Posts by Big_Ted

Nokia's 41Mp cameraphone shoots towards retail

hmmm lets see

Just how many 41mp photos will fit on a 16gb card ?

Unless its very simple to swap the card for an empty one this is pretty much a waste of for your average punter......

Not that I would turn down one if offered.

New iPad can't get its Wi-Fi up

"Holding the iPad by the bottom corners seems to worsen the problem, and some users seem to have coaxed better performance by resetting their network connections"

Or how about turning it upside down............

Of cource even though its not stated the mobile operators are paying Apple their standard 30% on any new data plan taken out by those poor idiots who stream video on a 2GB a month limit.......

Dr Who scores new companion from Emmerdale

Your all wrong

The best ever Doctor / Companion team was Sylvestor Mccoy and Ace in the final series they did. It was just getting interesting when they canceled it.

And the worst team of all.........Colin Baker and Bonny Langford.........

Windows 8 for Kindle-like gear hinted by Microsoft bigwig

And so Microsoft finally surrender in the OS wars by designing a phone interface and porting it to everything else.

Where I work we are about to go from XP to windows 7 due to MS stopping support for XP.

We will stick with Windows 7 until dragged kicking and screaming away from it, I wouldn't be at all surprised if by then Android has moved on to version 10 or 15 and will be a full blown OS that works on everything the way it should and we would switch to it, we will not go the route of Windows 8 style UI no matter what, it just won't work in business that uses more than Office day to day. Or even that Apple makes its OS available on more than just their own kit and it will make big inroads into windows territory.........

Apple resellers left to pick bones of dwindling iPad stocks

I feel sorry for those poor people who are selling the "New" ipad on ebay for around £700 with guaranteed dispatch on the 16th or a full refund.

The poor soles could lose money via Paypal and Ebay fees.......

Serves the bastards right for trying to profit from the shortage......

Apple seeks permission to kick Kodak's corpse

Re: Here's a double Standard

First I would like to know if Kodak started their court action before going to chapter 11

Secondly I hate all BS patent actions like most of us and would love to see the US patent office sort it out to make it only possible to patent something they can demonstrate and not just an idea like Apple 3D patent reported a couple of days ago.

Apple "Please sir let us be allowed to sue them even though they are bankrupt"

Apple to another legal body "Please sir stop them sueing us as they are bankrupt"

You couldn't make it up could you. Talk about double standards.

Tesco offers broadband for LESS THAN THE PRICE OF A PINT

Ok the big question that needs an answer is do you get clubcard points on it ?

And why bother with this when you can sit the carpark of most larger Tesco's and use their WiFi for free......

Pakistan blocks 13,000 grumble flick sites

#~#

Can I be the first to ask for a full list of these sites so I can visit them all and thereby be able to post and unbiased view on if they are obscene or not....

Samsung shows third-gen Galaxy Tab

~#~

And the rounded corners.....

And square icons.....

Apple demands US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus

@ Charlie Clark

I agree re prior art, also it could backfir on Apple as people might ask themselves why buy an Apple device if the Android one is so similar unless you already have a big itunes library of stuff.

Why not go for the same thing with andoid and have the freedom to buy from anywhere......

Oh Dear

"four patents: predictive text; a data-tapper feature, which recognises data such as phone numbers and provides a link directly to the dialler, for example; a voice search feature that Apple believes is imitative of Siri; and the popular using-an-image-to-unlock feature"

So the nexus has the same features as all the other android smartphones have had for ages.

This is so lame, if there was any merit to this surely Apple would have sued for a block on all Android smartphones ages ago ?

Its obvious they are targeting Samsung as they see them as their biggest rival espcially in the untaped far east areas.

Big fat fail from me to Apple for looking desperate and for Samsung for doing the same back etc......

Lets make a new rule, a patent can only be issued for something that is a new idea, is provavble to work and unique when compared to the rest of the market, ie yes you can patent a 3D screen technology but only if you show me it working so I can agree its new and not patent an idea for a 3D screen as in the story http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/10/apple_patent_3d_user_interface/

Apple TV stock shortage sparks new gadget rumour fever

Breaking news.......

You hear it here first.

I have an exclusive source who is in the post room of Comet head office who has told me that the launch is in fact for the iPad 3 thats a 7 inch supper OLED screen device with a bloody big magnifying glass stand.

You get home and just slot you iPad 3 into and and settle on thge couch and use your iPad2 as a controller.

Better yet buy 2 of these and sit them side by side and you can get 3D for the price of a new Ford Focus......

iPads seized from shelves by Chinese officials

What I wonder is........

If Apple loose the appeal does that mean that within Chinas border the word ipad can only be used by Proview ?

How would that affect all those ipads being made there, would they have to leave the word ipad off them to be able to export ?

Could be interesting if they loose the appeal....

EU competition chief threatens patent war smackdown

Read before you write

@ Chris 19

No need to mention Motorola as its all covered by Google, their statement however you interprate it is all about what they will do if the deal to buy Motorola goes ahead.

And why shouldn't they or anyone else now have the right to get banned anything even if its an Apple product if the maker is refusing to sign a deal for the patents which is what Apple have done.

If Apple have not signed a deal and the offer was fair and non descrimatary then they deserve to have the book throuwn at them.

What we really need is for this to be widened to all pathetic patent cases with the holder having to pay full costs if they loose.

HP hands in-house Android code to TouchPad tablet hackers

yeah

I bought 5 of these babies for me and family.

Am waiting for ICS port to load on them, have CM7 on a couple they are great with it.

Hopefully this will aid them on problems with CM9 and get it into Beta quicker so I can test on my tablet......

Microsoft sets date for Windows 8 preview - at mobile shindig

Mehhhhh

Move along........

Nothing to see here

This must be the most unanticipated lauch / preview of any OS since PCDos.

We have an OS that will be split between systems that will either be fully working or if an arm based one restricted by the software.

Whats the point ?

Can't see it being any more welcome than Vista would be at a relaunch......

Huawei's Ascend P1 headed to China in March

Oh yeh right.......

ipad to ipad 2

new features includes crappy camera and your grateful.

to me new features mean more than doing what others already have but with cheaper parts.

Apples biggest problem is that they only release a new version about once a year where android phones with so many manufacturers trying to outdo each other will always be ahead on quality of parts.

If I am going to part with several hundred pounds I want the latest and best components not last years tech rehashed.

The Register Comments Guidelines

hmmmm

Yes it is.........

Even if its true.......

Nice

One of the most annoying things is posting and then having to wait forever for it to appear, by which time it might be on a page or 2 back and ignored.

Also will save multiple answers to a post clogging up the thread.

Billions of net-ready boxes in homes by 2016

Strange way to look at the figures.....

"The good news for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo is that their offerings, current and future, are the devices consumers are most likely to use to get internet content onto their tellies. There will be some 36.7m net-connectable consoles in homes come 2016, In-Stat reckons."

So if 20% of homes have a console conected to 1 tv in the home how is that the most likely root.

I would have thought that those smart tv's coming out with it built in plus all the dvd and blu ray players also with it built in are more likely.

Lets be honest here, most of us will use the telly to watch tv programs and films and not surf the net or use facebook etc. This is more so in homes with more than one person watching the telly at the same time. Its more likely that surfing will continue to be via devices we hold or laptops and desktops with media on the telly.

Netflix vs Lovefilm

@ Andy Heale re subtitles

Netflix has subtitles available, dn't know about lovefilm.

Just sign up to Netflix for a trial, you get 1 month free and see if its good enougth for your needs.

Facebook 'contributes' €15.3bn to EU economy... bitch

Whats missing

Whats missing from those figures is the cost to the economy for all the wasted time with people using facebook and twitter whist at work and not doing their jobs.

Plus I fail to see haw pressing the like button is making money for the UK......

I bet it costs more than it makes for most companies....

IPTV UK: what's on tonight?

Give this a try

http://www.unblock-us.com/?v=2

Tried it out to see if it works and WOW

When enabled my pc works as if in the USA so I can see Hulu ABC etc etc

And when I go to netflix it shows the USA version of the site with mega loads of content on the same login.

For $4.99 a month to add so much extra VOD without having to set up vpn and DNS etc its a great way of seeing what you can't otherwise

Intel chieftain outlines broad tablet, smartphone blitz

At CES

At CES I saw a report of a tablet application that looks at where various objects are located in front of the camera and animates them.

Thats 30 times a second, take image from camera, recognize objects and location, animate them, render the result on the tablet screen, on top of that is the interaction from the tablet screen.

How on earth are Intel going to compete with ARM chips that can already do that when they are working as hard as Intel to improve performance and cut power usage.

Give them 12 months and Intel may catch up with where ARM are now but that still leaves them a year behind.

By then servers will already be getting ARM systems.

Add to that M$ and their attempts to lock down hardware on ARM tablets and the great white hope of Windows 8 being a great seller becomes a great white elephant.

Intel need to do something new not play catchup or they could end up being another Nokia living on past glories till M$ send in a senior man to sort out the M$ takeover......

Ultrabooks to account for 35% of Acer laptop shipments

Here we are on the edge of recession and what do the pc makers do ?

They roll out a new form factor that costs at least twice as much as their current offering with little or no improovement for the majority of users.

Only those who need a laptop that has mega fast disk access will notice anything, as to the form factor itself, only for a very limited time is the thing actually being carried anywhere so again over priced for what it is.

I would much rather buy a current laptop and a tablet for the price of one of these things as I would have all the bases covered.

Government launches hydrogen motoring task force

ffs

thats methane you dipstick..........

Its a bomb I tell you......

What a great idea hydrogen is...................not

It burns explosively, just imagine being in an accident, your first thought is "is it leaking, am I going to die."

Petrol is bad enougth but not as likely to blow up.

What we really need is the swapable battery solution, you pull into a station like a carwash and your battery pack is dropped and another sloted in, should be possible in less time than filling with petrol plua no need to leave the car at all.

The battery packs could then be recharged using cheaper overnight power and even local green energy in the right places.

Virgin Media broadband goes titsup for 3 hours

thats without not with.....

thats without not with seeing any problems.....

Didn't notice it.........

Between 6 and 11 last night I downloaded 8 gig of data and streamed Netflix with seeing any problem.

At the same time surfing the net worked fine as well except for ebay not loading for about half an hour.

Looks like I am one of the lucky ones as my office and head office stayed online as well......

Virgin Media takes itself in hand after punter-package tickle whoopsie

They are doubling the values on the fair usage policy.

And if you read it you will see they manage traffic to imroove things like video streaming which I support.

As to those with speed issues I was downoding at the full 50 meg last night for over ana hour no problem so its only the unlucky few who have issues.

Raspberry Pi Linux micro machine enters mass production

Re what can you do.........

Anything you want of cource

Its basic so easy to use for all sorts of dedicated jobs.......

Archos G9 101 8GB Android tablet

But the current slider is £400 plus

add 12 inch OLED and price will go up anther £200 plus

no camparison then as this is a £250 tablet not a £4-600 one......

Oh dear

You forget that those dongles usually install software onto your laptop or whatever that is written by the manufactorer to make it owrk.

Archos would have to write a special script to modify Android to allw the hardware to work plus the dongle makers would have to breate all new firmware and software as well.

This way you get a dongle that will take a SIM card in it that is not locked to any mobile network without the need to pay to unlock it as well.....

Wish people would think first before they assume anything that works on windows will work with anything else as well....

Lovefilm knocks a pound off streaming sub

They would have to

They would have to pay me to use their streaming service, the quality is poor and thats when it works at all.....

Major buffering and pixelation is a pain in the arse.

Tried the Netflix offering this morning and it streamed two films one on my tablet and another on my laptop at the same time using the tablet as a wifi hotspot and that was on 3G.

If they can keep that up as the service becomes popular along with their greaer offerings on tv series etc then I can see them as the winners with lovefilm filling the snailmail sector of the market alone unless Amazon incorporate it into the prime service with much better bandwidth when they release the Kindle Fire.

Apple shoots for Premier League soccer streaming rights

Sounds good to me

Anything that weakens Sky is a good thing.

Shame for those who love footie but then again if you want it you have to pay for it.

One quetion come to mind, was this thought of before Steve Jobs died and if so did he use his share holding in Disney to start a joint deal to bid for rights to live and highlights.........

Enquiring minds should be checking into it.........

I can see Sky ending with no premier league footie at all with these companies pushing for rights. I am sure that Apple, Google, Disney and Al Jezera have more cash to bid with than Sky can come up with.....

Kindle Fire demand hits iPad rivals not iPad

Ok.......

One question springs to mind, how many of the 51% who were not happy with their non ipad tablet had bought a cheap (£60-90) quid chinese job off ebay and how many were owners of higher spec tablets running honeycomb.....

Dixons knocks £200 off laptops before Xmas...

think people....

This is the same ones with £200 off already plus a few new laptops that they are starting to stock.

No real giveaway here......

Android grabs quarter of tablet market

What no title

So according to the figures above Apple sold approx 4.2 million tablets last year making it the most amazing story around.

This year Android tablets sold approx 4.5 million tablets........

Looks like Android is more successful than many have given it credit for.

Nigerians panic over killer calls

dripping abomination from the depths of hell.....

@ James micallef

Now is that any way to talk about Mr Ballmer ?

The poor chap is trying to sale a Noddy UI'd phone OS as a desktop replacement with a strait face......

He doesn't need complements to boost his ego as well.....

Now Windows 8 goes into the ring to face Apple's iOS

Correct me if i'm wrong

Correct me if I'm wrong but this will only run all windows software if you have an intel processor in it.

If you have an Arm processor then it will only run apps.

Why would I want a Mikey Mouse UI on a pc to look like a tablet when I can't have a more powerful arm based tablet if I want to run word etc.

MS have really messed up here. What they should have done is have a desktop/non touch laptop windows and a portable/touch windows which is common to the phone as well as tablets etc.

As it stands Windows 8 is not fully compatable on software on arm and totally different to windows phone.......

Medion hides Android 3.2 tablet behind closed doors

Being Aldi

It will have a 3 year warranty so thats worth a few quid on its own.....

Amazon refuses Touchpad refunds after price slash frenzy

Censorship

Well they have now deleted a thread on their forum pages where people were sharing information.

I hope they are proud of themselves.....

"Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company" my ass............

Explaining the Chocolate Factory's Patent Panic

hmmmmmm

So the author who never writes a pro Google piece says they have made a panic buy....

Meh

This is just another fluff opnion piece that has nothing to do with reality.

Motorola may have a portfolio of patents (17,000) that won't help Google mostly but what about the 7,000 pending patents ? or has the author read through those as well.....

Fail because this is as far off the truth as the iPhone is dead piece.

Jobs: Apple succession plans are 'hogwash'

How about monkey boy

Steve Bulmer looks like he could be pushed out of M$ soon so how about him, ?

If its a big ego though then Larry Elison would fit the bill.

My bet though would be the current standin will get the job as they are oviously doing well at the moment looking at the latest sales figures.

After all the next couple of years plans for new tech are already bsing worked on.

Microsoft hires Disney man for consumer crusade

Makes sence to me.............

Microsoft bring out a phone OS thats way behind others coming to market because they missed the boat

Microsoft buy Skype for way more than its worth just because.........

Microsoft once again are behind everyone else and announce a tablet arm based windows OS that will arrive too late with IOS5 and Android 4 (ice cream sandwich) both out this year

Microsoft bring out a new cloud based Office...............................oh but you need desktop Office for it to work so not realy that cloudy.

What can they do to save themselves ?

Employ someone who is an expert in selling fantasy and dreams

Makes sense as thats what they are relying on for the future themselves.

Paris because she likes Mini Mouse

Mozilla cranks out Firefox 5 with cross-platform 'Do Not Track' feature

installed and removed in 1 minute

Installed on Android

No Flash support

Dumped

Oh well what did I expect..................

Siemens fixes SCADA holes found by hacker

Open network........of course its open.

Most remote PLC's are connected to the server via phone lines in most cases using either ethernet via DSL etc or via outstations that talk to the PLC.

The problem with this approach is that if you have the comms protocol and phone number of the site its easy to try to connect.

Otherwise its down to the same approach as trying to connect to any pc out there.

Also as companies such as Utilities have so many of these things in remote locations it can take months to get round and update the firmware then test all software in the PLC to ensure its still working.

On top of that many of these remote sites don't have any security above a lock on the door or padlock.

Note how easy it was a few months ago to bring down so much of the mobile network a few months ago via a simple breakin........

BlueStacks lets Android apps frolic on PCs

Thats fine for techheads

But the normal home user has no idea that Android SDK even exists and no interest in installing it to run apps when a simple emulator that would be preinstalled would do the job for them.

All they and the vast majority of people in the world want is to click an icon on the desktop and run a program / app.

This could be a great step forward for many with simple apps doing what they want without having to buy bloatware / business software to do simple tasks at home.