Weekly Roundup, Friday 29 September, 2017
Good morning Thank you this week to the very kind additional 61 readers who joined this year’s annual fund-raising drive during the last week, bringing us to 186 kind souls to date. And, of course, …
Good morning Thank you this week to the very kind additional 61 readers who joined this year’s annual fund-raising drive during the last week, bringing us to 186 kind souls to date. And, of course, …
In April 2016 Delta announced an order to buy 75 of Canadian company Bombardier’s new CS100 commuter jets. Bombardier was desperate to get a validating order from a US airline, and indeed, desperate to get …
Boeing Bullies Bombardier, Bamboozles Bureaucrats Read More »
For the longest time, I’ve been plagued by mysterious problems with various USB devices I have connected to my computer – particularly hard drives. I’ve even trashed some hard drives and replaced them, thinking them …
Good morning It is a great pleasure to start off another week with another round of heartfelt thanks to the people who generously added their names to our 2017 Supporters list. We are now at …
When airlines feel a desperate need for some good press, there are several standard things they can do. They can offer up any empty bit of corporate jingoism that is dutifully parroted by a slavish …
Why You’re Never Going to See Bio-fuel Powering a Commercial Airplane Read More »
As we have anticipated for a while, Amazon have now released a new 10.1″ screened Fire tablet, the Fire HD 10, addressing an increasingly painful gap in their tablet product range. As hoped for, the …
New 10″ Big Screened Amazon Tablet, Amazing $150 Value Read More »
Good morning Well, what a week it has been, some of it good, some of it disappointing. Let’s talk about the good first. Our Grand Tour of Great Britain next June had another person sign …
Apple’s management of its iPhone range may be extremely clever – but just perhaps, increasingly it may be the opposite. Yes, we of course accept the iPhone’s extraordinary success by all measures to date, and …
Apple’s Growing Jumble of Obsolete Under-featured Phones Read More »
Update : We wrote this article in September 2017. Of course, since then, there’s been three new generations of Apple phones released, and hundreds of new Android phones too. We recommend you see our November …
Android’s Answer to Apple : Excellent Phones for Only $50 Read More »
Today was Apple’s official launch for its new range of iPhones. The event started off with a short tribute to Steve Jobs, but some of us were wondering what Jobs would have thought of the …
Good morning Although official summer continues for another two weeks, traditional summer has finished, the schools are back, and traffic patterns, at least in Seattle, are returning to their terribly jammed state. Perhaps Amazon’s announcement …
Surely you know all about Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and the now literally thousands of other internet video streaming services. The internet has progressed astonishingly – do you remember, seemingly only ‘yesterday’, when the internet …