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Offbeat analysis of the world of high technology. Subscribe to a feed of this Times Online blog at http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/rss.xml
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What does your laptop bag say about you?
From left, the Belkin backpack, Ally Capellino Mac bag and Muji messenger bag Are you a messenger man or a backpack boy? The bag that you choose to carry your clobber around in says more about you that you might...
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Apple shortchanges e-mail users with MobileMe update
Accustomed to basking in the white-tinged glow of its products, Apple is beginning to feel what it's like to be on the receiving end of some consumer rage. Last week it was the launch of its new iPhone, which despite...
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Radiohead's camera-free video clip
First came the album for which fans could pay what they liked. Now Radiohead has released a video which does not use a single camera, relying on laser rather than light to produce images. The images in House of Cards,...
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Want to get paid for your photos?
'Purple water lily', posted to Flickr by Subramanian Kabilan, a photographer based in Tamilnadu, India One of the saddest things about Flickr, the photo-sharing website, is that the many stunning pictures that are published on it do not make their...
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Study: DVD burning on the rise in UK and USA
Getting a DVD-R version of a film or TV show to play on an ordinary DVD player may seem like it requires a degree in computer engineering, but this doesn't seem to be stopping many of you. According to a...
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YouTube protesters congregate. On YouTube
Last week's landmark US court decision requiring Google to hand over the identities of YouTube users to the American broadcasting giant Viacom, parent of MTV and Comedy Central, is meeting a wave of protests online, with calls to dump Viacom...
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iPhone hippies queue for Apples
Among the less well known of Apple's achievements is an unexpected but still noteworthy milestone: it has turned the gadget queue into a political event. At the time of writing, a cluster of some ten or so apparent Apple fans...
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A glimmer of hope for the UK music industry?
It's been a long time since we've seen the words "strength" and "sales" used in the same sentence of a press release by Britain's music trade group, the BPI. Today, however, the group is breaking with the dismal recent tradition...
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Are online ID cards the answer to forgotten passwords?
A consortium of tech heavyweights led by Google, Microsoft and eBay's PayPal think so. They have formed the ominous sounding Information Card Foundation to push for the introduction of an online ID card that will act as a substitute for...
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Is multitasking turning us into unproductive dolts?
The New Atlantis explores this idea with a well-researched article concluding that our 'info overload' routine is a poor way to treat our brains. For starters, the practice of processing multiple stimuli simultaneously is, contrary to popular opinion, a time-waster...
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