* Posts by booms

3 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2013

Be your own Big Brother: Monitoring your manor, the easy way

booms

I was just about to try and buy one of these things.

I found something called a Y-cam. You can buy them in Argos for £129 - and they have cloud based storage that's free, that records only when something has moved, can view live through an Android app, and no messing around with static IP as far as I know. They've been lucky enough to have some guy burgled whilst using it - he called the police when he got an email and the police got the guy before he left. Superb PR....

Having said all that the cloud storage is a wee bit worrying. There's also some implication of a limit to the storage size but absolutely no useful information anywhere about how much it might be. All a bit offputting when I have no idea who makes it or how they might bend their own rules in the future.

Yes, Google can afford to lose $9bn in Motorola sale. But did it really?

booms

Superb article

This is why I read the Register. Lightyears ahead of anything, including national newspapers. And knowing a bit about corporation tax, well thought through.

Gov report: Actually, evil City traders DIDN'T cause the banking crash

booms

Excellent article - registered just to say so. This is why I check the Reg several times a day!