Author: Gary

I love Mr Biffo, in a heterosexual manly way of course. Today he’s writing about homeworking: When you tell people you work from home, the first thing they usually ask is: “Don’t you find it difficult to get motivated?” Well, yes. But that’s a given in any job. I’m no more distracted working from home…

I’m sure this is of no interest to anyone but me, but I’m celebrating an anniversary of sorts: my first ever bit of published writing was for .net magazine back in issue 51, and I’ve just finished a feature for issue 151. That’s eight years, 100 issues (give or take a few) and – a…

As widely predicted, Carphone Warehouse does a Freeserve and offers “Free Broadband Forever”. 8Mbps, 40GB monthly usage limit, £29.99 connection fee and no monthly cost if you pay line rental to Carphone Warehouse instead of BT and sign up for the £9.99 per month international calling plan. It’ll be interesting to see if they can…

Tech startup Webaroo wants to offer the internet on a Flash drive, according to Networkworld.com: Webaroo does it, [the firms Brad Husick] says, through “a server farm that is of Web scale” and a set of proprietary search algorithms that whittle the million gigabytes down to more manageable chunks that will fit on a hard…

Over at Daring Fireball, the ever-readable John Gruber states the obvious about Apple: it makes more money from selling hardware than it could ever make from selling software. He writes: For any idea, ask yourself this: Would it help Apple sell more Macs or more iPods? If the answer is “no”, Apple isn’t going to…

I’ve been thinking about Boot Camp some more, and I maintain that it’s a genius move. Inevitably the Apple fanboys are predicting the end of Microsoft and a big headache for Dell, but I really don’t think that’s going to happen. I do think Boot Camp (and Leopard, when it ships) will give Apple a…

In no particular order: * They’ve just opened up Apple hardware to gazillions of potential buyers, including corporates and gamers [Gazillions is a technical term]. * Microsoft will be quite happy: they can sell XP licences to Mac owners now. It doesn’t affect Virtual PC sales (assuming VPC is coming to Intel Macs), and Microsoft…

CUPERTINO, California—April 5, 2006—Apple® today introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. Available as a download beginning today, Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac®, and once installation is complete, users can restart their computer to…

Not my words: that’s a comment by respected industry analyst Mark Mulligan from Jupiter Research. He says: They claim that file sharing has cost the UK music industry 1.1 billion pounds over the last 3 years. I’m sorry but that is piffle. The UK music industry in 2002 was worth just over 2 billion pounds.…

Today’s technobollocks story comes via Engadget Mobile, which links to a report that criminals in Cambridge are using bluetooth to locate hidden laptops – and nick them. According to Cambridge News.co.uk: MOBILE phone technology is being used by thieves to seek out and steal laptops locked in cars in Cambridgeshire. Up-to-date mobiles often have Bluetooth…