Archive for August, 2011

Big news small change

by t3dphil ~ 24th August, 2011

The summer holidays generally lead to ‘silly season’ news. Some of its funny, others make headlines but won’t make much change. In the world of technology we have seen a few of the latter in the last couple of weeks: The Big Apple So it emerged that Apple has more money than the US government. ...

Riot: How FB fed the flames and Twitter put them out!

by t3dphil ~ 10th August, 2011

What a sad (#UKriots) and at the same time uplifting (#riotcleanup) few days it has been in the UK. Riots in areas of London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham and Liverpool have shown the worst side of their “communities”. I could write

Grand Theft Electro

by t3dphil ~ 3rd August, 2011

In Laws: The British government has laid out new plans this week to stop companies requesting ISPs block copyright infringement websites. This has come after the Motion Picture Association managed to successfully lobby BT to block a website that helped locate copyright infringed material (music and movies in layman’s terms). Along with this it has also been ...