Ricoh, best known for the kind of office machines bought by people who still call things ‘office machines’, has launched a cloud archive service called quanp. continue
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Puh? Meh
on 1 July 2009
Another butterfly, another wheel
on 19 June 2009
So Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who appealed after being told to pay $220,000 for illegally sharing a couple of dozen music tracks via P2P, now faces an increased award of $1.92 million. continue
Hiding their light under a firewall
on 8 June 2009
So the Sunday Times is the latest paper thinking seriously about charging for its online edition. continue
Lost by design
on 5 June 2009
ACT 1: A man’s eye in close-up. As we pull back, we see he’s lying in a forest. A white labrador with the face of ex-Apple CEO Gil Amelio runs up and tugs at the hem of the man’s black turtleneck. Steve Jobs – for it is he – follows Gil to a beach, where there seems to have been a plane crash. On closer inspection, the wreckage is that of a building, 1 Infinite Loop. continue
Print: use it or lose it
on 8 May 2009
Many legends tell of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. The myth of an irreplaceable source of knowledge disappearing overnight has haunted writers and historians continue
A triumph of Phorm over function
on 28 April 2009
Phorm, the targeted advertising technology that everyone’s been rather suspicious of since BT trialled it on live user data without telling its users first, has launched a website responding to its critics. continue
Faces of self-righteous posturing
on 20 April 2009
‘Their world was perfect. Their future promising.’ You know this kind of voiceover isn’t going anywhere good. continue
Apple has finally removed the DRM from its entire iTunes Store music catalogue. Copy protection has been the one serious bugbear with iTunes: it’s easy to buy and organise music, but whenever you swap it between Macs or to a different iPod, you risk a snippy alert saying some tracks aren’t authorised to play on that device. Well, no more. continue
Like dancing about architecture
on 3 April 2009
‘Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,’ as somebody said. I wonder what they’d have thought of writing books about computing. continue
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Journalism as we know it: baby, bathwater
on 30 March 2009
In a Guardian interview, David Simon, the bloke who did The Wire (which I still haven’t seen, lamentably, though the BBC2 total rerun starting tonight might do it), says corruption in US local politics will run riot as the newspaper business collapses. continue
adambanksdotcom @flayman I'm honestly encouraged though by AAPL. World's top company makes useful stuff, sells it, doesn't piss about manipulating people