Category: Technology

If mobile speeds are going this way, as they seem to be, DSL is going to have to do some serious work to keep up. I heard a rumour of the default DSL service going from 1Mb to 2Mb, with an increase in upload speeds included. Also noted are plans by Magnet to roll out…

Hot off the news that ITV are now broadcasting ITV1, 2, 3 and 4 free to air in Ireland, including all regional variations on the Astra satellite, TV3 are now looking at suing ITV. …the Irish broadcaster, whose other big shareholder is the Canadian CanWest company, has hired London lawyers to argue that ITV should…

When someone working for Google in California visits, the following information comes up in Sitemeter… Domain Name google.com ? (Commercial) IP Address 216.239.38.# (GOOGLE) 216.239.38.136 ISP GOOGLE Location Continent : North America Country : United States (Facts) State : California City : Mountain View Lat/Long : 37.1894, -121.7053 (Map) Language unknown Operating System Unknown Unknown…

Liam Noonan reports that I will have to retune my satellite receiver to pick UP the newly free to air ITV1,2,3 and 4. Up to now I have received ITV3 free on Astra with ITV 1 & 2 encrypted. Update: Actually I didn’t, they were tuned in already. All the ITV regional variations plus ITV2,…

As an owner of an iPod nano I can say that my one at least is incredibly easy to scratch. Even sliding it into your jean pocket, as Jobs demonstrated at the launch, was enough to mark the colour screen. I will be posting detailed photos shortly.

Can anyone from the podcasting/audioblogging world recommend a good high quality but inexpensive microphone?

Simon over at Dossing believes that weapons in space is ‘utter balloney’ and will never happen. I disagree, the motivation is there and the goal is too big a prize not to achieve. There are lots of possibilities besides the lasers or missiles Simon suggests. I did like Michael Goldfarb’s piece in the Weekly Standard…

I tend to agree with Damien Mulley, you might find people watching rather, ahem, interesting videos.

Has Sliabh been hacked?

Hot on the heels of VeriSign’s acquistion of Dave Winer’s weblogs.com, Ebay have announced they are acquiring VeriSign’s payment processing business for $370 million. This will mean an expansion for PayPal.