Posts by James 51

Sounds like a good reason to avoid all those mentioned in the article. Are there any alternatives though?

I wonder how long before this gets spung pro/anti EU in the British press. Seems like once again the EU is protecting people from their goverments.

I'll be hanging onto my Q10 for a while longer then. Excellent keyboard, removeable battery and micro sd. Never found the OS to be buggy but then I started off on 10.2.1. There needs to be a viable third choice that respects the people buying the phones as customers rather than thinking they are the other product they are selling.

"is to give a phone the ability to detect whether the person carrying it is the right person – for example, by walking style."

So when this tech makes it's way into criminal's phones, if they run this way all the evidence on their burners will self destruct?

Where as in the UK refusing to hand over the password would be the way the police would get them when they can't do it any other way.

I'd love to take OneDrive out of the equation. Save a file the other day and hadn't noticed that after an update OneDrive was set as the default save location again. Bloody aggravating.

I am sure there is a good reason to not use a Pi and take advantage of all the work done on it. I'd like to hear it though.

I bought my kid the kid's tablet for last Christmas and it is dire. If it's possible to store downloaded video from amazon and the iplayer on the sd card I might take a punt on the £50 tablet. Otherwise I'll stick with my playbook (or just buy a Z30 and stick the micro sd card in it and it should allow me to do everything the tablet can and a lot more although it is just over three times the price).

So, how long till the burning platforms memo is dusted off?

The tablet looks interesting though I'd wait for the Jolla 2 phone now before I'd get one.

I dont' think it is an own goal any more than Blackberry supporting Android and Apple handsets in their server software is. It's recognising that people might have their sights set on something and it's better to get a smaller slice of the pie than none at all when that is the case.

When I look at ebooks and there's nothing I want at a price I want to pay I just go to the library and dip into their catalogue. Might have have the latest and greatest but there's usually something I wanted to read and it's free*.

*I know we pay for it in taxes but it's free at point of use.

Amazon had the orginal pebble on sale for £70 a little while ago. Regretting not getting one now.

Thanks for the warning.

The goodspeak 'savings' annoys me. It's a cut and that how it should be framed. The Met can no longer afford to do it's IT in house so has farmed it out to a company that can use commercial confidentially to block FOI requests. It might work out but how often do you hear about deals like that?

I wonder if it runs over budget (like lots of other public sector outsourcing contracts) who picks up the tab?

Balance from BlackBerry would help deal with some of those issues but it was interesting that it was missing from the list of devices.

I thought the toilet project was about solving the sanitation problem without access to a water main. The drinkable water was just a bonus.

In general, how vulnerable are platforms like BB10 and Sailfish that have app compatibility with Android to exploits aimed at Android?

'Windows Phone and BlackBerry didn't get much of a mention, with one speaker pointing out it was only worth investing time cracking operating systems people actually used.'

Ouch. Though I thought there would be more kudos is breaking BB10 as security is one of its main selling points. Perhaps it is harder to crack and because it is less popular, less media interest in any exploits found.

How many days ago did the UK government announce it was time to purge Oracle from the public sector?