DoesWhat has been following the (troubled) progress of the Elonex ONE. It’s sub-notebook to rival the likes of the Asus Eee. The device was hailed as the first sub £100 laptop (sub $200 roughly), however in total with the addition of delivery the laptop costs £110. Originally we weren’t sure if Elonex was up to the job. [...]
Written on July 31, 2008 | Posted in
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Cuil, previously Cuill (before it went public), pronounced ‘cool’ launched (properly) on the 27th July. With millions in funding they’ve managed to create an incredible amount of hype for a search engine not worthy of such attention. Cuil is a new Google competitor that claims to have indexed 121,617,892,992 web pages that they say is [...]
Written on July 29, 2008 | Posted in
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If you read DoesWhat then you’ll know that we’ve been observing the Elonex ONE’s progress. The Elonex ONE is a sub-notebook and the UK’s first sub £100 notebook (not really, as they charged us £10 on top for delivery which wasn’t optional, so £110 really). We have had our worries, but it seems that Elonex [...]
Written on July 11, 2008 | Posted in
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After over 5 days of using the Nokia E71 it’s charm has not yet warn off. The E71 is Nokia’s answer to the Blackberry, over the past few days the bombardment of; “is that a Blackberry” has become somewhat of an annoyance. But really, this is a Blackberry… but better (clearly not literally, it’s a [...]
Written on July 7, 2008 | Posted in
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Almost a month ago we reported Google’s reluctance to comply with Californian law (Google’s battle of beauty versus law). The California Online Privacy Protection Act states that a commercial website that collects data about it’s users must, “conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Web site”. We stated, “So, it turns out that for five [...]
Written on July 4, 2008 | Posted in
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It has been over a fortnight since the infamous Firefox Download Day, today we received an email from Mozilla stating that everything has been checked and the record for the most downloads in 24 hours has been officially broken/created. It seems however that the email was slightly delayed and actually it was official yesterday (02 [...]
Written on July 3, 2008 | Posted in
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Today we received an email from Google stating that ‘AdSense Referrals’ is ‘retiring’ from Google’s AdSense service. Something that actually wasn’t completely unexpected. Our experience with it showed us that it was really fairly weak (especially compared to the standard you expect from Google services). It was a sort of ClickBank clone except not just [...]
Written on July 1, 2008 | Posted in
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