At some point in 2007 Google ran into some legal issues which meant that they couldn’t use gmail.com in Europe. because of this when I registered a new Gmail account to use with my Android phone I was assigned an @googlemail.com address rather than an @gmail.com address. I still received messages send to @gmail.com but [...]

I had an idea today about an alternate future where fanboyism has gone further and has superseded religion. Basically people have given up on putting their faith in insubstantial supernatural being and instead invest their faith in brands. Anyone who has met an Apple fan boy/girl knows that the level of zeal and devotion they [...]

I signed up for a Google profile today, for no reason other than to what it was all about… I’d also set up a mail alert to email me if my name is mentioned anywhere on the internet. Apparently somone has written code to farm profile from Google profiles and create user profiles on their [...]