Ian Morris
Ian Morris loves televisions so much he's been banned from wedding chapels in Las Vegas for trying to marry them. When he's not romancing technology, he can be found watching American TV. Ian likes roast potatoes, but he doesn't like digital rights management.
Tuesday 3 February 2009, 5:17pm
A tax on Internet access is a good idea
There's been fresh interest recently, in the light of the Digital Britain report, in some form of taxation on Internet access in the UK. The idea is that copyright holders could be compensated for the losses they incur through copyright infringement by online file-sharers. The suggestion seems to be that we'd each pay something like £20 a year on top of our broadband subscription, to cover P2P downloads. Click here for more
Tuesday 18 November 2008, 12:16pm
Cruel new BBC branding imposed on stars
Imagine you settled down to watch your favourite spy-themed drama series, but instead of watching on regular BBC One, you chose the advanced showing on BBC Three. As you might imagine, this means tolerating the usual vile, bright-pink on-screen logo. Click here for more
Friday 31 October 2008, 10:06am
Quantum of Solace should be free
You don't have to pay to watch Coronation Street because the advertisers are footing the bill. So when a movie has more ads than an episode of Corrie, you'd expect you would be able to see that for free too -- the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace, is stuffed so full of product placement, everyone should be allowed into the cinema for free. Click here for more
Friday 3 October 2008, 11:07am
Be* allows users to customise their connections
It's no secret I think my ISP, Be*, is the best out there. I'm not paid to say that, I don't get a free subscription and there's no reason for me to promote it, other than simply because I'm a happy customer. A new service that lets you tweak your connection setting has made me even happier. Click here for more
Thursday 25 September 2008, 4:37pm
A Mac ruined Die Hard 4.0 for me
No one can argue that the original Die Hard is the best. The reason it's so good is that Bruce Willis plays a kick-arse cop who doesn't need help from anyone to get his junk sorted. Click here for more
Friday 19 September 2008, 12:38pm
It's official: 'unlimited' means 'limited'
Nate and I both get cross about the abuse of the word unlimited when it comes to download limits on broadband and mobile internet. As writers, we are both of the opinion that there isn't much point in having a language if tech companies can simply change the meaning of words when it suits them. Click here for more
Thursday 28 August 2008, 5:24pm
I should be in charge of BT
I'm just about to move house. At the moment I live about 600m from my local phone exchange. This, as ADSL geeks will know, means I get around a 21Mbps internet connection with my ISP, Be*. Click here for more
Wednesday 6 August 2008, 5:04pm
MPs want a watershed for YouTube
I can hardly believe how idiotic our government can be at times. The latest report designed to prove how little politicians understand technology is the proposal from the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee that video-hosting Web sites restrict content based on the time of day, just like TV companies do with broadcast content. Click here for more
Articles by Ian Morris
Don't hold your breath for Wii HD, says Nintendo
Crave Nintendo cautions against holding your breath for a new Wii HD. Such action won't make it release an HD console any quicker, and might result in the breath-holder getting dizzy and passing out
Adobe launches Photoshop Mobile for Android handsets
Crave If you take loads of photos on your phone, you're probably in need of a little extra re-touching help. If you have an Android phone, Adobe is on hand with its new Photoshop mobile app
Oppo opts not to sell its BDP-831 Blu-ray player in Europe
Crave When Oppo announced that it was making a Blu-ray player, we were very excited. Unfortunately, the company recently announced it won't be coming to Europe so now we're very sad instead
Blu-ray to get managed copy. At last
Crave Years after it first launched, Blu-ray is now set to get managed copy, to allow users to copy their movies to another device or keep a backup. But you'll need all-new hardware to do it
Phone love: When an iPhone meets a Hero
Photo He was wildly successful. She was from the wrong side of the tracks. But their passion would not be held back by firmware updates, nor Bluetooth incompatibility. This was true phone love
Digg is dead: Twitter killed it and Google helped bury the corpse
Crave We've checked its pulse, and the link-sharing site is dead. Here's how the rise of social networking -- and Google's ceaseless evolution -- stuck the knife in and twisted
Plug versus Plug
Crave We take a 100 per cent objective look at the plugs of the world, scientifically judging their attributes to decide which will come second to the mighty British plug. Oh, did we give it away?
Moon lands on Blu-ray this November
Crave One of our films of the year -- and one of the most stylish sci-fi films of the last decade -- Moon is soon out on Blu-ray and we're vibrating with excitement
