Lycos have released a screensaver that will flood the urls used by spammers to sell their wares. Effectively what Lycos are setting up here is…
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(Direct link to the paper in pdf) Or as my colleague Jo Twist @ BBC is putting it, “could the eBay trust model be adapted…
Comments closedMy neighbour (who I?ll call Tom) asked me whether I had Digital TV – he didn?t know anything about it and wanted to know more about it. And few weeks ago, I spent a couple of days with my parents in the family home ? despite owning a Freeview box, they don?t seem to use it at all.
With only 50% of UK homes having Digital TV, these two events started to make me think about what is wrong with Digital TV and why people simply aren?t getting it.
One CommentI was clearly not the only Ben to notice the comparative size of the new PSTwo and thus it’s portabability. In fact Ben Heckendorn was…
Comments closedLooks like AOL are about to ressurect the Netscape brand to produce their own branded version of Firefox. My heart wonders why they can’t just…
Comments closedNeed to replace all occurrences of a substring within loads of fields in a MySQL database table your using? Try… update [table_name] set [field_name] =…
7 CommentsLondon based Privacy International are recommending that a mandatory flash be built into every camera phone so that “illicit photography” can be prevented. Now, I’m…
Comments closedIf you’re a Radiohead fan you’ll love the work of Rodeohead (mp3) As Ade put it – “simply genius”
One CommentSo, it looks like the guys at MSN Search Beta have been tweaking their algorithm (ooh er Mrs 🙂 ). A search for “news” seems…
Comments closedSo, Microsoft/MSN have launched their new search engine (in beta). After the initial problem of their servers being overloaded with “please come back later” messages…
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