In which Fogies of the world worship at the Jobs shrine

In which AppleFruit, record label, world dominator in the slick boy's toys department gets ready to tell us about some new toys, Amazon finally lets the UK have a colour Kindlee-reader developed by Amazon. The top-of-the-range Kindle Fire is a touchscreen tablet, not unlike an iPad, that costs significantly less than an iPad. Despite all the column inches devoted to e-readers and how they will take over the book business and destroy the demand for printed books, they are still nasty devices when compared with the aesthetic gorgeousness of a hardbacked book., dead men tell tales and Nokia shoots itself in the face

Five more smartphones that are marginally smarter than the measly bunch that constituted the last Fogey 5. Increasingly clever, expensive and desirable they are the non-pareil time-wasting devices of our generation. Skitter your restless fingers over that smooth Gorilla glass and feel as one with the ever-expanding technopolis. How did we ever manage without them?

In which two monumentally wealthy companies go tit for tat in courtrooms around the world, Bruce Willis possibly sues AppleFruit, record label, world dominator in the slick boy's toys department, a pirate has his collar felt, tablets proliferate and desperate hacks pay for 5-star reviews

Here’s a fine feature by Sam Anderson from the New York Times Magazine about mindless video games. The sort of things (Angry Birds) that have replaced the fag-break in the nation’s use of snippets of down time. This Fogey has spent an inordinate amount of time on Angry Birds and so far no 3-star level […]

In which a Jeremy encourages us to break the speed limit, AppleFruit, record label, world dominator in the slick boy's toys department ousts Croesus in the megabucks stakes, men watch porn on a PCShort for personal computer. Most commentators use the term as a shorthand differentiator between Windows-based computers and Apple devices. But an Apple computer is still a personal computer., Everything gets service providers Everywhere all 4GLike 3G only faster. As of March 2012 the only 4G networks are in US and Canada. When it comes to the UK and Europe 4G will use a different wavelength and/or frequency to its US counterpart so devices designed to work in the US will not work with European 4G. They will still function, of course, but using the older, slower 3G protocols. Synergy and compatibility, don't you just love it? cross, Barnes & Noble establish their Nook in the UK and Best Buy tries to keep its trousers on.

What naughty Anton did was set up a website – surfthechannel.com – that directed other miscreants to sites from where they could illegally download TV programmes and films. And that’s it. No one died.

In the Guardian on 13th August Emily Bell wrote about a court case in the US (GoogleStarted life as a mere search engine; now hell bent on world domination. More PhDs work for Google than any other single organisation and they're determined to know everything about everyone. For some reason Google thinks this inside info will help them and their chums sell us more stuff. v Oracle) in which the judge had ordered both parties to ‘disclose which writers they pay for consultancy or favourable opinions.’ Bell goes on the cite the case of Michael Arrington, founder of the Tech Crunch website, who invested in companies he wrote about.

There was no Fogey Friday last week and this week’s is much diminished.  There is tech news but who cares when the Olympics is on and you can watch women boxers beating seven bells of shit out of each other and various thrusting young types working up a sweat?  If you have a gym membership […]

Gear4, peddlers of clock docks, wireless speaker docks and Angry Birds iPod/iPhoneCostly but beautiful smartphone made by Apple. The standard by which all other smartphones are judged. novelty speaker docks, is shuffling into the land of nod.