The EFF have launched their Digital Liberation Television Front.
The federal appeals court has questioned the move by the FCC to enforce compliance on hardware manufacturers.

Two of the three judges on the District of Columbia Circuit panel said the FCC never received permission from Congress to undertake such a sweeping regulation, which is intended to encourage […]

T-Mobile is in a world of public relations pain at the moment. Not only has Paris been exposed, yet again, but now the voicemail system has been shown to be insanely insecure. To the point where it’ll allow the cracker to make outgoing calls. If I was a T-Mobile user, I’d be thinking of changing […]

When Lifeblog was first released in July last year, many people pointed out that despite the reference, it wasn’t quite a blogging tool. That changed pretty rapidly with the announcement of a Six Apart partnership that allowed publishing directly to the Typepad online weblogging service. With that, it became very apparent that the Lifeblog team […]

This weeks interview is topical, given last weeks 3GSM World Congress 2005 and “The Gadget Show” News podcast. Christian Lindolm, Director of Multimedia Applications, Nokia Ventures Organization, the “godfather of mobile phone users” and I had the chance to chat last Monday before he went down to Cannes for the conference. Christian invented Nokia’s navi-key, […]

The recent legal wrangle between Apple and several news sites just makes Think Secret’s news this week that much more believable. According to the rumours, Apple is set to release an iPod mini with colour display and a 5 or 6GB capacity. Both features certainly aren’t “if” but “when”, no brainer enhancements that just keep […]

Google has been running it’s beta Gmail service since just before April fools day last year. It caused a major stir for two reasons. Firstly, the 1 Gigabyte storage allowance, where others were providing only capacities in Megabytes. Secondly, because it was by invitation only. It gained such a perception of geek status because of […]

It’s been a busy week in mobile phone news with the 3GSM World Congress 2005 happening in Cannes. It’s really shown us the trend for the next year, I mentioned it in yesterday’s post. So I launch the first news podcast with a little info on this trend, and then delve into a couple of […]

What a week to start The Gadget Show. Trying to keep up with everything that’s going on at 3GSM World Congress 2005 is a task and a half, interviewing a few more people for the show, keeping Gadget Lounge ticking along, working my day job, and keeping a 13 month old happy is consuming every […]

Here’s the first official Gadget Show podcast.
With only a small window to have a chat, I speak with a multitasking Cory Doctorow in Geneva, just before he dashes off to the United Nations to talk “The Access To Knowledge Treaty”. We have fun talking about a whole gaggle of gadgets and related technology and freedoms. […]

G’day all. My name’s Richard Giles. You might remember me from such blogs as Gadget Lounge and Richard Giles blog. I love gadgets. I scour the internet for the latest of news. I’m born to the fold of gadget nerds that stalk the night in search of the latest fix. But who am I really.
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