05 Nov 2007
How feasible is the personal communications hub?

Sometimes known as "unified messaging" this has been tried many times heretofore, in software and in hardware. It's never quite worked. Yet.

How would we like to use mobile technologies in the future? The answer seems to be that we'd prefer to consolidate all of our messaging and calls to a single device.

(link) [The Register]

06:55 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link

Guy Fawkes Is Spared, and England Is Restive

How long before this level of madness spreads west across the Atlantic, and our Fourth of July celebrations are reduced to running around yelling "Boom!"?

In the face of increasingly onerous regulations, none of the usual fireworks, bonfires or burning of effigies to celebrate Guy Fawkes day will take place in York this year.

(link) [New York Times]

06:46 /Politics | 1 comment | permanent link