Posts by Mandrin

Google 'personalizes' one in five searches

"THEM: Here you go....

Let us think for you and tell you what you want..."

You ....urmm, ok....

Apple's iPad - fat iPhone without the phone

How to make an IPad...

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FCC raises eyebrow at Google 'white-space' play

Wait....

Until every person connected to the net has a unique identifier. Wait till governments beg google to help them trace the nasty baddies out there in the world. etc

Google is in the strong position to eventually be the only ones stirring the pot on the stove...

25kg of cocaine hits Spanish supermarket shelves

Marketing opportunity!

"Shop at Lidl and pay $100 a toot for Christmas banana sherbet!"

Paris, coz she knows exactly what to do with bananas and sherbet.

Unused phone lines to be taxed for rural broadband

Oh no! Feel our pain...

Welcome to South Africa...

Here we pay a "line rental" charge of about 8 Pounds a month just to have the "privilege" of having a phone line running to our homes. We have to pay this whether we make voice phone calls or not. Why do we "have" to pay this fee you ask.... Because we only have one State/HalfPrivatised Hybrid monopoly that has been getting away with this tosh for years now. ADSL? Yup, we still have to pay the "line rental" charge as well as the ADSL profile account charge...

Seems like your "Bosses" in government have been taking a lesson from our fellers in how to squeeze every drop of blood from what should be a basic service at a low charge, if not completely free...