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Modular smartphones floated by Dutch designer chap

Thursday 12th September 2013 11:24 GMT madmalc

Re: I see a market...

Minecraft phone anyone?

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Tell me why I don't like Moon days: Bob Geldof heads into SPAAACE

Wednesday 11th September 2013 12:25 GMT madmalc

Hmm

This firm hasn't actually launched anything yet... (I don't count that small homebuilt kit thing they strapped a small rocket to - the "Rocket Racer")

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New iPhones: C certainly DOESN'T stand for 'Cheap'

Wednesday 11th September 2013 07:51 GMT madmalc

Re: It is affordable and useful

Buy a Nexus 7, better AND much much cheaper

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Wednesday 11th September 2013 07:40 GMT madmalc

Is it just me...

or does the back of the 5S look like a HTC One copy

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Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business

Tuesday 3rd September 2013 07:11 GMT madmalc

The New Zune phone!

Whatever happened to Zune?

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Dark blue side of the Force used to quell Star Wars nerd clash

Thursday 16th May 2013 11:45 GMT madmalc

I thought the comments on this story would be worth reading

and they were...

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Clarkson: 'I WILL find and KILL the spammers who hacked me'

Wednesday 20th February 2013 12:49 GMT madmalc

Doh

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'Not even Santa could save Microsoft's Windows 8'

Wednesday 9th January 2013 11:19 GMT madmalc

Re: All they need to do is put the start menu back on as standard

I have tried it on my Acer convertible tablet and, whilst its great in touch mode, it is cr*p with a mouse & keyboard

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Tuesday 8th January 2013 21:10 GMT madmalc

All they need to do is put the start menu back on as standard

I would love Windows 8 with a start menu on a desktop or regular laptop, and I'd love it in native mode on a tablet. I shouldn't need to install 3rd party software to use it with a mouse

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RIP Brian Wynne Oakley: Saviour of Bletchley Park

Wednesday 29th August 2012 08:46 GMT madmalc

"IBM produced its first PC in 1981: the Acorn 8088 running MS-DOS." Really?

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HP taps Intel Atom for next-gen Moonshot hyperscale servers

Tuesday 19th June 2012 19:52 GMT madmalc

Musical reference

Impressed with Moody Blues song title reference

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Foundering Nokia pushes 10,000 bods, 3 veeps overboard

Thursday 14th June 2012 10:00 GMT madmalc

Let them die

Nokia is the past, they had their time in the Sun

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Bang & Olufsen Beolit 12

Monday 21st May 2012 17:47 GMT madmalc

And not only that

Donk your iphone on top then carry the Beolit 12 across the room

Think about it (Sorry, just dropped into nazi store keeper in Falling Down)

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Monday 21st May 2012 17:36 GMT madmalc

and also

for that price I want a class A amp!

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Monday 21st May 2012 17:35 GMT madmalc

Style

Looks cr*p and the handle is stupid!

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IBM’s first tape drive turns 60

Monday 21st May 2012 05:01 GMT madmalc

RTFM

Storage density not 1 bit but 100 characters per inch

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Happy 30th Birthday, Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Monday 23rd April 2012 20:28 GMT madmalc

Toy!

Some of us had real computers with proper keyboards & disk drives

Vic-20 +16k rampac

Commodore 64 + 1541 disk drive - the beauty of 6502 assembly language

Commodore 128 + 1571 disk drive - ran CP/M nicely with its built in Z80 2nd processsor - Wordstar & dBase II

Diversion to Atari 800XL - for a fortnight

Amstrad CPC6128 - 3" disk drive 100 times faster than Commodore

Amstrad PC 1640 with 30MB hardcard

etc etc etc

An evening at the house of an atomic scientist from Harwell trying to get his child's ZX80 to load anything at all put me off Sinclairs

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Barclaycard slaps pay-by-bonk plasters on mobes

Thursday 19th April 2012 12:21 GMT madmalc

I've been using mine in McDonalds & Greggs for months - slight waistline problem however - can I sue Barclays?

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Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record

Wednesday 11th April 2012 10:36 GMT madmalc

Nuke the hippies :-)

Like we should have done in the 60's!

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Vote now for the WORST movie EVER

Friday 30th March 2012 13:38 GMT madmalc

Real abomination: "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers"

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Friday 30th March 2012 13:37 GMT madmalc

Hitchhiker's Guide film was fairly amiable (As one who read all the books and enjoyed the TV series)

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Friday 30th March 2012 13:37 GMT madmalc

The most recent version of "Pearl Harbour"

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Friday 30th March 2012 13:37 GMT madmalc

Anything with Leonardo Di Caprio in it

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Friday 30th March 2012 13:37 GMT madmalc

U571

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Friday 30th March 2012 13:37 GMT madmalc

Why was "The Sound Of Music" not in the list?

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Peugeot 3008 HYbrid4

Tuesday 6th March 2012 13:47 GMT madmalc

Poor real world economy

Autocar in their exhaustive road test got worse economy than the standard diesel

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2011's Best... Cars

Wednesday 7th December 2011 13:59 GMT madmalc

Petrolheadonism - hardly. No one who enjoys driving would go near the Nissan Leaf - it is a soggy pudding. The 500 TwinAir is sprightly but CO2 is proportional to the fuel consumption and this thing struggles to do 35mpg if you cane it - which is worse than my Mondeo 2.0TDCi with 130bhp hauling nearly two tons around. Peugeot's 1.6HDi struggles to move a 307 so the 508 must be about as fast as a Morris Minor. The new Focus looks good and has some great tech but it doesn't handle like the previous model which was its USP. At least the MP4-12C is worthwhile and I have to say looks better than the 458. The Italia looks a bit gawky IMHO whilst the McLaren is exactly what I used to draw in my school books

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