What's really impressive is how much more the label takes. For Spotify: 0.16c to the label, 0.029c for the artist. (~85%/15% split) That's a huge chunk for something that someone else is distributing etc.

For what it's worth, that would be illegal in the UK, and presumably the rest of Europe. I believe it is also illegal in some parts of the US.

This is no better solution to what they had, which I guess you know because you posted as AC. The whole problem arose from some peoples local clocks being wrong, so using them in any way will result in the same issue.

Its true. :( In reality all my passwords are '1234' so they match my luggage.

Well done for pointing that out. If you can't remember the previous logo, then you might just have to press that 'forgotten password' button. Ye gads, the horror!

When it comes to passwords, personally I like to made a little 'algorithm' for their construction that involves something about the website I'm visiting and seeded with various other bits n pieces.

For example, I could always use the first three digits of my old phone number, along with the first three characters of the website and then the capitalised predominant colour of the logo. For example the /. password would be 206slaGreen, but for the BBC it would be 206bbcRed. You could use anything, the number of characters in the site name, number of words, the website initials, first 3 vowels, etc. The big upside is once you've got a way of generating your password you'll never forget it, even for that random website you log into once a year.

Obviously you wouldn't do this for you bank password, but it's great for the multitude of websites which you need to log into that don't contain any sensitive info.

Indeed, and the politicians (Conservative ones especially) who appear to be bankrolled by Murdoch and want to take it apart. Fortunately the News International phone hacking 'scandal' temporarily broke up this alliance, although the watered down version of the Leveson that we seem to have ended up with means we need to fear for the Beeb once again...

Surly for the price difference between an international economy and business class ticket, you could buy a new monitor in the country of your destination!

A 27" ASUS monitor costs ~£200 odd quid, a economy ticked from London to NYC is ~£700 a business class ticket must be about £1500?

Why? Exporting things like this and Top Gear keep the licence fee down and allow the BBC to do less 'commercial' things that would otherwise not be possible.

It is, I've no idea why the British press do this. (Maybe they do it elsewhere as well, I dunno.)

Don't call me Shirley.

The demo wasn't anything to do with the device, it was to do with the developer API. Apart from the S4 no actual device was shown.

Why the negative commentary? Why editorialise while posting? I understand people might not like Google, but to post your own opinions mixed into what is essentially the rolling news seems unnecessary and unprofessional. Surly such views are for the comments, as in to comment on the story?

I don't think that's going to look very good from a company who is in the business of selling always on mobile gadgets! Given we didn't see the tablets there are things that I'm sure could have been done. Maybe a very close antenna in a partial Faraday cage, though I'm no electrical engineer.

That's actually not true. The statistics that both countries produce are based on different criteria. For example, AFAIK, the UK includes crimes where there is just a threat of violence. (no actual bodily harm has to occur) In the US crimes of aggravated assault and above are counted. So 'violent crime' is a oranges vs apples comparison. Arguably a better comparison is the murder rate, which is ~4.8 for the US and ~1.2 for the UK.