Miscellaneous Weekly Roundup
After a slow year last year (and lots of great value bargains) it seems that river cruising in Europe is booming once more. Most of the river cruise companies are reporting strong bookings and many cruises are already …
Cellphones & Wireless
Big Brother Wants to Watch You More Closely
Have you ever noticed how most legislation that is introduced to protect us against terrorists seems to end up doing little or nothing to help us ‘win the war against terrorism’, while adding another layer of inconvenience and …
Apple’s Stupid iPad Shipping Policy
The extraordinary and largely undeserved success of Apple’s iPad is all the more extraordinary when one understands that its sales numbers are being achieved in spite of, rather than because of Apple. Here are three policies that would …
iPad 10 reasons to love, 10 reasons to hate it
Blogsite gearpatrol.com offers two articles, one with ten reasons to love an iPad and the other with ten reasons to hate it. Puzzlingly, some reasons (eg web surfing) appear in similar form on both lists. So which list …
Survey : 15% have had sex while driving
Leading Bluetooth headset manufacturer Jabra has just released the results of a survey about what we all do when we’re driving – other than keeping both hands on the wheel and concentrating on the road ahead, that is. …
BlueAnt Q1 Bluetooth Headset review
The BlueAnt Q1 Bluetooth Headset becomes the 17th in an ongoing series of Bluetooth headset reviews that I have published. Not only is it the 17th in the series, but it succeeds in listing all 16 previous headsets, …
Miscellaneous Weekly Roundup
The website hotels.com has just released a list of what it deems to be the top ten hotels made famous in the movies. It is a curious list, with some very notable omissions, most particularly the Hotel de …
iPhone Tethering and iPad Implications
People privileged enough to be testing the latest Beta release of the iPhone 4.0 firmware have uncovered a new feature which hopefully will end up being released in the production version of this software. This is the …
Technocell PowerPak Universal Charger/Battery review
Every different rechargeable battery powered device these days comes with its own charger. This is usually unnecessary, because 90% + of all such devices are powered by 3.7V lithium ion batteries, and have most of their ‘charging intelligence’ built …
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EcoCharge USB Power Supply
Did you know that the brick power supplies you use to charge your various electronic devices keep using power whenever they are plugged in, even if they are not charging anything? Does that shock and horrify you? …
Google retreats further from its Nexus mistake
Google’s decision to start selling phone hardware as well as giving away phone software has always been hard to understand. Google has enjoyed – and continues to enjoy – tremendous success with its Android operating system for smart …
Android phones now outsell iPhones in US
In the first quarter 2010, Android phones outsold iPhones for the first time ever. But both types of phone were outsold by another brand.
