World’s First Google Store Opens In London
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Apple 1 Computer To Be Auctioned At Christie’s
Meet your Macbook’s distant relative. This month’s hottest Apple product won’t be found tucked near the Genius Bar at one of the company’s ubiquitous stores, but at Christie’s: a very rare Apple 1 computer is to be auctioned. Made by a youthful Steve Wozniak and …
Internet Week: Over 100 Events For Geeks And Their Friends
Come 2080, the Global Cyber-Entity will be holding a ‘Human Week’, looking back to those charming far-off days when lumps of meat ruled the planet. For a little while longer, though, we are the masters and can celebrate our growing digital culture with happy, naive …
Honest Johns Conned Out Of Compaq
Not the new MacBook Sometimes the oldest trick in the book is the one that brings home the loot: Haringey council officials have busted a scam at White Hart Lane market in which punters trying to buy a laptop were given the age-old potato switcheroo …
Last FM Laid Low By Heat
Image / Alex.MacDonald The temperature only hit a semi-sweaty 23 degrees on Sunday, but it proved enough to temporarily down one of London’s online success stories. Last.fm, the online music and social media business based in Old Street, was knocked asunder when one of the …
‘Mind the gap, Dave’
Photo by ianaitch The news that drivers on Thameslink trains could be replaced by computers will come as a surprise to no-one who is familiar with the DLR. The overcrowded north-south route is being given a £5.5bn upgrade which will apparently include whizzy new technology …
Some URLs Are Bigger Than Others
In the words of The Smiths (we loosely paraphrase here:) Some towns modems are bigger than other towns modems. We think that’s what Morrissey was singing, his cadence is a little hard to follow at times. Anyway, it seems the biggest broadband speeds in Britain …
London Geekiness Recognised
You’re a geek, you. Yup. There’s no denying it. As are we. And the whole population of London is too. We’re a big stinking sweaty cauldron of geekiness, us Londoners, with our love of wi-fi and all. It’s something we’re rightly proud of, and now …
Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 2nd July 1865: One-time Methodist minister William Booth preaches to a large crowd at an open-air ‘mission’ in Whitechapel, founding the ‘East London Christian Mission’, which would later be renamed ‘The Salvation Army’. Tuesday – 3rd July 1981: …
Review: Office Suite, by Alan Bennett
Ever wonder what people must’ve filled their time with in the days before email, and sites like Londonist provided respite from the monotony of office life? Well, if this latest production of Alan ‘History Boys’ Bennett is anything to go by, the answer’s not much. …
