Category: Technology

Karlin writes in the Guardian on the trials and tribulations of installing RedHat Linux.

The Washington Post has a story on Verizon’s plans to rollout ultra wide band technologies in the Washington DC area. During tests they achieved speeds of up to 600k/sec while moving – and up to 2.4 Mb/sec while stationary. Impressive.

Newsweek contributing editor Deborah Branscom has linked to me today, in a story about the media in the US. She was also mentioned in Wired’s lead story today. She cites my story and Karlin’s story from Irish radio last week – in which BBC journalist Kate Adie made some remarkable claims. The Wired story is…

Robert Cringely’s article this week makes for some intereting reading. In it he suggests that spam companies should pay us for getting their annoying emails. After reading lenghty reader contributions on the spam issue Cringely quotes one that he agrees with – a guy who once worked in direct (snail) mailing – “I was once…

I have received numerous replies to my piece on Google. Among them was criticism from Chris Gulker and Steve Jenson. Steve is a software engineer in San Francisco, working on Blogger and other Pyra inventions and now for Google. He has written a lengthy critique of my piece, and has recently been posting here about…

Over at gulker.com Chris has said that he read my article and called it a “good compendium of all the creepy, and worse, unexplained things about Google”. Thanks Chris, will add you to my links and read your site more often. And so the meme spreads. And it also seems that I am in with…

With the recent acquisition of Pyra by Google, more people are beginning to ask: What is Google up to? When Google was launched it promised the world – a new way to search the web and vastly superior searches to any of its competitors. It quickly became a phenomenon – the most visited engine on…

Bernie has picked up a story on a new EU law that could be interpreted as making online protests a crime.

Fellow Irish blogger Karlin has bought a new Apple powerbook. Since I have been considering a portable computer, and I have read a couple of reviews lately of Apple’s iBooks, I am now increasingly tempted to ‘switch’ to Apple. Hmm. What to do. I think I will leave it a while, but Apple is definately…

CNET is asking the question, is Google changing? With the acquistion of Pyra, increased selling of ads, it asks if Google is changing for the better or worse. I have also been following much interest in relation to the privacy of Google searches. I am concerned with the cookies Google is using on my computer,…