The Blog of Ross C Brown

£400 for an contract-free iPhone 3G

It was reported today by MacWorld UK that o2 in the United-kingdom had briefly published iPhone 3G pricing on their website. The o2 website was offering a locked but contract free Pay As You Go (PAYG) 8GB iPhone 3G for £300 and the 16 GB iPhone for a whopping £400, some £70 more expensive [...]

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Welcome back to Wallpaper Wednesdays

A few months ago I announced that I’d be posting a new wallpaper every week, well I forgot.  But not to worry – they are back!  Almost every Wednesday I’ll be posting a new computer wallpaper formatted for a widescreen display at 1440 picture elements by 900 picture elements – ideal for the 15.4” Mac [...]

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CNET Domain Names

In response to a few people who emailed me about my last post on CNET and hot on the heels of Pingdom who trawled through the domain names that Google use, here are the highlights from the 800 or so domain names pointing to the name server ‘ns.cnet.com’.

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Smoke-free for £12.50 a week!

I’ve decided to start smoking. Don’t worry mum, I intend to quit as soon as Dundee NHS board start paying me £12.50 a week. The good people over at the Scottish Government in partnership with NHS Tayside are going to pay people £12.50 a week to give up the bad stuff. That’s [...]

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Natali Del Conte: Taking CNET TV to a mainstream audience?

Have you been to CNET TV recently?  If you have, no doubt you will have been treated to Loaded – CNET TV’s latest show hosted by 29 year old Natali Del Conte.  While billed as a ‘podcast’, Loaded is a daily video product, produced early in the morning (East Coast time), rounding up the day’s [...]

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