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  • Google Tasks: Gold Dust Info For Advertisers

    Google Tasks: Gold Dust For AdvertisersIn a further step to make Gmail as invaluable as possible to peoples lives, Google has released an add-on for gmail to help you handle your tasks.

    Released via Google Mail Labs, the app is fairly simple, letting you plug in the tasks you have to complete and when they have to be done by – but of course!

    As was pointed out on Twitter by Psychemedia, Google knowing what you need to get done is fantastic for their adsense advertising opportunities.

    It’s highly arguable that no piece of information could be more valuable to Google that what your plans / tasks / desire are.

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  • UK Internet: Censored Since 2004

    UK Internet: Censored Since 2004The recent story about Wikipedia being censored by a large number of UK ISPs has raised a lot of blog post/ tweets / column inches about quite how terrible / good it is that our Internet is not free and open.

    Wake up UK! … this ain’t nothing new.

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  • OpeniBoot: Linux On The iPhone (Video)

    OpeniBoot: Linux On The iPhone (Video)Interesting to see that Apple’s iPhone has had its iPhone interface replaced with a version of Linux by a group of determined enthusiastic Linux fans.

    From the video that we’ve seen (below) – and who knows if it’s for real? – OpeniBoot gives iPhone owners the choice to start the iPhone up in Linux, as well as the normal Apple OS.

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  • The Rise Of The PVR: Painfully Slow. New Technology Adoption Is Slow

    The Rise Of The PVR: Painfully Slow, But UK Highest In EuropeNever be fooled. Things always take a lot longer to change than you think they will – particularly where the mass adoption of a new technology is concerned.

    The PVR lesson
    When I started writing about TiVo back in 2001, I saw “PVR’s are a vital piece in the jigsaw.”

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  • Yahoo: Top Searches of 2008 Published

    Yahoo: Top Searches of 2008Yahoo has published their “Year in Review,” covering search over 2008.

    They’re keen to point out that it isn’t just what the top 10 searches were, but Top 10s of lots of catagories.

    Beyond the Top 10s there’s also some analysis of what those things could have meant.

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  • Android: Round Up Of The Best Apps For The T-Mobile G1

    Android: Round Up Of The Best Apps For The T-Mobile G1With Taiwan’s High Tech Computer (HTC) company – makers of T-Mobile’s G1 Google Phone – upgrading sales forecasts to hit one million units by the end of 2008 (and account for 4 percent of all smartphones sold in the US during the fourth quarter of 2008), we thought it might be an idea to post some links to new and available software.

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  • Apple User Copy Protection Fury

    Apple User Copy Protection FuryIt’s looking like Apple has built copy protection into their new laptops, without bothering to tell prospective purchasers about it.

    The currently Apple-faithful who have bought the new laptops, including the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, are finding that if they try to play films – that they have legitimately rented through Apple iTunes Store – through a non-HDCP external screen or projector are begin met with a message “This movie cannot be played because a display that is not authorised to play protected movies is connected.”

    Not surprisingly this has angered them a great deal – and quite rightly in our view.

    Given how Apple go to a great of effort in launching their products to the world, we think it’s pretty disingenuous not to mention that the laptops that are being bought have High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) built into them.

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  • BBC Website To Become “Corporations Second Biggest Channel By 2012”

    BBC Website To Become BBC’s hugely popular website is on course to become the Corporation’s second biggest property in just four years, according to their new director of future media and technology, Erik Huggers.

    Spurred on by the success of their BBC iPlayer service, the BBC’s website has seen huge traffic rises and now looks set to be second only to their flagship channel BBC1 by 2012.

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  • T-Mobile G1 Handset Sales Fails To Match Hype

    T-Mobile G1 Handset Sales Fails To Match HypeT-Mobile may be busy bigging up a rosy picture of the soaraway success of their Android-powered G1 phone and gushing that sales are “exceeding expectations”, but UK trade newspaper Mobile News is telling a different story.

    According to the paper, the G1 (‘Google phone’) hasn’t exactly been hurtling out of British shops, with sales failing to reflect the 30,000 pre-order sales T-Mobile claimed before the launch.

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  • The Queen Visits Vodafone HQ (Videos)

    The Queen Visits Vodafone HQ (Videos)The Queen visited the head offices of Vodafone in Newbury last week on 14 November – perhaps to make sure that she got hold of her Blackberry Storm :)

    There is that joke that the Queen thinks that everywhere outside of Buckingham palace smells of paint, because everyone redecorates before she arrives.

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