Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
I’m usually an aggressive early adopter of new gadgets, but I’ve not been able to bring myself to buy an e-book reader yet. This is mostly due to the DRM deployed by Amazon, Sony etc. and the consequences that has for how I would use the books and what would happen to them in the future. As […]
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Tags: DRM, e-book, e-reader, kindle, nook
Mini review – 3 MiFi
I had great hopes for MiFi. I was going to be like Pig-Pen from Peanuts, just with fewer flies and more connectivity. I would walk the earth with my own little bubble of Internet goodness. No more messing about with dongles for the netbook. My iPod Touch would become like an iPhone (just without voice). […]
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Tags: 3G, hotspot, mifi, mobile, review, wifi
Techlust – Nokia’s ‘Booklet’
I’m having a bout of tech lust today following the news about Nokia’s ‘Booklet‘. There have been lots of disparaging comments from various quarters that it’s just another Windows 7 Netbook. But that’s missing a couple of key points: It has HDMI out. I really don’t care if this can’t drive a full HD screen […]
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Tags: 3G, HD, HDMI, netbook, techlust, WWAN
Monitising the freetards pt.2
In this post I’d like to explore whether P2P could be the basis of a business model that would directly fund the creation of content. Think do with P2P what HBO did with Cable (HBO 2.0?).
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Tags: content, DRM, freetard, music, p2p, torrent, tv, video
Monitising the freetards pt.1
The going rate for ratio is in the region of £0.50/GB – approximately the same as physical storage. Let me restate that – people will pay as much for the ability to download content as they will for the empty physical asset to store it on. Also bear in mind that bandwidth is getting cheaper at a different rate to storage – so right now we’re passing the crossover point – the ‘freetards’, or at least people in their community are willingly paying more for ratio (=bandwidth) than they are for disk.
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Tags: content, copyright, DRM, free, freetard, marketing, music, p2p, torrent, tv, video
Tied down
One contract for voice and data, and enough SIMs for the devices that I wish to use – is that too simple? Am I asking for too little?
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Tags: android, dongle, iphone, mobile, pre, telco, tether, WWAN
Netbooks are small, not crippled
Suggestions that people will give up their netbooks for ‘real’ machines once there is some kind of economic recovery are in my opinion ridiculous.
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Tags: netbook
Netbook nirvana
In my recent technology timeline post I bemoaned the fact that there seems to have been an innovation drought for the last few years (at least where it comes to life changing gadgets) and wondered whether the netbook I had ordered (but not received) might change that? Well… I’ve had the netbook for a few […]
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Impedance was one of those things that I really didn’t understand until I did my degree in electronics engineering. For those of you that are interested WikiPedia is as ever a good resource, though the short version is that matching is all about ensuring efficient transfer of energy from source to load. I can’t recall […]
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Tags: data, derivatives, education, experience, impedance, model, quants, risk, semantic, training, web, xml
My technology time line
Charlie seems to have kicked off what might become a geek meme over at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/02/technology_timeline.html I’ll break from my usual tradition of not mentioning brand names. Many of the brands I encountered are now consigned to the history books, others are still going strong. I don’t imply any endorsement, choices were mostly down to what […]
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