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Waving or drowning?
Earlier this year I gave a talk on cloud security at the e-Crime congress. One of the other speakers was John Suffolk, who when he wasn’t struggling with some very badly formatted PowerPoint [1] asked the audience ‘who in this room thinks they are keeping up with technology?’. I think I ruined his script a […]
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Tags: Classen's law, keeping up, Moore's law, technology
The network isn’t ubiquitous
and probably never will be. My brother has been moving house this week, which has caused him to spend a certain amount of time off net, and to get very angry with BT (though it all got sorted out in the end [1]). Sadly my suggestion to get a Vodafone 3G dongle doesn’t seem to […]
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Tags: 3G, BT, economics, network, network fallacies, telco, three strikes, wifi
Update (3 May 2010) – I’m getting increasingly sick of how often this machine fails to record things. Worse still I’ve even seen it say that it’s started to record something, but when I go to watch it there’s nothing in the list. Reliability is awful compared to when I first started using it. I’m […]
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Tags: dtr67320t, freeview, pace twin, PVR, sagem
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
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