Nexus 7 power adapter with movable earth pin
Unpacking a new Nexus 7 this morning and found the movable earth pin on the power adapter quite neat. First time I have seen or used one like this.
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Thoughts on the Apple #WWDC14 announcements, media crib sheet
I was asked last week by BBC Good Morning Ulster to come in to the show and talk about the announcements made at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference 2014. As with every media engagement I do I had done my homework the night before and prepared a crib sheet covering all potential areas for discussion which is shared with the show producer in advance so they can brief the presenter and prepare questions for them. The full crib sheet is replicated below for those who haven’t OD’ed on WWDC commentary yet.
Google Nexus Twitter account suggests surprise is coming today
Google have just posted the following to the @googlenexus twitter account: We have a surprise for you today. Stay tuned! Can’t wait to find out what it is. Couldn’t be the Honeycomb update for the Nexus S could it? Or perhaps some exclusive new apps perhaps. Alternativly it could just be a spoiler to steal …
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Code4Pizza; Coding experience not necessary
I have just returned from a great night at Code4Pizza were I had the pleasure of meeting some really switched on people wanting to do stuff just to help people. That’s a pretty good reason in my book. We need more of it in this country. I guess its what people did before the “big society”.
Why the UAE’s block on Blackberry is PR manna from heaven
The United Arab Emirates, and laterally Saudi Arabia, have announced that they intend to block several functions on Blackberry. This can only be a good thing for RIM in my view whilst it obviously it isn’t great for the RIM country managers sales figures for those two markets. Here’s the rub.