Receiving "unauthorised" overseas satellite TV signals is not illegal under the Broadcasting Ordinance.  Yet a bar in Sai Kung wrote an open letter "admitting" that they had been naughty: "We did not pay the fair price for this programming. We now recognise that our actions were illegal and wrong. We will not repeat them." They…

The SCMP has dropped their weekly Technology supplement (again).  No surprise, really, because it seems to attract very little advertising, and recently it seems to have been padded-out with large photographs to fill the reduced space. Amusingly (but predictably) they have come up with a ‘positive spin’ on this, claiming that they are "shifting the…

Watched the TVBN (news) channel on Now Broadband TV on Saturday – they were showing scenes from the earthquake in Indonesia whilst at the bottom of the screen they had the Mark Six (lottery) numbers scrolling past.  Nothing incongruous there, then. And to think that it seemed like fairly outrageous satire when Whoops Apocalypse came…

Last week I mentioned that Jake van der Kamp had been caught out by an April Fool . He was big enough to apologize for this the next day, and not just as a footnote but in the headline and first few paragraphs of his column. Yet if you go to the SCMP website you…

Poor old Jake van der Kamp was caught out rather badly by an April Fool played by the Lion Rock Institute.  Phil spotted that the press release was a spoof, which is actually fairly obvious if you look at their list of anti-trust behaviour – there are some silly Hong Kong examples (McDonalds predatory pricing…

According to The Guardian, the BBC is testing testing a commercial version of their Interactive Media Player, which makes it possible to download BBC programmes to a computer in the seven days after they are broadcast.  This service is available free of charge in the UK, but the rest of us will have to pay…

I love this type of self-delusional nonsense.  Business Week is closing down its Asian and European editions, and has made 60 staff in Singapore redundant (SCMP via Asia Media).  They say that they are getting increased traffic on their website, so there’s no need for a different regional editions of the printed magazine.  The truth…

For the last few weeks I have been receiving an email each day from Asia’s dullest newspaper with a link to a PDF version of their newspaper (it may not be all of the newspaper, but I’m sound asleep well before page five, so I really can’t say). Global news for the successful decision maker,…

There was an interesting article in Business Week last week about PCCW and its Now Broadband TV service (sorry – I was waiting until it became freely available, but it seems that it doesn’t work that way and you may not be able to read it unless you are a subscriber).  The piece points out…