Skype seriously annoyed a lot of people when they gave less than a month to have their London SkypeIn phone numbers – many their main business number – changed by 20 December.
We were one of those unfortunates too, so were forced to take action.
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Audacity, the free open-source audio editor, has released a new update – 1.3.4 beta – with lots of new features. It’s used by many people and has many passionate followers.
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Multi-platform Web browser company Opera have filed a complaint with the European Commission citing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
The approach is two pronged – abuse of Microsoft’s dominant position in tying its browser to the Windows operating system and, second, hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards.
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Besides Stereo bluetooth and the odd bit of file transfer, we’re sadly disappointed by the applications that people have put Bluetooth to … but today started to look up a bit, when we saw this Vibrating Bluetooth Bracelet.
Rather than wearing a silly lump of plastic on your ear, to let you talk when you phone rings, the LM959 Bluetooth vibrating bracelet from LM Technologies hangs on your wrist and vibrates when a call comes in, even when you’re up to 5m away from the handset.
With a charge time of 3 hours, the ‘up to’ 100 hours standby time sounds pretty healthy.
If this all sounds appealing … you’re going to have to hold your horses, as they’ve all sold out at the moment. If they do come back in stock, they cost £30 before.
Grandmaster Flash, godfather of scratching has been brought in to tell the world how great he thinks Traktor Scratch is.
For those of you who aren’t aware, it’s a system that lets you control you digital music files using vinyl, giving you all of the function of decks, with the flexibility of a huge digitised music collection.
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Ask.com is to allow users of its search engine to delete all of their queries from their server – a stark contrast to other major search engines, especially Google.
We all used to love the early days when the new Wired magazine came out, right? The anticipation of the magazine which actually ‘Got it,’ alone in a world where all other magazines were clueless.
Well, after selling off Wired magazine and wired.com off for not nearly as much as he wanted to get for it, Wired founder, Louis Rossetto floated off to enjoy his life. Well now he’s back with a totally different business – Tcho, selling fine hand-made chocolate.
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A recent survey has reported that 97 per cent of those who responded intended to do a ‘substantial proportion’ of their Christmas shopping online.
Having written about online activity for more years that we care to remember – six, as you’re asking – we know that there’s been a thirst for online shopping growing, the benefits are clear, generally lower prices and convenience being the most obvious.
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Uk broadcaster, Channel 4, has launched High Definition broadcast of their channel, distributed on using the Sky satellite platform.
No prizes for guessing the name for it – Channel 4 HD.
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The loss of private records of 25 million residents by a UK government department continues to make headlines.
The News of the World newspaper have obtained a March 2004 letter from Treasury risk manager Richard Fennelly following his analysis of the security of the child benefit records system.
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