so glad i opted out of this years ago when we had the chance,

Crap implementation!

Tesco have the worst implementation of nfc of all the major retailers. It fails to work for me at least every other time. Every other place I've used it, it works first time.

Nfc mobile seems to still be struggling I'm yet to b able to try it but I'm happy with bonk by card so don't see the big deal really

I phone starting to look dated?

It was dated when it came out.. Didn't bother the fans back then and it won't bother them in the future.

just lost my whole lunch break to HTML 5 Lemmings.

Nice one!

I wonder if this was a bad move long term. Surely its better to know their online identities and monitor rather than cut off that identity to the services its using. I mean if I was cut off from something I'd sign up under a new name.

Does come down to parents to protect theirown kids tho.

Thanks Dave!

Now hows about we start work on ridding us all of the DM.

The press is the press, but when people are stupid enough to believe the crap they print, its time to sort it out.

Either that or a free sachet of salt for every reader!

Very interesting read on the cloud flare blog. Thanks for sharing!

I hope the nets are restored soon

Recently went to see the parents and mother decided it was the day to clear out my "computer stuff" cupboard from when i lived at home. (I thought it had all gone in a skip a decade ago) I then discovered I am a hoarder...

2x 28k modems

1x 56k modem

1x 56k v90 modem

Too many new / unused telephone - modem cables

Too many serial / paralell leadss

2x paralell spllitters (marked color / b&w / scanner / zip drive - shudder)

Pretty much every bit of Palm ever made and sold in a box (uncle worked at palm)

Bluetooth OCR devices for palm pilots

Windows 3.11 discs

Windows 95 discs

Windows 98 SE Disc

Windows ME box (discs all burnt and melted into one useful blob)

Various Encarta and Office discs

Borland learn c++ in 7 days (unopened)

Various GFX Cards

Various CDs labelled, DRIVERS DONT LOSE!!

Various Digital Cameras probably with resolutions lower than my front facing phone camera

Various SoundBlaster LIVE! cards and front panels

And a device that looks like some sort of media apparatus with a PS2 port on the end.

All seems completely useless in todays world, did i throw ALL OF IT out? Nope.

Hey, you never know when you might need a PS2 colon inspection device!

If "she who must be obeyed" knew about any of this, it would be in the skip before i could blink, so it stays safely in the garage for another 10 years of being forgotten

Testing?

Just threw my colleagues iPhone 5 on the river, I'll get back to you in 2013 ;-)

its the story that keeps on giving!

Megabox sounds like the new EMI / Universal / Insert Major Corporation name creaming off artists profits,

but i could be wrong. He is, afterall, such a nice chap!

Stuff like this is all too common place and needs to be highlighted more.

The dance music scene i worked in for ten years suddenly decided that DJs who didnt turn up with a minibus or coach load of full price ticket paying punters werent worth paying for their time anymore.

This has gone on for around 2 years now and the end result is, the really good up & coming DJs all disappeared and were replaced with VirtualDJ DJs.

"Go cry me a river" i hear you shout.

Well for two scenes i worked in, numbers are now so badly thru the floor, a lot of promoters gave up.

The end result is, there are around 75% less independent club nights happening, and the major ones have all put the prices up.

I'll stop ranting, but PAY THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR YOU!

Just because they are "creatives" who generally jump at the oppotunity of working (little work is better than no work) doesnt mean you should pay them less, or nothing at all.

Disgraceful she thought she could get away with this in the first place. I hope she is paying the artists that volunteered for free and not just asking her mates to come in and play now they are getting paid, which usually happens...

Off topic observation

Love being the exception to the rule, im completely unable to lock a target in any game but give me a rifle and i hit my target first time.

To the first commenter, read the article!

This is also designed to create employment. Maintenance, tank or fuel emptying etc.

There's no money to be made by crapping in a pit. And the one thing these countries need is money.

Money brings, medicine, education and overall progress.

So over instagram now. It was good, but there are much better editors out now and I never cared for the social aspect anyway.

Full steam ahead zuck!

I love this guy. Think big!

P. S. I do realise he is a vile excuse for a human being.

Make it illegal then....

They arent breaking the law...

When will the MP's get it in their heads?

If you want them to pay it, make it law! Simple.

If they then evade tax, you have a path for recourse. This whole "morality" non-sense is rich coming from the "duck house crew"

Fuck you apple!

FFS!

I cannot wait for the day R&D slowly stops thanks to culture of ridiculous patents and licensing

Surely this is worthy of FRAND licensing?

I'm actually a little gutted I didn't try this out before getting the s3.

I much prefer the shape of the lg.

Although as you say, they are worse than Motorola for updates.

@Bill Smith 1

Move along, its not meant for people like you...

Go buy another shiny shiny.

as long as they train the staff to know whats going on its all good, i was in co-op this weekend and the utterly thick checkout dolly laughed at me when i bonked my card on the reader, she goes Oh it doesnt work like that you have ot insert it, i told her to read the sign stuck more or less to her forehead* which said PayWave. recieved the obligatory dirty look and Eventually she found the button to turn the pay by bonk sensor on and my life continued...

loosest link in the chain and all that...

Am I the only one that appreciates other Google products within their own search listings?

A quick way of getting into maps with a Google search of a post code, with a brief look at the standard web search, and if relevent news search.

Or if I'm shopping, news, web and shopping results all in one page, and mostly relevent and useful.

You may hate them but they provide an amazing service compared to what we put up with in the early days and all of this built on text ads that are easily ignored, or sometimes useful in my experience, it ain't half bad.

Even if they do have to make changes I hope they are only for anonymous users, I'm happy with the info I hand over and as such want the best experience possible, who is some EU bureaucrat to tell me that I have to be offered an inferior product just because they lack market share. This shit annoys me on many levels, but mostly because older members of my family know how to use and enjoy using Google products, as far as they are concerned google is their portal to the net, on a few occasions they've followed emailed links an ended up on yahoo or Microsoft versions of search or maps and every time I get a phone call asking to put it back to normal. As far as I'm concerned the more Google can do to keep them contained and relatively safe, the better.

Yaawwwwwn.

The only people that win are lawyers and consumers have even more conflicting information about devices, end result people hold off from buying. Obviously not the likes of early adopters but Gen pop, definitely.

funnily enough

i just got back to the UK, via gatwick. All operational, and a nice lady trying to persuade people to use it, but everyone (few infront of me and few behind) all gave excxuses not to use it.

I dont have a bio passport yet, nor do i want one, but my mum and sister do. My mum has not once managed to get through without it locking her in the gate and someone being called in to check her details manually and release her from the improtu jail. she's been given any number of ridiculous excuses including my favourite (definetly not hers) "you're getting on now love so maybe your eyes have changed since your scans were taken" she nearly smacked the "Immigration Officer" in the face for that one.

just get rid of the damned things, and lets employ some people for once. not just find ways of replacing everyone with a gadget.

<rant over>

I love powerline networking, but have never managed to stream anything over it without major buffering. I dont know if its interfearance or just not enough bandwidth by the time its got all round my ring main, but i finally succombed a got a legacy switch from work and chucked CAT6 all round the flat.

Never looked back!

design?

am i the only one who thinks these look horrible, cheap and already dated? not to mention flimzy.

all wild accusations from a photo i grant you, i guess im an in-ear ear bud type of guy so any set of heaphones that arent Sony MDR 500's just dont appeal.

Finally an option for view desktop site!

Notice this more on the tablets (honeycomb) but getting the often non-fully-functioning mobile edition of websiteswhilst on the move is a real pain in the ass. So thanks to google for sorting that out.

Now just proxy authentication without rooting would be nice :)

@Tom38

i work in a state secaondary school.... we have 30 ipads for taking registers and virtual desktops.

15 were lost and another 30 ordered.

we're also getting 20 xoom 1's from the US to evaluate them vs an ipad as we can get two xoom's for one ipad.

From what i saw of SeaSaw it was awful. I use boxee on a number of PCs and i dont think i ever got to the end of a programme due to buffering or something else going wrong.

Also, having to pay for BBC content is a big no no!

Finally!

Now you can make people sign-up for it with a reference number, so i can finally stop being hassled by the nazi's. oh sorry, i meant tv licensing "enforcement team" and constantly having to prove i have two 40" LCD TV's hooked up to my recording studio PC that cannot recieve live broadcast as the aerial socket has been smashed in so there is no way i could possibly watch live tv!

Get on with it and opt me out!

I'd rather pay the data usage on my phone to listen via 3g than buy a DAB, i only listen to spoken word FM radio though.

I tried DAB when it first came out when i was off to wales for Uni, i left the DAB in halls when i moved out it was so terrible, its luck it had an FM tuner as well otherwise it would have just been a paperweight.

im still interested to see what happens to the London pirate fm stations when the big switch off comes. they are the only real choice in music, around london anyway. all the others just play the same old playlists over and over. I wont be getting a DAB in my car, if i can get the fm pirates still i'll be listening, otherwise cd's or HDD all the way.

Radio quality overall has plumetted in the last 2 decades, i fear the FM switch off will be one of many nails in the radio coffin.

to the earlier poster asking do the artists get their dues?

we do, but its hardly worth it being almost 0.0012p per play

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/

i also own an independant record label, so i can tell you most of the above figures (although a year n a bit old) are still pretty accurate.

o rly?

does this mean motorola will finally update a phone or two?

nah, thought not.

Figures?

Sounds like a good idea, the simplest ideas are often the best ones, but i guess its still early days to be asking for specs and proof?

When they can show some data on real life improvements over similar equipment in exact same environments i'll be interested to see what this actually delivers. As someone said above, its not going to double up capacity just by becoming full duplex surely?

Im no RF engineer but surely the signal would still be affected by the usual factors that make WiFI in busy locations so tempremental?

Trial

I would like to trial this, as for the world cup we got the new LED Samsung with DLNA and IPTV etc. But samsungs app on the tv not only take ages to load and sync but the DLNA implementation is not what you'd call easy to use. For a techy its fine, but for mum and dad they just refuse to wait more than a few seconds for anything on the tele. They still moan about the time it takes to change channel on cable, "its just not what it used to be"

If this new UI from Tosh can actually run smoothly and doesnt make you wait 1minute+ for stuff you have in the cloud then it has half a chance of succeeding, if it lags like all the others, it will just be forgotten, or not noticed in the first place!