on 16 July 2009
Craig posted at Cult of Mac about Tim Langdell’s continuing attempts to sue anyone who uses the word ‘Edge’ (which, last we heard, was an English word) in a videogame context and now, apparently, to prevent anyone making any kind of game involving a sphere. In passing, Craig mentioned the characteristic use of an axonometric projection in marble-rolling titles, ‘commonly referred to as “isometric” continue
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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
on 3 June 2009
Referring to Daily Express articles speculating that Michael Owen’s footballing career might be finished, his solicitor, John Kelly, told a libel hearing: ‘These incredulous allegations are entirely without foundation.’ continue
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
on 23 April 2009
Apple has taken down an iApp depicting a crying baby that would shut up if you shook it. Let’s all have a moral panic! continue
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
on 3 April 2009
‘The violence perpetrated against so many around me over that hour was sickening and terrifying. Without warning, from around midnight, the police repeatedly and violently surged forwards’ continue
on 13 February 2009
To Cannes for the Midem 2009 music business conference. Oh all right, we didn’t actually go. continue
This month I decided to install WordPress. I wanted to update my blog from Blogger 1.0 to something that acknowledged the existence of any form of web standard other than ‘sod it, seems to be working’, and since Blogger 2.0 appeared to bear as much resemblance to Blogger 1.0 as Jordan does to her school photos, I thought I might as well switch to something more credible. continue
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