Will EE or VFO2 buy Three and put them out of their misery.
Posts by Richard Cartledge
470 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Aug 2007
Vodafone and O2 to merge mobile networks
Windows 8 Release Preview open for download
Friday 1st June 2012 10:30 GMT
I am still downloading, but it looks as though they have moved away from the 1890-1970 physical paper-based office parody that has served the personal computer 'Desktop' from 30 years. As all the old people who knew these old offices with their files, folders, wastebaskets and paperclips are now retired or dead, I think it's good that the way has been cleared for young folk to take the UI to the next level, as Apple have done somewhat with iOS and Mountain Lion. They are still just the first step in a transition, so will be a botch, but we should now see a purer UI without shuffling around office idioms and parodies on a 'desktop' in the years to come.
PayPal whips out barcode app for high-street glad rags
Al Gore pumps $12m into cheapo TLC flash upstart
WTF is... Li-Fi?
Facebook phone tagged for 2013 release
Foxconn receives Apple smart TV order - report
Steve Jobs' death clears way for rumoured 4in 'iPhone 5' screen
Friday 18th May 2012 09:04 GMT
I have used one, but never owned one. As far as I can see, swype is for typing quickly, not for tapping parts of the screen that are to far away for one's fingers. If you like big phones that's great and the SII has a great screen and form factor.
For me, I even find the conventional iPhone screen a little too tall for one handed use and would be better positioned 7mm lower on the device's front.
Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK
Spy under your car bonnet 'worth billions by 2016'
Apple drops '4G' label from new iPad
Sony stock slides to 30-year low after record loss
Finally, it’s the year of Linux on the desktop IPv6!
UK Border Agency servers go titsup, thousands grounded
Samsung unwraps 17in Ivy Bridge beast
Global chocolate crisis looms
Softphones strangled by smartphone battery life
Asda knocks out Kobo e-reader for £49
IT urine bandit fired and charged
Sugar content now to be measured in Cadbury Creme Eggs
A million TVs to go dark across London
Judge orders O2 to name suspected smut burglars
Americans resort to padlocking their dumb meters
Medieval warming was global – new science contradicts IPCC
Report: Nokia, Apple battle over ultra-tiny nano-SIMs
BBC links Iran to cyber-war against Persian telly service
Apple pushes out Mac OS X update to fix Time Machine fail
iOnRoad Augmented Driving
GM puts the brake on Volt e-car output
Monday 5th March 2012 12:38 GMT
We are told we are already running at over generation capacity and have to import electricity significant amounts of power from France.
How on earth can we support these virtually tax-and-duty-free electricity guzzlers?
Some say using wind power, and even if you believe that that is not a financial scam, you must agree that the wind usually drops at night when these things are likely to be charges, let alone can not be windy for weeks on end anyway.
Also, with 10%VAT on power vs. 70% tax on fuel, how will the politicians then get the income to feather it's nest? Whole-scale electricity duty with annual rises every budget?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
