While other media companies look at merging their broadcast and catalogue divisions with online broadband delivery companies, (Comcast & Universal) Jeff Bewkes the CEO of Time Warner is placing his bets on content distribution agreements. But just in case that doesn’t work, he’s placing a side bet on owning the distribution methodology, whatever that [...]
I used to run a BBS in the eighties. The famed KKK. Koltai's Kakadu Konnection. The technology to run a BBS required many hours of dedication and weeks of waiting for new widgets/gadgets, and hours waiting for the overnight UUCP email responses from technical support in the USA and England. I used a combination [...]
The 101 key keyboard Last year, Microsoft patented the up/down page keys on your 101 key keyboard. They didn’t actually patent the keys, because of course they don’t make the keyboards. They patented the functionality of Page up and Page down, This surprised me, because I remember in the years before Microsoft, using both [...]
What the hell does that mean? OK – In layman's language – The Cavalry is coming……. Every so often a piece of software comes along that has the ability to change the world. Napster proved it by causing a permanent disruption to the music industries monopoly on physical distribution. Google have proved that, by [...]
Today’s article is only for open minded individuals. If you consider that all conspiracy theories are garbage and are not open to the what, why, how and when, then please go and join a monastery and put in a request to come back in the next life as an ostrich. The content industry has [...]
Since 1973 (when I sent my first CQ CQ CQ on Father Allardyce’s ham radio at St Patricks College in Silverstream, NZ) I have officially been a geek. This was compounded during my University days in New Zealand, Australia and Hungary where I joined every radio club available. In Hungary radio clubs were [...]