25th November 2006 Archive

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• The BlackBerry Pearl

  Confessions of an analyst I take it all back

  A couple of months, I committed the cardinal sin of criticising a mobile device without actually having used one. When I posted my initial reaction to the BlackBerry 8100 “Pearl” here, I was bothered by the thought that RIM had sold out its loyal business users by bowing to the pressure of the consumer market and cluttering the …

  Mobile 25 Nov 2006, 07:02

• NHS record access pilot due next year

  I am whoever I say I am

  The Care Records Development Board (CRDB) is preparing to pilot online patient access to medical records, it said this week, but it hasn't yet worked out what kind of authentication procedures or security system it will use. The pilot, which is expected to involve around 50 patients initially, is slated for "some time next year …

  Public Sector 25 Nov 2006, 08:02

• Yellowed guinea pig serves time for paper storage

  Letters And the missing letters round

  You know how it is. You have a mobile phone. You use it regularly, so you keep it in your pocket, where it is easily accessible. Then it goes yellow. You what? We can only wonder: what has it got in its pocketses? My understanding of the position is that you have a contract of sale with the company which provided the phone ( …

  Letters 25 Nov 2006, 10:02

• Web 2.0 and Tim O'Reilly as Marshal Tito

  Comment Forward to the (distributed) revolution

  As the Web 2.0 bandwagon continues its rapidly accelerating path downhill towards the inevitable crash we find ourselves at another turning point in the development of the networked world. Ten years ago we were faced with a choice between the controlled homogeneity of the ‘information superhighway’ or the many and various …

  Music and Media 25 Nov 2006, 10:02

• Mast debaters strike again, ban Wi-Fi in UK schools

  Sensitive tissue

  Two new and baleful reports about "microwave radiation" revived the mast hysteria in the UK this week: one, an attempt by "3" to build a new phone tower and the other, a series of schools claiming ill effects from Wi-Fi. By coincidence, both reports were written by journalists with the same surname. Joanna Bale wrote in The …

  Mobile 25 Nov 2006, 18:25