Your life will be flashed before your eyes
3 Jul 2008My piece today - Your life will be flashed before your eyes - in technology Guardian looks at the idea of making contact lenses into tiny displays.
Popup billing finds a new screen
26 Jun 2008My cover story - Popup billing finds a new screen - in today’s technology Guardian (printed edition) takes a closer look at Platte Media (Platte International Ltd).
It’s online as Porn billing firm lures customers with promises of Hollywood movies (it was first published on Weds 25 June in the latest news section).
If you’ve found a popup bill (Your Platte Subscription) on your PC demanding a £29.99 subscription for getfilmsnow.com in the last couple of months, then you’ll want to read this story. Many people will have come to Platte Media’s Getfilmsnow website via several pornographic feeder websites following searches. But others will have found Getfilmsnow directly as it’s indexed by search engines, well linked from Platte International/Media corporate sites, and also linked from places like these - www.gcssdubai.com/movie-collection/ and www.tiangson.org/2008/05/27/movie-search/
For my previous post on Platte Media go here (where there’s help in finding out how Platte Media installed on your PC). Please keep those comments and e-mails coming.
Any comments on today’s story in technology Guardian should be left on this post.
2 July 2008: Listen to BBC Radio 4 You and Yours’ update and an interview with Platte International’s Ashley Bateup. (link is good until Tues next week)
Red hot chillies go down the nanotube
12 Jun 2008Too hot to handle? My story - Red hot chillies go down the nanotube - in technology Guardian today looks at some experimental work involving chilli peppers.
Magnetic device could be used to diagnose malaria
29 May 2008How quickly can you diagnose malaria? My story - Magnetic device could be used to diagnose malaria - in today’s technology Guardian looks at the link between malaria, magnetism, and light.
Fuel costs 16p per mile. Why?
22 May 2008Another cover story for me…in today’s technology Guardian - Fuel costs 16p per mile. Why? - looks at one driver’s decision to buy a hybrid, fuel efficiency improvements, and those rising prices. Charles Arthur, technology editor, has put some more detail in the technology blog - You think fuel prices are bad? Historically, they’re not - and we’ve graphed it. Should I be saying that all this is ‘fuel’ for thought?
Update: It certainly seems so today as Charles has now blogged this: And while we’re on fuel prices: oil hits new high of $135 per barrel
Enough said.
Update 29 May: Here are some letters about this story. There’s another letter here (fuel cont’d) about one reader’s experience of driving a Toyota Prius for a year (it replaced a Vauxhall Astra Eco diesel).
How low-energy LEDs could soon be lighting our homes
8 May 2008Nanotechnology will make LEDs a lot brighter in my story - How low-energy LEDS could soon be lighting our homes - in technology Guardian.
