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Download Movies Legally, But Let the Buyers Beware
by Jim Flynn
Digital technologies create a conflict between protecting copyrights and ensuring the broadest possible distribution. Digital Rights Management has been the answer - but this solution, which seems to benefit the rights holder, may be highly detrimental to the consumer in the long run.
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Apple - why is it so popular?
by John Gibb
While the history of PCs is interesting, the history of Apple computers is more so. Although Apple only hold about 2% of the computer market, that's still a lot when you consider how many millions of computers there are in the world.
Apple is, arguably, the inventor of the modern computer graphical
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Computers understanding the basics
by John Gibb
Computers have a jargon all their own - it's a truly huge specialist vocabulary, and it can feel like an alien language if you're not used to it. If you're buying a computer, though, it helps to have a handle on at least the basics, so let's see if we can breeze through them for you quickly.
OK, let's
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Last minute travel - made easy
by John Gibb
The growth of the Internet and budget airlines has turned last-minute flights into a huge industry - you can just be surfing around, and then, right there, there's a flight cheap enough for you to buy on impulse and go away this weekend. If you're thinking about booking last minute flights, however, there
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Last minute travel - options
by John Gibb
Together with last minute flights, last minute hotels are big business nowadays. The idea is that you take a room that would otherwise be empty (often because of cancellations), and in return you get a steep discount. However, as ever, it's a case of buyer beware.
It can be a very common experience
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