Howard Oakley

Plugging a leak

by Howard Oakley on 29 September 2010 in Help

Companies no longer need to worry about spies with miniature cameras. These days, anyone with an iPod can make off with valuable data. As every good James Bond fan knows, the essential tool of the trade used to be a subminiature Minox camera. The spy’s daily drudge would involve sneaking into an office in the [...]

Arts in hard times

by Howard Oakley on 15 September 2010 in Help

With Apple relying on creatives in the past to keep it going, it’s time it gave something back to the art world now it’s sitting on $40 billion. If you had missed the brassy big band syncopation of Pearl and Dean’s Asteroid theme, it was sometimes easy to mistake a cinema ad for the feature. [...]

Wifi me up, Scotty

by Howard Oakley on 1 September 2010 in Help

There’s a whole raft of great apps for the iPad, but the lack of wifi hotspots means you often find you can’t access them. For my son, the most exciting item in the Apple parcel was an AppleCare Technician Training package. He’s completing his Cisco training, but rather than my corrupting his youth with soccer [...]

Protection Racket

by Howard Oakley on 18 August 2010 in Help

As the lawmakers try to patch financial and other regulations and regulators in the wake of recent banking scandals and the resulting recession, they’ve fallen into the trap that has caught almost every similar effort. Transfixed like rabbits in the headlights of oncoming trucks, they have analysed history and tried to prevent its repetition. Although [...]

Update wake-up call

by Howard Oakley on 4 August 2010 in Help

The story of Rip Van Winkle probably saved author Washington Irving from bankruptcy, but it was hardly original. The German folk tale Peter Klaus, the Jewish equivalent about Honi M’agel and the Chinese legend of Ranka all hinge on unnaturally long periods of sleep, and the consequences of waking up years into the future. For [...]

Wherever you may roam

by Howard Oakley on 21 July 2010 in Help

If the iPad is to fully capture our imaginations as a data roaming device, there has to be some unification of the European mobile markets.
This year, our annual trek to the mountains will take us to Luchon, a spa town nestling at the end of the railway line deep in the French Pyrenees.

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →

Howard Oakley

Plugging a leak

Arts in hard times

Wifi me up, Scotty

Protection Racket

Update wake-up call

Wherever you may roam

Magbooks

New Issue

On Twitter…

Categories