iPhone part 2.0… Queue frenzy!
So, the new iPhone is out today. As existing owners definitely know, 90% of the benefits in the new phone lie within the new software. However, there is this one little thing that makes the new iPhone more appealing... 3G. 16GB of storage is also a good incentive to switch. Yes, the existing iPhone is adequately fast, but faster is always better... Also as described in the economics behind iPhone here, the new iPhone is free on selected tariffs (even though it ends up being more expensive in the long run than paying up-front) and that will definitely lure a lot of iPhone wanna-be's that could simply not afford the original phone. So, out of curiosity I popped down my local O2 and Carphone Warehouse store to see what was happening...
iPhone: Behind the clever marketing…
As any half-decent technology fan knows by now, the new Apple iPhone was announced last Monday, with UK having the privilege to be one of the first countries to welcome it on the 11th of July. So what has changed from the previous model? Frankly, not much, but just enough to get you thinking about it. Especially if you consider the incredible price of.... free! Tempted? Lets take a closer look...
Three strikes and you are… OUT! (Updated)
Over the past 24 hours, one piece of news seems to take the centre stage: Virgin Media to partner with BPI, the British Polyphonic Industry, to combat illegal music sharing. As the official announcement states, Virgin Media is piloting an education campaign, during which, customers found illegally distributing music will receive a notification letter from both Virgin Media and the BPI. The accounts will be identified by the BPI which in turn notifies Virgin Media that has the responsibility of distributing the notification letters. For our "piece of mind" none of the personal customer information will be disclosed to the BPI, or at least that's what the official announcement declares.
A word or two on the digital age
I can still remember the time when my folks bought me my first computer... It was back in 1996, a grey mini tower with the state of the art Pentium 133MHz processor, Diamond 3D graphics card, Sound Blaster 16 bit and a "massive" 15" CRT monitor! I kept that computer till the 2nd year of University, September 2002 and was still working perfectly! Of course, it took one hour to convert one CD to mp3's and literarly a week for ripping a DVD movie, but I was perfectly satisfied as I did not do anything else besides writting my university essays, coding and viewing the occasional movie.