By @edent · bigtent bigtentuk bigtentuk12 google politics student student loan willetts · 400 words · read ~165 times.
Last week I attended Google's Big Tent event. I may write about some of the panels later, but I want to focus on how I flummoxed the Minister for Universities and Science - David "Two Brains" Willetts (Photo by Paul Clarke) I posited to the Rt Hon Gentleman, that student loans were crippling the high-tech […]
Continue reading →By @edent · advertising asa scam valkee · 2 comments · 300 words · read ~614 times.
Regular readers may know that I'm not a big fan of Valkee - the magic light you shine in your ears to improve your mood. Back in September, I complained to the ASA about the Valkee website. I felt that it was making unfounded claims, was confusing testimonial with science, and was generally misleading. In […]
Continue reading →By @edent · Apps cadbury cadburyhack hackday mobile · 3 comments · 550 words · read ~509 times.
Before Cadbury's inaugural hackday began there were a number of rumblings on the blogs about the extact nature of Cadbury's intentions. See Thayer Prime's and Emma Mulqueeny's thoughts on the subject. As it happens, after a bit of gentle poking, some of the terms were clarified. The event itself went rather well, but I'd like […]
Continue reading →By @edent · iphone microsim mobile nanosim sim virtual sim · 28 comments · 1,000 words · read ~44,205 times.
The argument over the nano-SIM is a distraction. It's a sleight of hand designed to catch the industry off guard and fool it into doing something really stupid. The SIM is designed to do a number of things; encryption, address storage, hold SMS, etc. Most importantly, it's designed to be swappable. With GSM, you can […]
Continue reading →By @edent · crowdsourcing justice leveson ocr politics text · 1 comment · 500 words · read ~134 times.
I've already blogged about the Leveson Inquiry's disturbing habit of releasing evidence as scanned in PDFs. I had a suggestion from digital journalist Kevin Anderson @edent Put the Leveson docs up on Google Docs. I'd be curious how their OCR could handle them. Then click 'make public' — Mr Anderson (@kevglobal) May 11, 2012 Google […]
Continue reading →By @edent · feel mobile senseg tablet touch · 1 comment · 300 words · read ~218 times.
I had a chance to play with Senseg's feelable technology today - here's a quick video showing it off. The guys are (naturally) cagey about their product launch, but here's what I was able to glean. It will be multi-touch compatible. The tablet appeared to be Android - that's just the demo unit though. Developer […]
Continue reading →By @edent · 5 comments · 850 words · read ~882 times.
The entire premise of Red Dwarf rests on this one scene: Lister's cat is discovered because he takes a photo of the two of them and has it developed in the ship's photo lab. In 1988 - when Red Dwarf was first aired - nothing in the world seemed more natural than to get a […]
Continue reading →By @edent · bugs security twitter usability · 7 comments · 300 words · read ~5,241 times.
Did you know that you can to link to a specific Tweet on Twitter? The URL looks like this: https://twitter.com/#!/edent/status/197967209459499008 Pretty obviously, that's the user's name and the ID of their tweet. Simple, right? Not really, click on that link and you'll see this: That's my name in the URL bar - but the Number […]
Continue reading →By @edent · jquery json legal piracy Star Wars the phantom menace the pirate bay yql · 3 comments · 750 words · read ~6,897 times.
For reasons best known to themselves, certain sections of the entertainment industries seem to believe that bolting the stable door shutting down The Pirate Bay will stop all piracy. It's as though they think that people won't be able to use a proxy, circumvent the Cleanfeed block, or simply use a search engine to find […]
Continue reading →By @edent · ios iphone samsung Windows Phone 7 wp7 · 200 words · read ~401 times.
Last week, I posted this tongue-in-cheek suggestion. Prediction*: iPhone5 & Samsung Galaxy S 3 to have IDENTICAL hardware. Battle of the OS / ecosystems! *Well, wishful thinking! — Terence Eden is on Mastodon (@edent) April 26, 2012 Wouldn't it be great if there was a proper show-down between the two major players? You could really […]
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