Posts by Steve Liput

Bonking with Apple has POUNDED mobe operators' wallets

Why do we keep trying to add another middleman?

Why can't Visa/MasterCard/AMEX just make their own individual apps to do this?

Soz, BT: All EE's 4G goodies still won't give you 'seamless voice'

Get your facts right

BT have plenty of 2.6GHz spectrum to cover the country, it would just be expensive as 2.6GHz has limited range

"BT hasn't enough spectrum to cover the whole country" - complete rubbish.

"to have full coverage it would really want 800MHz as well" - true, as 800MHz would give you better range

"build out your LTE network to a level where [you have full coverage]... is not open to BT, which only has 50MHz of spectrum." - rubbish again

The biggest reason why then need a partner is that (even if they had 800MHz) the business case woudl not support building out a new network costing £ billions

Qualifications: advised Ofcom on many spectrum auctions

Microsoft blasts PC makers: It's YOUR fault Windows 8 crash landed

MS have a point

I want to buy a new touch screen laptop, probably an ultrabook. The choice out there is abysmal though - there's only 1 or 2 options per store that are even touch screens. Laptop manufacturers need to add touch to many more Win 8 laptops and soon or they'll miss the boat

Intel, Google 'optimize' chips for Android

Optimising the JIT comiler

I think they are optimising the JIT compiler for Dalvik. This was introduced in Android 2.2 and is significant speed boost that needs to be optimised for each chipset

It has already been done for ARM, and a company called Myriad Group have done it commercially for MIPS

Virgin Media switches to Gmail

@blasmeme

The POP3 access means you can downlaod all the email to your own computer. You also get the benefit of a good webmail service too

I don't get why anybody would use an email address from an ISP. Much easier to use a gmail/yahoo/hotmail as when you change ISP you don't have to change your email as well. Using an ISP's email service is a bit like getting all your post via the estate agent you bought/rent your house from...