net.wars: All change
by Wendy M Grossman | posted on 09 January 2009 in Features
Every so often you wake up and discover the future is hitting you with both fists. The US media is (or are) having such a moment. First, besides the usual reasons for the news being all bad – scare stories sell papers, the economic news really is all bad – journalists themselves are feeling the pinch. Newspapers in the US are in a dire state. And second, next month the US is due to switch off analog broadcast television, a change for which the country seems insufficiently prepared. (And think of the waste in dumping all those perfectly functional TV sets!)[more...]
Touch my iPhone there, and you'll have to [NO CARRIER]
by Guy J Kewney | posted on 06 January 2009 in News
There are plenty of iPhone users who think Bluetooth isn't ostentatious enough, it seems; someone has decided to use fax modem technology on audio to swap business cards. Specifically, a free iPhone app for download from the Appstore.[more...]
Your Bluetooth device? It's annoying me. $500 fine...
by Sniffer | posted on 05 January 2009 in News
Brighton (America) has decided that having no local ordinance to ban "being a nuisance" is a handicap. The lack has allowed irritating people to avoid the Law for too long. It has, reports the local paper, taken steps to fix this.[more...]
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