Archive for 'Technology'

A Bad Week For The Cloud.

The world is abuzz with talk of the next big thing in computing, the cloud. Well this week my experiences have told me one thing, the cloud sucks, it is the biggest pile of BS since the bailout of the banks. First, Google Mail (gmail for the US) failed. Leaving customers both on hosted and [...]

last.fm vs TechCrunch

Being the heavy user of Last.fm I was a little concerned when techcrunch broke the story that supposably, last.fm had given the RIAA, information pertaining to users who had scrobbled any tracks from the Upcoming and undrealeased U2 album. The fact I can’t stand the rose tinted glasses wearing, Irish Hypocrite is beside the point. Firstly, what got me [...]

This week I was on the internet and found this…

Psystar Continues to be a thorn in Apples Side

In an interesting twist, Computer World is reporting that a federal judge ruled last week that the Mac clone maker Psystar can continue its countersuit against computer maker and Mac OS developer Apple Corporation. Neowin So what is Apple’s next move, well thats quite simple. If you can’t beat them fairly beat them unfairly. I can [...]

Apple Bans Facebook – Not So Sure.

Well at least some stores are banning the popular social networking sites from the instore computers. While alot can be said including that its an evil move by a big corporation. Although it is since been found out that Apple is not doing this by a policy and it appears only a handful of stores [...]