Just another Autorun file on a USB Mass Storage mount, absolutely no device OS interaction whatsoever.

Only a loon would claim a USB Stick is "riddled with bots"

It's also only one phone, So personally I would have gone with the "Vodaphone sells ex-demo phone as new, comes with malware" angle, but I'm just crazy like that.

"The Adobe Download Manager is an ActiveX script that is invoked when people install or update Reader or Flash using Internet Explorer"

Adobe, ActiveX, Reader, Flash and Exploder all in the same sentence, what are the odds?

Did the marketing droid pull a Dr Evil pose when he demanded that budget?

But that looks to me like a thick heavy laptop with the screen installed backwards, It's no surprise that guy's holding it with two hands in that press shot.

Which is that like it or not the world is moving to H264, day by day more flash content is being translated, no one that matters is announcing any Ogg Theora content.

IE users aren't going to switch to a browser that 'won't play' video on ideological grounds, they're just going to stick with IE or download chrome instead. Stop worrying about what's going to happen in five years time and concentrate on making sure you don't become a rounding error in the interval.

If FF is dominant in 5 years time, and it could be, then they'll have a lot more sway for dealing with any licensing situation, threatening to disconnect billions of users from video sites makes for really bad, really public PR.

You've got five years, make them count.

From the IT industry for a device that's going to allow the majority of our customers to finally use a computer as effortlessly as they use their TV.

It's not a big iPod, it's the tip of an iceberg.

"apparently killed 99.99 per cent of the tooth-rotting invaders."

So it missed a bit eh?

Every time I see an advert for a cleaning/medication product these days I notice there's always one bit of flu left clinging to the back of your throat, one dodgy green blob left untouched under the rim of your toilet etc.

I'm pretty sure that when I was a lad the products were better and cleaned up all the scum*

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* This comment created in a nut free environment, comment can not be guaranteed to be free of nuts

"When Apple launched the iPhone, it decided to go it alone, believing that punters would pay top dollar for the Apple product. It is one of the few mistakes Steve Jobs made"

Curious, because what I remember is long lines round the block at launch followed by 6 months of supply issues.

Apple releasing the phone like that was about setting the table with the networks, showing them how fucking lucky they were that Apple was allowing them to sell their überfone.

To Recap: No Network Subsidy, but Apple takes a cut from the Network subscription plan. Apple handles user details and phone registration. Apple handles all extra revenue services such as music & ringtones, Apple defines design and operation of device. Apple maintains and updates phone firmware, Network must include unlimited data with all iPhone plans. Network must heavily advertise device. Network must provide support for users of device. Network must never make direct eye contact with Apple.

This is also why it took so long for MMS, it was never technically hard to implement, it was simply another kick in the balls for the networks so they knew their place in the relationship.

It's coming up for 3 years since Apple went it alone and now they still have all of the above but now the network buys the phone up front, and all it cost Apple was adding MMS lol.

Oh, the tablet, it's going to be initially strong in the education market then branch out from there as specialist apps become available. You shouldn't read anything into any subsidies other than as an indication of Apple's stronger negotiating position.

1) Guy gets paid to run the city CCTV network.

2) Maintenance on the aging system is costing way more than anticipated.

3) Decides to fake some of the backwater broken cameras with old recorded feeds.

4) Profit!

5) Police CCTV viewers eventually notice.

6) Jailarity ensues.

The nuclear mars tank lays on its back, its belly cooling in the weak sun, spinning its wheels trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

"the iPhone and iPod Touch are computing devices, not merely phones and media players"

I assume this is true because underneath that oh so beautiful UI they run UNIX, a proper computer OS and no mistake, but if simply running *NIX makes something a computer then surely there are a whole host of gadgets & devices that also qualify as locked down computers that nobody thinks twice about; routers, external HD's with media serving capabilities, PVR's, TV's, games consoles, washing machines etc.

Fact is that pretty soon every internet connected product is going to be running either a cut down *NIX, or some other less capable OS, and pretty much everyone is going to want those things to run reliably, just like they did before they became computers. That your new toaster could run MS Office or the Gimp is unlikely to be seen as a feature if all the toast comes out with a cock motif burned in*.

*own up, whose been browsing porn on the toaster again?

<tone="sarcastic">A hot tip from Bill Ray regarding the iPhone?

Does this mean you managed to buy one before they quietly discontinued it?</sarcastic>

there's a few 'spot the soldier' shots here:

http://www.desertdeucesurplus.com/MultiCam.html

seems impressive.

I thought the whole point of a bits being fixed in one of two possible values was that you could write some data to them and be pretty sure it would be the same when you read it back in later.

Could someone explain (in numpty terms please), how 'all states at once' is a useful thing?

also, where is the *whoosh* icon?

"The popularity of Adobe software has made it a favoured target for hacking attacks over recent months"

Bullshit, Adobe software is a favoured target for hackers because it's both crammed full of bugs and suffers from Adobe's retarded focus on bloating with daft insecure features.

Reminiscent of MS in the 90's, and the reasons are the same: EEE

We interrupt these comments to bring you important news about a new computer that's allegedly Dee Oh A.

Our on the spot reporter Henry Bell is at the scene, "Henry, do we know if this is an Apple computer yet?"

"Not yet, the police have cordoned off the scene, we're expecting word any moment though, as you can see the crowd here has swelled considerably since the first "My new comp is DOA!!111!" tweet 15 minutes ago, although to be fair a lot of these people were already in the neighbourhood after reports of a bear defecating in the woods"

No service since 10:30am (almost 7 hrs ago), in South London. Network status page lists this outage but has no resolution time posted.

1) You need the old version, this is placed in the Trash when you update so if you haven't emptied it you can drag it to your desktop, otherwise use your backups* to restore it to the desktop.

2) Delete the current App from your phone and iTunes (Right click on App).

3) Double click previous App you dragged to the desktop, it will be imported to iTunes.

4) Sync.

*you do backup right?

I suppose if MS is going to leverage it's OS and Office profits in an attempt to unfairly compete in an unconnected market then it's always nice when they pick the sure fail.

Spending a year dead for tax reasons.

"And with just a click of the second button of the third row on the right hand side *click* I've switched to the oh, wait, sorry that only works in OODraw, let me just undo that with a *click* on the BUGGER!, no that was my fault, I knocked the joystick.. *click* and... *click* just a sec... *click* and there you go, rectangle tool selected!"

Company that plans to sell encrypted VOIP app for iPhone announces that unnamed VOIP app that doesn't have encryption, on a smartphone that may or may not be an iPhone, can be intercepted?

Instead of wasting an option on 'Probably' which was always a half-assed attempt to load the poll, they should have used options of "Yes", "No" and "LOL".

LOL is to intertnets what shave and a haircut is to roger rabbit.

"Microsoft will tell you it will slow down, we’ll tell you it will accelerate like crazy, but the truth is it’ll probably stop somewhere in the middle.”

The front carriages will tear free, the middle section will slam on the brakes leaving the rear section to pile into it?

If they sold 40,000 over the last 18 months they'd have a 1% failure rate, which sounds pessimistic considering how many of these I see in the field.

"if you advertise in Vogue, or in a football magazine, you expect to reach a specific kind of reader and the specific kind of reader expects to see a specific kind of ad"

What a fantastic criticism of behavioural marketing then, seeing as advertisers will find their ads running next to totally unrelated content and ditto for consumer expectations, it's Lose:Lose.

And the fix for that is to continue doing what they're always done (with proven track record), of advertising against content that's complimentary to their market, with a simple substitution of online magazines for printed ones.

"I think that other countries using 'Dollars' of their own shows a distinct lack of imagination on their part or some kind of sycophancy."

Back when Europe was building empires by annexing bits of new land, Britain, Spain and the Dutch tended to create local dollars for currency in their colonies.

So technically the Dollar is like a badge for getting pwned.

it was something about bells.