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Is Apple about to unveil a tiny laptop?
If you’re bored with 3G iPhone rumour mongering, here’s an alternative bit of speculation from MacUser: Considering that Apple has an OS perfectly suited to running on small, low-power devices, that it knows where the laptop market is headed, that it has implemented a flash-based storage system already, and that it has a close relationship…
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Jurassic Bark
Dog cloning. Is this real?
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Emo ho ho ho
The ever-brilliant No Rock’n’Roll Fun, reporting Emo fans’ plans to demonstrate outside the Daily Mail, made me laugh like a drain: Hundreds of angry young people wearing black shirts marching up and down the streets of London. That was the sort of thing that Mail loved back in the 1930s, wasn’t it?
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Fun with lifestyle photography
The Asus Eee PC has a new face: a cheery, wine-drinking housewife, as shown on Reg Hardware. But it’s a lie! It’s just a lifestyle shot with some salad removed and an Eee PC ‘shopped in! The original, Eee-free version is here, courtesy of Reg commenter David Gosnell. It’s a sad day when you can’t…
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The Home Office has gone completely mad
A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials. The…
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Shop surveillance
Oh, for crying out loud. Shopping centres can monitor people’s movements by tracking their mobile phones. The technology could “identify unauthorised individuals”.
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Digital music: still shit
Record labels are losing their battle with digital piracy as the number of people who regularly download songs legally falls back, research will claim today. That’s in the UK where, by an incredible coincidence, the overwhelming majority of digital music is still sold with DRM. Elsewhere in the Guardian, in a piece by Tim Anderson:…
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Music business to Apple: give us more cash, for no good reason
Apple want to sell over-the-air downloads – that is, music you buy over the phone network – and the record companies want to charge more for them. As ever, John Gruber nails it (but he perpetuates the HST misquote about the money trench*): The music labels think we should pay more for a song downloaded…
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A thorough film review by Mrs Bigmouth
Speed Racer: shite.
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Evernote: organise your life
Evernote looks interesting: it’s an information organiser for PC and Mac with some clever features including web clipping and the ability to email photos to it from your mobile phone. It then scans the pics and runs character recognition on ’em. It can also store audio and video, and seems happy with Office files and…