From the monthly archives:

December 2008

More UK censorship could be on the way in the name of “saving the children”

December 27, 2008

BBC NEWS | UK | Website age ratings ‘an option’“Mr Burnham, a father of three young children, believes internet-service providers should offer child-friendly web access” Many UK ISPs already offer “child-friendly web access”, by including bundled parental control tools – BT, for example, includes them with all of their Total Broadband packages. Mandating that all [...]

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Possibly not the most informative release notes ever

December 24, 2008

Up there with Apple’s classic “Bug fixes”.

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Private APIs and Apple’s role as the iPhone policeman

December 23, 2008

John Gruber has posted one of his usual thoughtful pieces on the role and usage of “private” APIs in the iPhone – APIs which exist, but are not part of the public frameworks which developers are supposed to use. John makes many good reasons not to use such APIs – the most important of which [...]

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Steve Jobs has been ill. Is it any wonder he wants to cut down the keynotes?

December 17, 2008

Joe Wilcox is right: Apple used a standard move from the PR playbook to push the really bad stuff down the agenda. In announcing that Apple would no longer be attending Macworld Expo and – almost as an side – that Steve Jobs would not be doing January's keynote speech, was trying to push "Death [...]

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The real “I’m a PC guy”

December 11, 2008

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Is Apple recession proof? The answer is “no”, but…

December 11, 2008

Jason O'Grady has a good post summing up the theory (first espoused by American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu) that Apple is "recession proof". In fact, I think there's good reason to think that the opposite it true, but also that the bright points for Apple outweigh the bad ones. Where the iPhone sits The [...]

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Pointless DRM fails yet again

December 10, 2008

The DRM on Nokia’s “Comes with Music” service has, it seems, been cracked (or more accurately, bypassed) already. When will they learn?

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Are some UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia?

December 7, 2008

It looks like Wikipedia has fallen-foul of the long reach of the Internet Watch Foundation, which has decided to block pages on it. The main offending page is dedicated to the rock band The Scorpions album "Virgin Killer", which featured on its original 1976 sleeve a pretty tasteless image of a naked pre-pubescent girl. Try [...]

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5 things Apple needs to fix in the iPhone

December 4, 2008

A couple of people have asked me to enumerate the five things which Apple needs to fix if my next phone is to be an iPhone, so, in no particular order, here they are. 1. Open up development I don't want to have to buy my applications via a single store. I don't want Apple [...]

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