Mannerisms

Paranoia corner Has anyone else come across the phenomenon that, where there’s a paid WiFi connection, the free connections don’t work? Going through San Jose airport in October, there were about half a dozen network providers, one of which was free. I connected to all the others in turn but was unable to get onto the Web. Connect up to ...

Convergence is a lovely idea for the chip industry but a poor idea for consumers. The two best-selling products of the last few years have been the Blackberry and the iPod, both, effectively, single-purpose devices. One a mobile email terminal; the other a mobile music player. Both flying in the face of the contemporary mantra of convergence. For the chip ...

Seeing the other guy screw up is always a pleasure so it was good last week to see the truly awful state of the US wireless telephone network in Arizona. Whether you got to finish your call was problematical. Much of the time there was no coverage at all. The networks are grim in Europe. In Arizona they’re 3X grimmer. ...

Sir Robin Saxby’s Corona ballad, trailed back in October, is now released and can be enjoyed below. For those wishing to join in, the lyrics are added below the audio file. In a difficult time for everyone, especially those most affected by the virus, this is a special big thank you to the health professionals. Lyrics Analogue or Digital Feeling ...