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iPhone App Round-up: Valentine's room, Riddim Ribbon, Postman Pat and more!
This week's trip to Apple's app store finds the shop in a romantic mood. Opening the doors to their Valentine's room reveals a wealth of loved-up e-cards and love poems, as well as apps to make sure you get your…
Digital Britain report: a summary
So, the Government has just released its Digital Britain green paper. It discusses a number of
different things that the government wants to do for the future of Britain’s digital industry, ranging from telecoms, through radio, television, broadband and, as we discussed this morning, intellectual property.
It’s an interesting read. There’s some positive aspects, and some negative ones. Some bits of the report are very ambitious, but others show no ambition at all. I’ll go through each sector in order over the break.
Nintendo issues sniffy response to Greenpeace's environmental criticism
Every year or so, eco-terrorists Greenpeace compile a report on which technology companies are friendliest to the environment and which really aren’t. Nintendo and Apple routinely score very low, and Nokia routinely scores well, but this year, Nintendo has issued a wonderfully haughty response:
“Nintendo has not been badly rated by Greenpeace. Greenpeace chose to conduct a survey which graded companies based on the voluntary submission of information. Nintendo decided not to take part in the survey and were therefore ‘ungraded’.
“Nintendo provides detailed information regarding its compliance to environmental laws and directives via the Consumer Information section of the Nintendo website and therefore felt it unnecessary to take part in the Greenpeace survey.”
So there you go. Nintendo isn’t environmentally unfriendly, it just doesn’t want to play nice with Greenpeace. In all honesty, I’m not sure I blame them.
Greenpeace Report (via TechRadar)
Related posts: New MacBooks to contain LED backlit screens, boost Greenpeace’s opinion on Apple | Greenpeace accuses Nintendo of not playing eco-friendly ball, in Greener Guide to Electronics report
House of Lords Committee wanted to redesign the Internet, until told they couldn't
Whether they’d been talking to Elton John, or just wanted to live up to their popular reputation, isn’t clear, but the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee (bet you didn’t know they had one, did you?) recently decided that the Internet had bad things in it, and needed to be redesigned in order to make it more secure.
Believing the Internet to be like “‘a Wild West’ operating outside of the law”, their report claimed that, “While the internet supports astonishing innovation and commerical growth, it is almost impossible to control or monitor that traffic that uses it. So we have to ask the question, whether it is possible to redesign the internet more securely?”
European broadband now reaches 1 in 3
A new report by the European Commission suggests that almost one-third of Europeans have home access to a high speed wired broadband connection. 53% of households access the web via ADSL, with 34% using wireless connections. Nearly one-fifth of Europeans…
