So, despite Jobs' denials and Apple's usual insane secrecy in order to build crazed hype, it was the long-awaited (and delayed) video iPod that was launched yesterday. Aside from worrying that this latest iPod will...
Another “Techno-bile” column from me this week in The Guardian. This week I'll be mostly ranting about computer security. Here is: Technobile Instead of terrifying us with tales of doom, software companies should write programs...
I have finally found time to produce a podcast covering the controversial topic of Internet governance, piecing together some of the most important remarks made tome during the PrepCom3 conference in Geneva. Included is the...
I have a fan. Mr Scaife of York appears in The Guardian's tech letters page today. It begins with the delightful words “Kieren McCarthy is right”. LOL. I may have to photocopy it and send...
There's a piece of mine, a broad summary of the situation wrt Internet governance, in The Guardian today. Quotes from the UK representative, US ambassador, Nitin Desai, Milton Mueller. Not a bad piece on reflection....
I've finally had enough of Opera, even with the no-ads latest version that I have. I am sick of things just not working in my browser. And so I'm moving to Firefox – with all...
My second column/rant has appeared this morning in the Guardian. It is a somewhat sanitised version of the original – no mention of skunk, broken legs and no f-words – but pretty much the same....
Well, it's 3.15pm Geneva time and the afternoon session of Sub-Committee A at PrepCom3 of WSIS at the UN in Geneva will start in 15 minutes. What does all that mean? That for the next...
The first Thursday of the relaunched Guardian, and hence the first revamped Technology section, and I've got a humour column bit in it, called Technobile – although that reads to me like “Tech Nobile”, like...
I was very nearly tied into a 12-month contract with T-Mobile. In fact, I only had two days left before my seven-day grace period with my new phone ran out. The issue was that I...