Amazingly, some companies just don’t seem to get it. Many maintain that “customers come first”, but their actions indicated otherwise. Dutch electronics giant Philips is one of them. According to The Register, Philips is attempting to patent a technique that would prevent viewers from skipping through ads embedded within recorded programmes or even channel surfing… Read More: The advert enforcer »
eWEEK‘s Larry Seltzer posted an opinion piece saying that surveillance cameras that monitor public places don’t violate anyone’s privacy because nobody has an expectation of privacy out on the street.While this may seem like a timely debate about freedom versus security given the current circumstances, check out my earlier post on this issue dating back… Read More: You already have zero privacy – get over it. »
How about something that will give him/her pause? Like a bed that integrates the iPod, allowing the user to listen to his/her favourite tunes without waking up the next day with earbuds stuck dead in the ears. That’s what New Zealand bed maker Design Mobel’s II Pause iPod Bed is all about. Dubbed “the world’s… Read More: What do you give the iPod owner who has everything? »
An old joke, but makes you think hard about the “wonders” of technology and why “con”sultants are a much loathed bunch, especially in IT. A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni… Read More: The cowboy and the yuppie »
First, there was Google Earth, a three-dimensional, satellite-based mapping service that allows you to view any area of the Earth in detail. Then came Google Moon, which shows locations of all six Apollo moon landings. Yesterday, Google expanded its galactic reach by launching Google Mars, on the occasion of the 151st birth anniversary of Percival… Read More: Google reaching for the stars »
Whichever way you call it – Origami, Ultra Mobile PC or Lifestyle PC, it’s hard not to get sucked into too much of the hype generated from CeBIT. Like the Tablet PC and Pocket PC that came before it, Origami uses the pen as its main mode of input, although some prototypes are slates with… Read More: Origami: Death of the Tablet PC as we know it? »