Posted By Malcolm Owen On July 16, 2011 at 7:10 pm Comments Off

In what could be described as a collection of corporate entities attempting to have their cake and eat it, newspapers from Belgium are complaining about being delisted from Google.
Under normal instances, this would signal the death of a website, but in the case of  Copiepresse (the organization dealing with copyright management for the papers) they [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On August 2, 2010 at 12:40 pm Comments Off

Gamers at the PC Gamerz gaming centre in Hawaii were robbed by some idiots. Sadly, despite the apparently evil and sociopathic nature of gaming presented in mainstream media, no-one did anything to stop them… until they tried taking someone’s DS.
The owner of said DS decided to fight back, which prompted everyone else to wake up [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On July 6, 2010 at 9:24 pm Comments Off

It’s not often that Tesco’s advertising makes me want to say good things, let alone Tesco warranting a blog post on a tech site, but they’ve done it.
In this advert, Tesco Mobile manages to pastiche the generic empowerment and “blue sky thinking” that you get in the average mobile phone adverts and give a basic [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On April 21, 2009 at 1:27 pm Comments Off

As someone that really should be on the cutting edge of technology, it seems strange, but after a long and painful battle with my conscience, I have something to admit.
It’s taken me a while, but I am now a user of Twitter.

I know, I’m late to the party again, but hear me out.
When this microblogging [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On April 20, 2009 at 10:57 pm Comments Off

Every once in a while, your mobile phone may stop making and receiving calls and texts. This happens to be the most common technical issue with handsets where I work, and stems from the fact that the phone simply stops updating on the phone network. Most handsets do this every few hours and can miss [...]