Tim's tech blog
Welcome! This is my tech blog, my personal feed, and generally home to some of my private ideas, thoughts, rants, etc...
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UK Radio Player launching online on 31 March! (04 March 2011)
It's official! We've been working on it, and today we're officially allowed to tell you about it. Radio Player -- the UK's official cross-industry online media player web app, is launching at the end of this month! It ...
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The British government must urgently invest in broadband internet infrastructure (10 February 2011)
It is essential that the UK's internet infrastructure is improved and expanded, within and beyond urban areas, and a nation-wide project must commence without further delay. This is now a race against time. With renewed urgency, serious ac ...
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Cheap imitations of tech products: killing the goose that lays the golden eggs (04 February 2011)
A small number of organisations are making it their business to copy other people's products and attack the companies behind the original idea. It's a dangerous trend, but some organisations, including certain exceptionally powerful and influen ...
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IE9 is the fastest web browser -- confirmed by Facebook's new speed test platform (01 February 2011)
The world's fastest web browser is Internet Explorer 9 Facebook has launched a new platform for speed testing of web apps, with a focus on HTML5 and JavaScript, and it's official:- "Microsoft's upcoming IE9 crushes th ...
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Prediction: Microsoft will dominate the tablet market (26 January 2011)
Allow me to make an easy prediction: Windows will dominate the tablet market. To some people this will sound like a bold prediction. We've been exposed to an unprecedented flow of hype about one particular product in this marketplace: the iPad. ...
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