Category: Technology
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Interesting article in Vanity Fair about Microsoft’s problems. What I hadn’t previously realized was that they use the stupid “stack ranking” system. Maybe it worked well at GE in Jack Welch’s days - it’s possible that firing 10% of employees every year was a smart strategy for them – but whoever thought that was the…
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I have been waiting for a long time for Now TV and Cable TV to provide the facility to record programmes (as Sky TV do in the UK with Sky+), but there’s still no sign of anything useful. Step forward the MTV 7000D, which allows you to record programmes from Now TV and Cable TV…
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Identical, but from UPS… Dear customer. The parcel was sent your home address. And it will arrive within 7 business day. More information and the tracking number are attached in document below. Thank you. © 1994-2011 United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
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Three spelling mistakes and poor grammar. And sent to an email address I never use. Dear customer! The parcel was send your home address. And it will arrice within 7 bussness day. More information and the tracking number are attached in document below. Thank you. 2011 DHL International GmbH. All rights reserverd.
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The iPad 2 will be "thinner, lighter and will come with a faster processor, more memory and a more powerful graphics processor." Right. If it was thicker, heavier or slower that would be news. I still don’t want one, though I realize that resistance is futile and one day I will succumb.
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The combination of the lower price and improved contrast won me over. After thinking about buying one of the earlier Kindles but never quite being convinced that it was a good idea, I really couldn’t resist the new Wi-Fi only model at US$139 (plus US$21 for delivery to Hong Kong). However, there is a problem. …
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What is it with people who design upgrades to software? I was prompted to ”upgrade” my Nokia PC Suite to Ovi. This brilliantly designed piece of software thinks that I want to copy all the music and podcasts from my PC to my mobile phone. I don’t. And there isn’t space. Never mind, it just goes ahead…
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I see that HSBC are going to stop sending paper statements (unless you are either old or willing to pay). I subscribed to this service a year or so ago, and I have probably only downloaded a handful of statements since then. Why? Because it’s a complete nightmare to use, that’s why. I have no…
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After the browser, the operating system. As with the Chrome browser, it would appear that Google’s main interest may be in prompting Microsoft to respond. If Microsoft can offer a cheaper (and smaller) OS to run on Netbooks, then that will bring down prices and encourage more people to go online more often – and…
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This week's Economist suggests that the Kindle might be the saviour of newspapers The growing popularity of electronic books could offer hope for newspapers THINGS are suddenly hotting up in the rather obscure field of electronic books and their associated reading devices, the best known of which is Amazon’s Kindle. A new, sleeker version of…
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