I agree with points one and two but as for three, there's an old trick of deliberately undersupplying the market when you've got it cornered (in this in the new shiny) to keep your cool/scarcity factor in place and justify the high asking price.
Posts by James 51
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Sorry, Apple-haters, but Cupertinian doom not on the horizon
Chinese boffins crack cloaking tech for camouflage
Cautious Brits less likely than US firms to puff on clouds - survey
RIM's Heins beams: BB10 must walk the walk before we talk the talk
Greedy Sky admits: We crippled broadband with TOO MANY users
There are plenty of towns in the UK that don't have a range of providers. It's pretty much BT and whoever is reselling access to their lines. When I moved to a new address sky was slower than a dial up modem. They did say their fibre which was six months away from rolling out but would only guarantee speeds that slower than using my 3g phone as a modem. In the end had to go with BT fibre to get decent service but that is in large part because at least 95% of the houses in my area use sky.
UK taxmen turn heat on tax-swerving big biz, hope to smoke out £1bn
‘Anonymous’ hacks Oz Uni’s email to protest bulk iPad buy
Re: Apple is a locked down NIGHTMARE
Unless the ipads are completely locked down it will be possible to download malware floating around in the app store. Plus lets not forget the story about schools in America which give students laptops then randomly took photos of them using the webcam.
A properly configured playbook would have all the same advantages. ipads are very poor value for money. This is probably to be cool and attract students or it's someone's pet project.
Engineers are cold and dead inside, research shows
Re: Doctors caring & empathetic?
Agreed. The head of the maternity unit where my wife had her baby couldn't connected with patients in any way beyond talking at them. Some of the mid-wives were the same. The older they were the more likely this was to be. Perhaps they start out caring then prolonged contact with the public works its magic.
What ereader decline? Kobo pumps up the volumes despite grim forecasts
Top Brit Penguins spurn London Stock Exchange for NYSE
I remember reading an article that said lots of companies floated in the US rather than the UK because the US markets use a different formula to calculate the value of a company. This normally resulted in the companies stock demanding a higher price and I image that people like the ceo and others who have been paid in shares might want to take advantage of that. Of course there could be a snow ball effect going on here as well. i.e. following the other big tech companies to the markets they have floated in.
Korean boffins crack art of bendy batteries
Here we go again: New NHS patient database plan sets off alarm bells
Every time I hear about something like this I want these clauses to be written into the data protection act or something similar:
anyone found in breach of their duties e.g. lax security lets hackers in/leaves usb drive on train/sells details on to third party or passes them onto another department for same company personally faces an unlimited fine and serious jail time along with some senior people in the same company. The company can be fined too oh and the government department with oversight gets a kicking also.
Harsh I know but given the track record of data security both from government and private companies I don't see an alternative.
UK falls behind in global graphene patent race
RIM adds 15,000 new BlackBerry 10 apps in one weekend
Stroppy investor to Xyratex: Pah... research! Who spends money on THAT?
Disney World slaps pay-by-bonk stalker cuffs on grown-ups
Vodafone goes titsup for BlackBerrys in mobile data outage
Texas schoolgirl loses case over RFID tag suspension
Sony PS3 extends lead over Microsoft's Xbox 360 by a cool million
ZTE to launch Mozilla-based phone in Europe in 2013
A pre-ticked box in web forms should NOT mean consent - EU report
'Not even Santa could save Microsoft's Windows 8'
I agree with Sir Wiggum, microsoft (and intel) killed the netbook. I have a netbook and a tablet. The keyboard is going on the netbook and the tablet is no replacement. Not going to buy another netbook because they are disappearing fast but don't want to carry a full sized laptop around wtih me and can't afford an ultrabook.
5.6TB helium disks could balloon, lift WD onto enterprise throne
Apple loses round to Amazon in 'App Store' name dispute
US patent office: Nice try Apple, but pinch-to-zoom is NOT a new invention
After Sandy Hook, Senator calls for violent video game probe
Plasma boffins' POWERFUL wind now a key clue to fiery Sun
Forget about fondling that slab... within 2 years, it'll fondle YOU
Review: Eurocom Monster W110ER gaming netbook
Bolshy investor sinks teeth into weakened Emulex, tears off another chunk
Pentagon hacker McKinnon will NOT be prosecuted in the UK
From various media reports it seems like he was little more than a script kiddie, using manufacturer default passwords a lot of the time to gain access to various system. His biggest problem was that he made them look like fools and that is more unforgiveable it seems than actually doing some harm.