viso, Publsher, Access or Project.

If they want Office 365 to shine sort out sharing in Onedrive and make all the Microsoft Office suite products platform neutral they brought One Note from being Windows only to other platforms (I'm guessing because Evernote was becoming popular) so no excuse to not do the missing programs. .

Netflix's $1.81 billion Q1 disappoints markets

I love the concept of Netflix and did subscribe for a year in the UK. But i noticed TV shows would just disappear or seasons within a show. It also annoyed me how much better the US version was content wise and so cancelled in the end.

So for me until TV rights are overhauled so that Netflix could show the same shows in all countries and keep them on their service forever its a no from me. I will stick with my private Plex box .

Apple assumes you'll toss the Watch after three years

I would love a new shiney, but my 2012 Macbook Air still runs as well as the day i got it, despite being on 500 cycles the battery is still great, get over 5 hours out of it. Would love a 2013 onwards model as the battery improved significantly on them, but i just cannot justify replacing it.

What do Apple put in the laptop batteries? They are magical. I know people who have bought non Apple laptops after me and they have had to replace them already and they did not last that long to start with.

iPhone SE already on back-order

Having just swapped my iPhone 6 for this new SE i love it. Always preferred the smaller phone so could not wait to get it, and this phone is seriously fast. I don't care if its the same design as the 5S , although i did really like that design. What mattered to me more was it fitting in my pocket easy and being able to use it 1 handed without feeling it was going to fall out of my hand because it is too big (and i have big hands!) With the same processor as the 6s but with less pixels to drive its extremely responsive.

So nice to hold, compact, great battery life, extremely quick and the most affordable iPhone yet. Whats not to like?

Gartner: RIP double-digit smartphone growth. 2016 has killed you

Re: Who are these morons ?

You what? Their PC business is not great? I would not say Apple is in a pickle at all. Quarterly revenue just on the Mac's is around 6 billion dollars or you know around 24 billion dollars a year.

Apple would be extremely well off just on Mac's alone.

and i'm sure i have read in the last 2 years repeatedly that Apple is the only 1 who is experiencing growth in the PC business where as everyone else is declining.

Unpatched stealthy iOS MDM hack spells ruin for Apple tech enterprises

Only up to iOS 9.2 ? I'm guessing the majority are on 9.3 now .

Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage

"Windows Vista drove Microsoft's marketing team to despair, because when they blind tested it on users around 18 months after launch (on hardware capable of running Vista well), the users liked what they saw. They couldn't reconcile the positive experience of using Vista with Vista's noxious reputation. This was the Mojave Experiment, unfairly derided at the time. The lesson from Mojave was that a reputation sticks."

I loved that bit of the article, I remember Vista very well. Struggled to load file shares over the network, unbearably slow, was slower than XP at copying files from disk to disk. Add to that Windows had become very bloated since XP and so most did not have the RAM to run Vista smoothly even acer was pumping out laptops with 512MB ram with a vista sticker on.

Of course by the time vista got to SP2 the major issues had gone, and hardware it was being run out had generally more ram so it was not much worse than Windows 7 then.

But still does not change that Windows has gone down hill since Windows 2000 GUI wise.

Data-thirsty mobile owners burn through 5GB a month

I must be off the charts then as i have a 20GB month usage allowance with EE and some months i run out!

Knackered Euro server turns Panasonic smart TVs into dumb TVs

I tell everyone to get a dumb tv and a smart box. Having youtube on my 2009 Panasonic TV was a novelty at first, but then i found not all youtube videos were available , the remote is slow for typing video names in the search box and now in 2016 those features don't even work. So i got an Apple TV few years back and just Airplay everything off the apps on my shineys, its cheaper than buying a new tv every 3/4 years.

First working Apple Mac ransomware infects Transmission BitTorrent app downloads

Re: Arggggg

OS X's built in anti malware already has the definitions for this in it so should block anybody from getting it now , unless they have told the Mac not to download X Protect updates .

Official: Toshiba pulls out of European consumer PC market

Re: Ah, well

Honestly bite the bullet and get the Macbook Pro, great battery life, best trackpad you will ever use (the gestures are great), magsafe power connector, nice keyboard. I wish i had done it years before i did instead of putting up with shabby laptops from HP, Acer, and Toshiba.

If you find after a few months the Macbook is not for you then they hold their value well and you should get at least 2/3rds of its value back if not more, and if you decide to keep it for many many years it will still hold a large chunk of its value 5 years on. For example a 2012 Macbook Air entry goes for £450ish on eBay now, you can get a brand new 2015 Macbook Air for £850, so its holding its value well. Even broken ones go for over £100 on eBay.

Apple do offer finance too if you wish to spread the payments.

Apple hasn't announced the new iPhone 5SE and pundits already hate it

Re: Those who can't, analyse....

Thats how i feel, so i think i will be swapping my iPhone 6 for an iPhone 5SE, i just prefer the 4" phone size wise it feels better in my hand.

Two-thirds of Android users vulnerable to web history sniff ransomware

Glad i've not got an Android device

I know any OS does and will have holes, even the Apples. But when i look at our UTM's Threat Centre website I'm glad i have an iPhone. The word Android appears way to much in the mobile malware/virus threat list http://www.fortiguard.com/avmobilethreats , in fact it seems to be 9/10 of the threats. Androids biggest downfall is it is too open, and when it comes to something that has my mobile banking apps on and other import things, i don't care that my phone is in a walled garden eco system. I want my data to be safe.

If devices were regularly receiving updates promptly and were supported for a reasonable amount of time (I'm frowning at your Samsung) i might be remotely interested in owning an Android device again, but as it stands i won't even consider them anymore until something changes.

2015's horror PC market dropped nine per cent

Re: Down 10%

I think its a very fair metric now, its a very different world. If it was the Year 1999 for example i would have to boot up my PC or Mac to get on the internet or write a letter. So to only include desktops and laptops then is fine.

Its now 2016, and i don't need them to read the register anymore or to use a word processor. I use my iPhone just as much as my Mac now for viewing websites if not more. My nan has not touched her Windows 7 laptop in over 2 years since i got her an iPad, she's on the iPad every day (normally spending on Amazon). My parents primary internet device is no longer the HP laptop, its their iPads now (they have 1 each) gambling away on the racing post website.

At work we have removed 350 Windows 7 devices and replaced them with 350 iPads over the last 2 years, as they can run Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook , few other apps , and there is a web browser . Suites the needs of those users fine. We have also installed a few hundred Macs too to replace the PCs.

So yeah in short its VERY fair to include iOS and Android devices in, as they are being used for tasks we would have traditionally used a PC/Mac for.

Apple CEO Tim Cook was paid more than $28,000 a day in 2015

Re: Cupertino Tax

Yes that 'tat' that most other manufactures in the industry bench mark them selves on and try to make their products resemble. Its always an iPhone killer, or an iPad killer or a Macbook killer.

I will just keep buying Apple products because i won't tolerate shit anymore, and as soon as you get into the 'not shit' category of products from non Apple manufactures you're into the Apple price territory anyway.

iOS 9 kludged our iPhones, now give us money, claims new lawsuit

My first gen iPad Mini runs very sluggish browsing the web on iOS 9 compared to iOS 7. Apps more or less run fine, its just the web browser part.

So i only use it when traveling now and use my iPad Air 1st gen instead around the house.

I really like the Apple stuff, but the one thing i have always been annoyed about is the lack of being able to take the iPad or iPhone back to a previous version of iOS.

Im more worried this class action might cause Apple to drop support for older products sooner software wise, when what we need is just more control over the updates. Would be great if Apple supported the older iOS's a bit longer and when you update you have the choice of the minor or major version, i.e. iOS 7.1.1 to iOS 7.1.2 or iOS 8.0 . Im guessing that gets hard if they have a new iOS version every year which is just not necessary, they should stop the annual release of iOS and OS X.

Rounded corners on Android phones cost Samsung $548m: It will pay up to Apple after all

Even if you hate Apple, they are responsible for a lot of what we use today, and without them around the market would be very dull. Before the iMac PC's were just ugly boxes (most still are!)

These new Ultrabooks that all the manufactures are pumping out now that are Macbook Air clones use an Intel processor that was designed for Apple by request. That CPU class did not exist, intel made it just for the Air originally.

Smartphones pre iPhone, yeah you know what they were like. My Nokia N95 was much better spec wise compared to the first few gen iPhones, but Apple ran circles around it end user experience and interface wise, and now everyone uses that concept. Even down to 'Slide to unlock' the screen, its simple and nothing to it hey? So why didn't anybody else?

Who were the first to dump serial and parallel ports and go USB only, then everyone else does it?

Who dumped the Floppy and got laughed at, then everyone else drops the floppy ?

Who dumped the DVD/CD drive and now everyone is doing it?

We could even go further back and say we have Excel today partially thanks to the Mac as it came out on the Mac first as thats what Microsoft did in its early days, write software for the Mac with its GUI something Microsoft did not have yet.

They got the recipe correct for the modern tablet, i could go on and on and on, but the point is Apple have had a massive impact on the technology landscape as we know it today, both directly or indirectly and even if you don't have an Apple product , lets say you have an Acer S7 ultrabook and a Samsung Galaxy S6, and a Nexus 7 tablet, do you think they would even be around as you know it without Apple?

and as much as i love Apple products i don't want to see Samsung or other manufactures out of the game, as they keep Apple on its toes and make it keep pushing things to the next step once they have all copied them.

There is a very healthy market at the moment and we as end users have a lot of choice.

If it still works six months from now, count yourself lucky

Thats been my experience too which is why i praise the Mac so much now and moved to Macs at work.

From 2003 to 2012 i had a new laptop every 18 months ish. The battery would be crap after 12 months, getting worse to the point of having to be plugged in all the time, machines fans would be on constantly after a few months, i would have laptops just reboot instantly, power connectors snap, WiFi just stop working, and motherboards just die. But i kept getting these HP, Acer and Asus laptops because there was no way i wanted a Mac, Mac's were overpriced crap blah blah blah.

Then i gave in and got my first Mac, a Macbook Air, after all it could not be any worse than something running Windows 8! and now I'm a complete convert. 3.5 years on, and its still as fast as the day i bought it, i still get over 5 hours of battery out of it (it was the 2013 Air where the battery hours leaped closer to 9/10 hours , so just missed out), i've not done a clean install of OS X on it ever, it came with Lion, i upgraded it to Mountain Lion, then Mavericks, then Yosemite then Al Capitain and its still fast, and amazing if that was Windows it would be dog slow by now going through that many upgrades. The MagSafe power connector is such a great thing , the trackpad is the best i've ever used, and no fan noise unless i load Minecraft or rip a DVD, and best of all i could still get close to £500 for it today if i wanted to sell it!

Just wish i had not been so closed minded for the last 15 years and ignored that Mac, i could have saved a lot of time and money if i had bought one years ago.

Microsoft Office 365, Azure portals offline for many users in Europe

I'm not a cloud fan at least not Microsoft's, OneDrive for Business anyone? What an absolute mess that is, yet Dropbox seem to manage it fine, but i've been forced that way because things such as Office for iPad require it, and since we are already paying for it we may as well move our Exchange over to 365.

I will give Microsoft some credit , Onenote is a fantastic product and absolutely love it now its cross platform (Mac, Windows, iOS and Android), but i'm guessing that has been effected by this outage.

If only i could have the same functionality as a private self hosted cloud.

Windows 10 pilot rollouts will surge in early 2016, says Gartner

I had some Windows only software i needed to use this week, since we are almost a 100% Mac & iPad place now i've not really looked at Windows 10 (Windows 8 was what really made us jump platform, had been Windows since the 3.1 days)

So i installed Fusion for Mac to make a VM, and i thought lets download Windows 10 and give it a whirl. The VM was deleted and Windows 7 installed after 2 hours of swearing at it. Windows 10 is horrendous and just as awful as Windows 8. Just the Settings/Control panel made me want to scream in anger!

Why is Microsoft getting the OS so badly wrong now? I use to like using Windows, Windows 2000 was so clean and uncluttered GUI wise, a pleasure to use. Windows XP you were able to make it look like Windows 2000, such as turn off that stupid category view in Control Panel and all that other silly dumb down the user interface stuff, Windows 7 whilst i still prefered the Windows 2000 GUI i could tolerate it and again could turn off that stupid category view in control panel, it had just a few annoyances like those Libraries.

I'm not a Microsoft basher, where they do a decent job i will say. I love using Microsoft Onenote on my Mac/iPad/iPhone and still think Microsoft Office is the best/most rich Office suite out there. I'm just so glad the Mac platform is a viable alternative now compared to say 15 years ago, OS X is actually great to use compared to Windows latests offering, its clean and easy to navigate, something Microsoft don't seem to understand now.

Im going to guess Enterprise will cling on to Windows 7 like they did XP and not start these large scale Windows 10 deployments as the article suggests. By the time Windows 7 support ends in 2020 the whole IT landscape might be a very different place.

Windows 8.1 exams kept alive six more months, Win 7 tests immortal

7 will be the new XP. Luckily it still has just over 4 years of support left. Windows 10 is just as bad as Windows 8, its interface is awful. Just spend 3 seconds in Settings/Control panel to get a taste of its bad design.

Microsoft is about to launch a UK store within a store

Microsoft do like using them photocopiers.

Acer: Our sales promos left us nursing operating losses

Having bought hundreds of Acers over the last 13 years my experience has been they are too hit and miss. Some models are half decent, then others are utter garbage. Just as you find a decent model they produce it stopped and you then have to try your luck on the new models. This has been more so in recent years as the race to the bottom price was has been happening. They made much better machines years ago when a typical laptop cost £500+.

7 million Apple Watches just buried the competition – Canalys

I'm glad I got my Apple Watch and see my self getting another one when they are refreshed . Apple Pay is my favourite thing with it, so useful when using London Underground , ands it's quicker than using traditional plastic . Found it handy answering calls when my hands are messy like when cooking in the kitchen. Notifications are handy on it , and the Apple Music + AirPlay integration is handy. Add on the fact I can now keep track of how active I am too, I'd feel lost without an Apple Watch now. But I understand not everyone is me, I only know 7 people with the Apple Watch , but it's early days.

Apple and Cisco begin to map their corporate desires, apps and all

IBM use Apples DEP program for both Mac and iPad so from the very beginning the Apple stuff is easier to deploy. The person unwraps the device and its already managed, enrolled in an MDM and pulling down the settings. No imaging required, no putting through System Centre and Apples enterprise model is around user centric device management, very different way to the MS world.

Hands On with Windows 10 Mobile build 10572

I see this feature as gimmicky when i think about it more, kind of like its cool, but not actually useful in the real world. If you are going to put a monitor , keyboard and mouse on a desk, you may as well just but the desktop unit as well.

Microsoft offers to PAY YOU to trade in your old computer for a Windows 10 device

Desperate times call for desperate measures, i see Windows 10 has yet to grab more market share than Windows XP... http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201510-201510-bar considering it was free upgrade to consumers and pushed out electronically its quite a bad response.

Then again 10/15 years ago i would have been excited about a new Windows OS, but since i've been burned and shit on with Windows Vista, 8, and 8.1 my love for Windows has gone, i dream of a Windows OS as clean and well laid out as Windows 2000 but i doubt thats going to happen.

My love affair is now with the Mac (and Linux too), and Apple would have to seriously screw up for that to change, but hey Microsoft managed to screw Windows so its possible. The odd thing is i would never EVER have bought a Mac 10 years ago, i would have bitched and made fun of Mac users, but even Windows 7 drives me mad now after using OS X for 4 years.

I think the Windows 10 take up so far shows most people just don't care about Windows anymore, its just that annoying thing that breaks all the time.

Surface Book: Microsoft to turn unsuccessful tab into unsuccessful laptop

Its funny because Apple's model has always been control the hardware and the software. Microsoft (at least under Bill) has always gone the other route saying they make the software and have many OEM's making the hardware. Now they U turn after many years.

Its just Redmond at the photocopier again, now they have twigged you get a better product with tighter integration of hardware and software.

iPhone 6s and 6s Plus: Harder, faster and they'll give you a buzz

Re: Original?

More or less, but its on by default and they can be viewed on an iPad, iPhone, Mac and on Facebook via a new API (guessing a lot of people share photos on Facebook). So a better implementation of it.

Apple's big secret: It's an insurance firm (now with added finance)

Re: It seems to me that Apple do almost everything just a bit better than their rivals...

Well i've rolled out an MDM for 450 iPads where i work. Not heard of DEP? (Device enrolment program) really makes Admin's jobs much easier.

Swimming in smartmobe profit? Let us guess, you're Tim Cook?

As somebody who went from the Nokia N900 (hated Apple at this point), to a Samsung Galaxy S2 (because i did not want anything Apple) to an iPhone 5 , i would now not buy anything but an Apple iPhone.

I see people comparing specs, or shouting we have had NFC for years. You are all looking at it wrong. With Apple it is all about the user experience. Thats what the other manufactures just don't get. Whats the point in them putting NFC on the iPhone if hardly anybody is adopting it? The experience to the user will be rubbish. Now they do the whole thing with Apple Pay its actually being used and last year in its first week their was more Apple Pay transactions than all of Googles Wallet to date at the point. Why? Because Apple made sure the user experience was good from the start.

iPhone acting a bit odd, developed a hardware fault? Just walk into the Apple Store , go to the genius bar, they find the fault, you walk out a happy Apple customer with a replacement iPhone. User experience? off the charts.

I also love the experience of using iOS compared to Android (or at least Samsungs dogs breakfast version of it!). Its consistent and does not do anywhere near the odd things my S2 would do.

Another example is Spotify, for the last year I've kept dipping in and out of it , but in the end i just gave up, Spotifty just drove me potty. Apple Music? Im loving it, so now I'm back to streaming music, my experience is great. Im loving it.

Install OS X El Capitan update – or your apps may do an Ellen Pao

SMB should be good as they are standardising on SMB3 even getting iOS 9 to support it ( to os x server shares only though ).

NHS trust's crack IT squad claims its first digital upgrade hits

She is correct, nobody got trained on Facebook, and just look at home many people do not know how to lock their profile and leak info for the whole world to see.

Apple Pay's Brit biz bashed by banks planning to Zapp it out

Barclays twitter feed was a flood of complaints when they were not including in the list of banks supporting Apple Pay. If Barclays don't sign on by Christmas I'm going to change to a bank that supports it. I don't want a phone full of endless payment apps, just 1 system on my phone. Plus Apple Pay supports the watch too. Android users will have Google Wallet. Its a lot neater and better experience for the user that its NOT done by the banks and shops, 1 function of the phone for payment is a lot neater.

North America down to its last ~130,000 IPv4 addresses

So whens the mad dash to get IPv6 highly adopted going to start.......? Its been on my 'to do list' for about 10 years.

MOUNTAIN of unsold retail PCs piling up in Blighty: Situation 'serious'

and yet Mac sales seem to just be going up and up breaking the industry delcining trend....