Toblog

Criminal Profiling – Just Cold Reading Tricks?

The history of Nokia mobile phones

iPhone first night: a flop in the UK
... makes me proud to be British again ;).
... more from Idiot Toys

Government Ignores Personal Medical Security

Ballad of Beatrice Guessie
... sometimes one can’t help but come to the conclusion that we are ‘ruled’ by scum.

Bike sex man placed on probation

Apple Users Talking Class-Action Lawsuit Over iPhone Locking

comp.risks 24.84
... including some important evoting stuff

Russia marks 50 years of Sputnik

Nick Drew on how Gordon’s blatent borrowing against the future and off balance sheet shenanigans are slowly coming home to roost

The Usmanov Affair hits Slashdot

Michael Robertson on why AnywhereCD failed

Microsoft to buy minority stake in facebook

Apple: firmware update likely to make unlocked iPhones ‘permanently inoperable’
... or: Apple: This phone you bought from us, right? You can’t do what you want with it.

Statewatch analyses The EU’s draft Reform Treaty

Burmese riot police attack monks

Euro realist MEP Tom Wise uses parliamentary privilege to spell out the allegations against Alisher Usmanov

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Allow the Red Arrows to Fly at the 2012 Olympics

California Voting Machine Audit Results
... am a bit late on this one but the results aren’t good if you are a voting machine manufacturer.

Teachers in websites closure call
... [11:44] Frank Chalk’s sane take on it

Apple takes flak as AT&T drops iPhone bomb

Vote to send the Spice Girls to Iraq

The iPhone can damage wi-fi – apparently

The Modern (Australian) Trojan Horse Saga

Sydney urged to pack for attack

‘Horrifying’ number of firms breaching data protection

Dollar falls to record euro low

Baby mammoth discovery unveiled

Probably the best iPhone video you’re likely to see

Apart from the lack of 3g, the dire amount of storage and the lack of video, and the lock in to iTunes:

Apple is understood to be demanding that its European mobile phone partners hand over a significant proportion of revenues generated by the iPhone and restrict the content that users can access. [My emphasis added]

From: Vodafone put off by Apple’s demand for big iPhone slice.

Now, 3 tried this and look how successful they have been. Look, Apple / whoever the hell gets the bloody exclusive contract: give me access to what I damn well like or I’ll never ever buy your overpriced bit of hype.

Exclusive contracts are crap for the consumer anyway so I’m certainly not going to be moving from my current provider just to get it, even if I were sad enough to want it more than anything else in the whole world.

[hat-tip to Tim]

Manchester chosen as site for first Super Casino

Polish lace makers move into underwear

China made iPhone look-a-like appears

tubePing: Connecting London’s tube community

Apparently the SCO/IBM case is still going on, but now SCO have admitted that they might not win

Lord Levy re-arrested for attempting to pervert the course of justice

Red Arrows may face axe in latest round of defense cuts

‘Look on my works and despair’: NHS Blog Doctor’s analysis of the malaise in the running of the NHS

Say no to the Supercasino in Greenwich

The iPhone: it’s also a hard to use cell phone

Goodbye 2006, Hello Digital Rights Management

New reality TV show will put martyrs in Paradise

Brian Haw wins his latest legal battle to prevent his protest in Parliament Square

British Law Database online, searchable and free

Humphrey Littleton’s videocast about his book
... the book is on Amazon here

Shock as UK rates rise to 5.25%

Cisco to sue Apple over iPhone name

Bombing raids on Somalia failed to ‘get’ terror suspects ‘shock’

One year to save NHS, Doctors say