Wow, really?

I wonder how her customers have taken that statement.

Her customers are, of course, the advertising companies. Facebook users are merely assets.

Windows 9...

...will style a modern 'retro giant pixel' look. Curves and anti-aliasing are so last year.

This year's fashion!

1. Grey is in

2. Grey on grey is HOT

3. ALL CAPS IS BACK!

Link

Seeing as the 'Buy from Amazon' link at the bottom of this article helpfully suggests the riveting books 'All About Joints: A Maintenance Guide' and 'The Science of Beauty Therapy', may I suggest this rather more helpful link to the free download of the remake, available for Windows, OSX, BeOS and Linux:

http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/index.html

Try reading your sources before hurrying out a story

The Pirate Bay dislike these sites for charging users for access, not for 'copying' TPB's material.

In fact they actively encourage proxies.

Neither of the quoted articles mention 'trademark' once.

I'm sorry that the facts aren't bending to the convenience of your article, Andrew.

I bet all of them ticked the consent box without reading the full terms and conditions.

*sharpens knives*

Rather than picking on their English, you could always conduct domestic Spanish business in, you know, Spanish. Being in Spain and all.

Three versions, eh

So there's three versions of Windows 8 in the same way that Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a trilogy?

Good enough for private, not sure about business, but it's inevitable

Dropbox is good enough for me. It syncs files between my work PC, home Mac, work iPad, home iPhone, girlfriend's Windows laptop, etc. Does so very efficiently, quickly and without any fuss. In fact I prefer the experience on the iPad way more than using any of Apple's own file syncing features. I can't figure out exactly what iCloud is meant to do either.

A lot of our staff use it for work. I've given it a dubious OK, as long as they don't use their accounts for ANY customer data; make sure their accounts are registered with work email addresses, not home; and make sure the computers they access them comply with our security specifications.

I know Dropbox may be far from perfect but I prefer it to the alternatives:

- USB keys, which have a common habit of walking off

- Emailing documents to their private accounts

- Printing absolutely everything off

- Me being ultra paranoid and banning access to any data outside the network, which will just make it harder for people to do their jobs

Ice Cream Maker

I think this list is missing an ice cream maker - mine gets regular use. Unlike most of the items here (soup maker etc) its functions cannot be replicated with other kitchen implements.

Homemade ice cream is a revelation - a million times better than supermarket crap and a lot cheaper to make than premium brands.

The Cuisinart ICE30 a pretty good one. No need for the fancy ones with built in chillers, unless you're a chef - two litres of ice cream a day (with a good 12 hours to freeze the bowl again) is going to be enough for any home kitchen.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cuisinart-ICE30-ice-cream-maker/dp/B001D650FA/ref=pd_cp_kh_1

I've heard good things about the Ben & Jerry's ice cream recipe book, too.

Great top ten article

This is relevant to my interests.

However, I have had a Imperia pasta maker for over a decade and have used it a sum total of... once. Most of the other items would get more everyday use from me, as they reduce the amount of work, not increase it. (Comparing homemade pasta to dried, at least - I was disappointed by my sole experiment and went back to quality dried pasta)

Ian Ferguson has tagged Angelina Jolie in 34 Dream:ON™ dreams.

I'm pretty sure this has advertising potential, too. How much does the developer want to insert subtle whisperings about lovely refreshing Diet Coke?

Wipe it?

"Podhradsky advises privacy-conscious gamers to remove the hard drive from an XBox and wipe it using a data-scrubbing program before giving away or sell their old console."

Well, that shows how my Podhradsky knows about the XBox. Even if you remove the HDD and plug it into a PC, you won't be able to scrub the data and keep it working, as the format is deliberately different to any PC file format. I guess you could wipe a magnet over it, but then your XBox wouldn't work any more. There's no easy way of formatting an unformatted disk in the XBox format; or at least, no easy way for regular consumers.

I used to work in the assisted technology field

The lack of innovation was mindboggling. The same outdated software and hardware solutions were being sold a decade after their invention.

The main reason for this was lack of sales to fund R&D. Assisted Technology has a tiny target market, and one solution may be all a customer requires in their entire lifetime. Prices for most solutions matched; despite their obvious datedness.

This has resulted in several stifling patents; generally you'll find exactly one highly priced product per solution, and aggressive defence of their niche market.

"The modern mandarin is no longer a patrician High Tory; he's probably a Guardian-reading, carbon-offsetting Coldplay fan - with a risqué Tinie Tempah playlist for dinner parties."

Only Andrew Orlowski can complain that our government leans too far left.

Paranoid suspicion aside, this sounds like a Good Thing to me. Greater transparency and compliance with the Data Protection Act (whereby a consumer can request a copy of all personal data held on them by a company) is good.

Made for tablets

Angry Birds Space seems designed for the iPad, whereas the first game was designed for the iPhone.

Not necessarily a bad thing, just an observation. The original's levels were clutter free and simplistic; Seasons, Rio and Space have got progressively more complex, graphically speaking.

It's good fun, and marginally more of a puzzle game than the original. My main complaint is the lack of content - only two groups of levels - although I hope Rovio continue their strategy of releasing more levels for free.

It's also irksome to be presented with a third group of levels ('Danger Zone') that cost another 69p to unlock. I'd really prefer one upfront cost. Not to mention that the 'eagle' feature has also been monetised - a few eagles are gifted on completion of the golden egg levels, but they'll run out pretty quickly if you want to gain the 'feathers', and you'd need to buy more at an extortionate cost.

All considered though, it's still fun at a minimal cost.

Same as pilot's watches

I have a pilot friend who wears a £1k Breitling watch. He would argue that he needs the accuracy. I would argue that a free crystal LCD watch from a packet of 80s cereal would provide as much accuracy as a precision-engineered mechanical watch.

It's purely a fashion thing, no more than your Abercrombie & Fitch shirt or Alienware PC.

16 'incidents'

Is this bad? Compared to what?

No clue is given as to whether the system is more or less accurate to the old paper system. Given that it removes large portions of human error, I'd hope that it works out as more accurate as it beds in. Teething troubles are always expected.

Unless they logged errors with the old system with the same tenacity over a similar time period, this is pretty meaningless.

Well... duh

"numerous owners of the new iPad report putting it next to their laptops and finding the signal strength to be notably less on the iPad"

Bigger/multiple antenna = better signal strength. Hardly news.

Also, using mobile data costs more than using wifi shocker, news at ten.

No local pornographic services

Thank god for that, I was expecting to have to find some way to block a localised Isle of Wight Babestation. *shudder*

So if I've got this right, an Anonymous hack led to the ending of a vital information leak to the opposition activists, by making Assad abandon the account that was being spied on? Way to go Anon, another feather in your cap.

When will people learn

not to trust PayPal an inch. It's not just their T&Cs to be wary of - but their unbelievably minimal, bottom line driven customer service.

His only hope is publicity. Negative publicity is the only thing that has saved myself and many others from PayPal resolution hell.

This is LTE

The iPhone 4S can use LTE. It's not lying, it's just a propagation of the vague specifications of '4G'.

To be fair, other phone manufacturers are doing this, so Apple is just joining in.

These problems are exactly why the TLD explosion is a stupid idea. It was ICANN's responsibility to manage addresses, and they've failed.

Fairly mediocre selection of games if you ask me. Whizzy graphics but little to no gameplay value.

Top iOS games to me would be Super Crate Boy, SpellTower, Tiny Wings, Orbital, Beat Sneak Bandit, Minotron, Drop7, Reckless Getaway, DrawRace2 and Quarrel. Not to mention Infinity Blade II and Angry Birds.

Loving it. Most inventive gameplay mechanic I've seen since Braid.

Still none the wiser

From their website:

"CBOSS (Convergent Business Operations Support Systems) is a transnational corporation and one of the world leaders in the development of innovative convergent IT solutions for end-to-end automation of telecommunications companies, delivering a competitive edge to telecoms across the globe."

Could mean anything, frankly.

Any business that relies on booth babes is not going to be taken seriously by me or anyone other than chauvinist dinosaurs. It hardly gives off a modern 'world leader' image.

What?

"Kairuku was more than a foot taller than the modern Emperor penguin"

...

"In reality, Kairuku was around 4-feet, 2 inches tall or so"

How does that class as giant? And what's the last time you saw a 3 foot tall Emperor penguin?

Instead of gimmicks designed to pull in higher ticket prices, I wish they'd realise that cinema is no longer a premium experience, and drop ticket prices to bare-minimum levels to compete with home entertainment.

Surely nobody seriously believes this seat-vibrating tech will become 'a new standard'. It's incredible enough that 3D has kind of taken off, and that's with a truly astonishing combined effort from Hollywood, cinemas and home entertainment manufacturers.