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Second Life residents fret about possible bestiality crack down

James Cornelius — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:19:59 +0000

Second Life really is another world, one where the norms and values of this world don’t seem to apply. With Linden Labs cracking down on “broadly offensive content” such as child pornography, some Second Life “residents” are now concerned that there may be a crack [...]

Apple is a phony

James Cornelius — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:40:27 +0000

Apple is up to its old tricks. This time it successfully harassed an Australian journalist and his publisher into deleting a generally positive article about OS X Leopard entitled “Ten things you didn’t know about Leopard”.

Yes, that’s right, it was a positive article that talked about some of the [...]

The new class war: MySpace and Facebook

James Cornelius — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:10:24 +0000

“Good” kids gravitate towards Facebook; outcasts gravitate to MySpace, according to PhD candidate Danah Boyd.

Boyd’s hypothesis simple. MySpace has a reputation as being ”bad”, while Facebook, on the other hand, is all about going to college, and the values associated with getting an education. As a result, the two sites attract [...]

No sex please, we’re British, and we’d prefer our mobile phones

James Cornelius — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:12:02 +0000

Almost a third of young adults in the UK would prefer, if given the choice, to give up sex rather than their mobile phone, according to a survey conducted as part of the Mobile Life forum.

Mobile Life is a joint initiative of The Carphone Warehouse and the London School of Economics (LSE). The [...]

Do a virtual sex crime in Second Life, do real time

James Cornelius — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:38:07 +0000

Second Life is becoming a haven for sexual deviants and misfits, with a number of authorities around the world investigating sex crimes committed in the popular online virtual world. If the perpetrators are found, they may find themselves doing real [...]

Mac fans outraged over Leopard iPhone delay

James Cornelius — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:32:53 +0000

Mac fans and bloggers are outraged over Apple’s announcement that it has taken resources from its Mac OS X team to help finish the iPhone on time, compromising the scheduled release of the next version of Mac OS X, code named Leopard, which now won’t [...]

Why Linux is the new Amiga

James Cornelius — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:47:40 +0000

Back in the 90s I was, what would now be called, an Amiga fanboy. In past few months I’ve noticed an uncanny similarity between the old Amiga scene, and the current Linux scene.

For those too young to remember the Amiga series of computers, the first Amiga, [...]

Video games become an adult pursuit. I say grow up Generation X!

James Cornelius — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:54:52 +0000

It seems that it’s not just Baby Boomers who don’t want to grow old; Generation X is just as bad. A new study from Nielsen//NetRatings reveals that more than one third of US adults (36.5%) in the US [...]

iriver trounces iPod in independent test

James Cornelius — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:02:44 +0000

The iPod range might be best selling media players on the market, but they’re not the best, according to an independent test by Australia’s leading consumer protection organisation, CHOICE*.

In a test of 17 media players, iriver models came first in [...]

Microsoft Research reveals innovations at TechFest, and boy are they lame

James Cornelius — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:33:18 +0000

Microsoft Research recently revealed some of the research projects its working on in order to ”speed the way to a richer computer experience”, and it’s not hard to see why Microsoft is not a leader in [...]