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happygeek in a Nutshell
I am an English geek with the perfect job: I write about technology for a living. Something I've been doing for a couple of decades now.
For the past 14 years I have been a Contributing Editor at PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK, as well as a contributor to... (Read Blog)
Just when you thought the spam problem couldn’t get any worse, comes the news that spammers are fighting back against the pro-active anti-spam community approach using tit-for-tat Denial of Service attacks and intimidation.
The Blue Frog anti-spam approach is a relatively simple one of ‘hit...
Read More | May 5th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: May 18th, 2006
In an astonishing display of pique, Google (the new Microsoft) has complained bitterly to both the US DoJ and the European Commission about Microsoft (the old Google).
What exactly has the Boy God Gates done to annoy billionaire double act Brin and Page so? At the risk of reading like a Monty...
Read More | May 3rd, 2006 | Comments: 7 | Last Comment: May 14th, 2006
Belkin has announced the launch of their N1 range of next generation wireless routers based upon a new WiFi standard that could extend the range of existing ‘wireless-G’ solutions by a factor of 4, and speeds by as much as 12. This might bring out the excited little geek in me, were it not for...
Read More | May 2nd, 2006 | Comments: 9 | Last Comment: May 4th, 2006
Blog Stats: Entries: 428 | Views: 1,186,878 | Last Entry: 11 Hours Ago | Overall Rating: 
Recently I've been selected to participate on quite a few of the google 'beta' projects, such as analytics, Company based e-mail, and their google page maker.
First off, let me just say that all of the google projects are wonderful. I've been playing with the google analystics recently and the...
Read More | Mar 24th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Apr 1st, 2006
Blog Stats: Entries: 13 | Views: 26,500 | Last Entry: May 19th, 2007 | Overall Rating: 
Bram Cohen, the creator of bittorrent.com has signed a deal with the Movie Industry, that is hoped will reduce the number of pirated films, shared on the Internet, via the website. The deal means that BitTorrent must remove any links to pirated films.
The deal between the Motion Picture...
Read More | Nov 24th, 2005 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jan 3rd, 2006
Blog Stats: Entries: 4 | Views: 5,417 | Last Entry: Nov 24th, 2005
iNet Interactive, a company that holds the titles on some of the largest web development and discussion communities on the net, was acquired this week by a group of investors, a company press release reports.
Stoddard Hill Capital bought iNet from Aberration! Ventures, and terms of the...
Read More | Nov 11th, 2005 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 1st, 2007
Telephone customers who use the relatively new Voice over Internet Protocol technology to power their phones need to understand how 911 dialing works. If they don’t, they’ll lose their phone service, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
Here’s the reason: In the past, when...
Read More | Aug 29th, 2005 | Comments: 11 | Last Comment: Feb 4th, 2008
The internet corporation for assigned names and numbers, a non profit group that oversees the assignment of domain names, top level domains, and other addresses, has caved into pressure from “ignoramuses� – and delayed the approval of the .XXX top level domain. ICANN’s new TLD was designed...
Read More | Aug 19th, 2005 | Comments: 7 | Last Comment: Aug 21st, 2005
It looks like internet access prices will remain steady, and could even rise, in the near future. The Federal Communications Commission ruled in favor of corporate America today, saying that phone companies no longer need to share high speed data lines with independent internet service providers at...
Read More | Aug 7th, 2005 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Aug 8th, 2005
The Associated Press is reporting that US lawmakers are considering whether or not to allow cellular telephones onboard commercial airline jets.
A subcommittee of congress debated the issue in July, but many members of the panel quietly voiced their disapproval of the measure.
The Federal...
Read More | Aug 2nd, 2005 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Nov 16th, 2005
Blog Stats: Entries: 55 | Views: 115,214 | Last Entry: Nov 28th, 2005 | Overall Rating:
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