Weekly Roundup, Friday 20 October, 2017
Good morning A nostalgic farewell wave to AOL’s Instant Messenger – another technology and company that started off on the leading edge of something that had yet to be given the name of ‘social media’, […]
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Amazon’s New Fire HD 10 – Good After the Initial Disappointments
As promised, deliveries of Amazon’s astoundingly affordable $150 10.1″ Fire HD 10 tablet started arriving on Wednesday – in my case, in a ridiculously large-sized box 50 times larger (yes, I was so curious, I
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 6 October, 2017
Good morning Happy birthday to the lovely and now undeniably old 747. It was 49 years ago on 30 Sept 1968 that saw the ceremonial roll-out of the first 747. It is interesting to see
Google’s New Pixel 2 Phones
Google’s own phones (albeit made by a varying range of third-party manufacturers) – in the past sold under the Nexus brand and more recently under the Pixel brand – have a tiny market share (about
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,
Boeing Bullies Bombardier, Bamboozles Bureaucrats
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
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Solving USB Connection Problems
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
Weekly Roundup, Friday 22 September, 2017
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
Why You’re Never Going to See Bio-fuel Powering a Commercial Airplane
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
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New 10″ Big Screened Amazon Tablet, Amazing $150 Value
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
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 15 September, 2017
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 Growing Jumble of Obsolete Under-featured Phones
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
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