Posts Tagged: Technology

I know I said I was taking a break, but there is a conclusion to the Psion netbook trademark fiasco that I felt I should publish for completeness. It seems that Psion and Intel have reached an “amicable agreement” and that Neither party accepted any liability. In light of this amicable agreement, Psion has agreed to waive… Continue Reading ›

Intel is joining Dell in challenging Psion’s claim to the netbook trademark. I realise that Dell and Intel’s motives are purely commercial, but I dislike the patent and trademark litigation culture that has grown alongside the technology industry. I agree wholeheartedly that companies’ ideas and designs should be protected, but only when their claims are… Continue Reading ›

As an ex-Psion employee, I was disappointed and a little saddened to learn of Psion’s spurious trademark claim to the word netbook. Psion was once a great technology company, practically inventing the PDA, creating some classic hardware designs, and creating the operating system that powers a huge proportion of today’s smartphones: Symbian. Psion launched the… Continue Reading ›

You may have seen the news that Google has added a tasks application to its Gmail email service. Well, the even better news is that since they recently added Google Labs to Google Apps email, I get to play with it also. I’ve tried a number of task apps over the years and not found… Continue Reading ›

I mentioned in my earlier post A Quick Chat About Netbooks that I had had problems with both my Eee PC and a new MacBook ; so here, as promised, are the details of my circular journey from netbook to netbook. When Jas interviewed me at FOWA I as using an Eee PC 901 and… Continue Reading ›

A week has passed since I started my RSS diet, which brings the experiment “phase” to an end. “Will you be going back to RSS?” I hear you ask, and the answer is no, I will not. I really expected to find not using RSS difficult, that I would be spending more time on websites… Continue Reading ›