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Tax Dodging
Shaming companies who avoid tax, although legally, is big news at the moment. Whether it’s Google, Amazon or Starbucks no-one seems to avoid massive headlines, being pulled before MPs and the more extreme members of public refusing to shop with these companies.
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When is spam not spam?
Spam. We all hate it. Our email services normally complete with filtering services to try and keep it at bay. But what is spam? According to Wikipedia, it’s… the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages (spam), especially advertising, indiscriminately Sounds about right. But, where does Twitter’s targeted adverts fit into this?…
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The iPhone 5s and the Foil Hat Brigade
Since the iPhone 5s was announced, complete with its fingerprint detector, comments have been awash with people assuming that using it will mean your fingerprints reported back to the NSA. The fact that Apple have said otherwise seems to hold no sway – the fingerprint data is held on the phone and is never sent…
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Upgrading a PS3 hard drive
When I bought my PS3 (the slim model) I have a choice between the 160GB and 320GB models. As I had no intention of storing music and photos on it I thought the former, cheaper, model would be fine. I was wrong. I didn’t account for 2 things – 1) the size of games and…
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Rory Cellan-Jones – is he biased?
It would appear that whenever Rory Cellan-Jones, technology correspondent for the BBC, posts any new articles he immediately gets accused of being Apple biased. What’s the evidence? Let’s look at his most recent articles for the BBC.