* Posts by Gregg Stuart

28 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Nov 2007

Apple lands slide-to-unlock patent blow on Motorola

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In the words of Al iG

Is it because "I" is Apple?

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Re: Rethink the slider

Do you not have a phone that automatically answers whilst on Hands-Free? Or have Apple had that disabled on your phone in a patent dispute?

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Re: Re: Jeez

Of course I've read the article, otherwise I wouldn't have seen the icon at the bottom of the screen that I need to press in order to comment. Hang on - Apple might have a patent for that too, El reg watch out, you'll be banned in Germany. Oh and in case you didn't know, yes, Windows Phone does have an icon you need to drag across the screen to unlock, but there's can go left as well as right.

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Jeez

Do these patent judges not know anything about tech or even bother to look for prior art. My Windows 6.0 phone pre-dates the iPhone and that has an icon to unlock the screen. This is getting ridiculous.

Black Ops has best videogame ending ever

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There isn't - i was being ironic.

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Surely..

It's Elite

Shakira attacked by sea lion who mistook BlackBerry for a 'fish'

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Of course, the adult movie industry is still very interested in rim products.

Apple demands US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus

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Due for another post Jobs crash?

Nobody wins here but the lawyers but then again when you've got as much money as Apple, do they really care?

Loyal NASA rover Opportunity enters 9th year of Mars boffinry

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Perhaps they should rename it

Wall-E

EU asks why credit cards are so expensive

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Dutch trains

really annoying that you cant use UK issued bank cards on the Dutch train system ticket machines or at some stations ticket offices.

Sites knocked offline by OpenDNS freeze on Google

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Ah Google. I've found that the latest version of Kaspersky (2012) doesn't like Chrome so it's not just OpenDNS that seem to have taken a disliking to them at the moment.

Clooney fingered for Steve Jobs role in Hollywood biopic

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Noah Wyle

"And although Wyle hasn’t exactly been a notable success since ER,".

Have you never seen The Librarian?

On second thoughts, I see what you did there.

Pacnet adds Honkers datacentre

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Pacnet

Not to be confused with the UK PaKnet network of course

Cambridge startup launches world's first white space radio

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How about

Using it for smart metering, especially as it would have more penetration than bluetooth/zigbee.

Facebook quietly switches on facial recognition tech by default

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Yet again, it feels like Facebook is eroding the online privacy of its users by stealth."

If you're that worried about it then you shouldn't be on Facebook, everybody should know by now that there is no such thing as privacy on that site not even as an option.

Nintendo 3DS bothers Brits about blinkers

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Please stop quoting £220 as the price

It's available for under £200 at nearly all the top game hardware on-line sites

Is Japan ready for Nintendo 3DS launch?

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£220

You need to look around. It's now available for under £200 in most places you'd normally buy this type of thing from.

Fifa to give goal-line tech a shot

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SNOOD

Ban em. Red card anyone who wears them and then ban the player.

Ofcom caught between picts and luvvies on 600MHz

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I'm surprised BT haven't waded in with this for its use

http://www.metering.com/node/18538

EU to lift flight ban on carry-on liquids

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Duty free

You can already take liquids bought from duty free shops on board planes in the EU, it's liquids that aren't bought in the duty free area that you can't.

Trek fans served Enterprise-grade pastry slicer

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hmmm

You might find the tomatoes Klingon a bit too much.

Consumer Reports: 'We were wrong about the iPhone 4'

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It's not just the iPhone

I've found HTC has the problem as well. If you run the bluetooth, GPS and charge the phone in your car (which is perfectly reasonable if like me you also us the phone as your primary GPS), the phone will heat up a lot and you'll see that your GSM reception goes right down or drops off altogether. I've had this happen on a XDA Ignito (P3600) and the newer HTC HD2.

Robothopter in biomimetic butterfly boffinry breakthrough

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Hmm.

Is it me, or does that video just show falling with style in slo-mo?

Reg reader applauds World's Crappiest phish

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my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities to the sender of this mail.

I'm sure they are anus-peptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused us all such pericombobulation.

OFT requests T-Orange investigation

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Or as it's known in the North

T'Orange

Privacy campaigner vows legal challenge to Google Street View

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Data Protection??

So what if it shows a photo of your house and since the photo was taken (these photos appear to be about 8 months old at least) you've had some work done in order to sell the house. The photo on Google Maps will show the house pre-work, so if a potential buyer goes to google maps to check the house out and then decides not to buy, where do you stand legally?

Ten years old: the world's first MP3 player

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IT Angle

Sony

Sony won the Blu-Ray wars beacuse they finally managed to co-ordinate three different parts of teh business - consumer electronics, games division and the movie division, all three being one of the biggest players in their respective markets. If they can keep doing that with future product launches then watch out.

I still don't use a lot of MP3's, i'm still a CD and dare i say it Vinyl man.

OLPC offers one-for-two to generous North Americans

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Mars

Boo

Only North America & Canada, bah, is this becoming available in Europe as well? Us Brits are a giving nation, just wait until CIN night on Friday and you'll see, besides wanted one for my son to learn on.