Posts by Alex Bath

Prof: People reject news which conflicts with beliefs

@Pete

Right-on! People who will even reassess existing beliefs on receipt of new information are not only very few, they tend to keep quiet about it.

Is your cameraphone an oxymoron?

Other uses for a camera you know...

I use the camera on my smart phone quite a lot but not what you might normally consider. I take whiteboard diagrams, documents and business-cards as this gives me useful records of events, meetings and people without a fistful of notes. I then plonk these in outlook and one note later. If the manufacturers want to do us a favour I'd vote for better low-light imaging (without flash) and a better lens - enough of the pixel count debate, please.

Microsoft's online Office variant preps for business

Scary stuff

I don’t suppose the inertia is down to the horrendous cost by any chance?

Almost every MS update download my PC pulls is a host of security fixes to my office suite so you can imagine my dread at the prospect of a distributed web-enabled version sending my private data hither and thither.