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• Joshua Topolsky leaves Bloomberg

  By Shaun on July 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “But the last few months have been difficult for me. I started to feel a desire to go even further, beyond the shores of business-focused coverage (this is Bloomberg after all), into the broader, weirder, and nerdier side of my… Read More ›

• 1972 Bulova Cal.12 Rare Chronograph

  By Shaun on July 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  1970’s fashion was terrible. The furniture was terrible and so were many consumer car designs. Despite many people hoping for a long time, 1970’s fashion has never returned and likely never will because the decade was an abomination in so many… Read More ›

• Marshall London Phone

  By Shaun on July 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  It looks cool, possibly in large part because of the logo, but is a phone focussed on one thing going to cut it in the world of multi-tasking monsters we all know and love today? “The revolution has begun. It… Read More ›

• What else are you going to buy?

  By Shaun on July 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  It would be fair to say that my iMac has just about reached the end of the road. After 4 years the sound has gone, the hard drive is behaving sporadically and I managed to get a rather large scratch… Read More ›

• Apple Pushes Privacy Beyond The Limit

  By Shaun on July 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “Method and system for targeted advertising of goods and services to users of mobile terminals, based for example on the users’ profile. Goods and services are marketed to particular target groups of users sharing a common profile which may be… Read More ›

• Queen: The Studio Collection

  By Shaun on July 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Even if you do not like Queen (not possible surely?), this box set will likely grow in value significantly in a very short time. Must buy!

• The BBC is vital

  By Shaun on July 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “You’ve probably noticed that the BBC is under fairly constant attack these days. It’s easy to sound paranoid about this, but let’s be honest here, the right-leaning press doesn’t care for the BBC. Papers like the Daily Mail in particular… Read More ›

• Apple Watch Demand Slides Significantly

  By Shaun on July 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  “The report claims that Apple is now selling fewer than 20,000 watches per day in the United States, and fewer than 10,000 on certain days, while the logarithmic chart above indicates that sales dipped to as low as 4,000 to… Read More ›

• Apple Music is surprisingly brilliant

  By Shaun on July 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  I have already reached the point where I can’t imagine my iPhone without Apple Music. It has become much bigger than it actually is to me and feels like a door to all of the audible entertainment I could want…. Read More ›

• What do you think of Apple Music so far?

  By Shaun on June 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  I had a couple of problems getting it to work, but now that it is I can come to some early conclusions. It’s a little slow when compared to Spotify, but hopefully that can be tweaked. It’s focussed very much… Read More ›