Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Category: Stories

  • Lizard People drop ACTA draft from Black Helicopter

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Emerging briefly from their underground volcano lair, the shadowy A.C.T.A. organisation has released their latest list of demands. It’s another relentless march towards global New World Order governance. Actually, that’s how a few bloggers and even professional hacks have portrayed it. But what’s wrong with this picture? Read more at The Register… Read More

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  • How the photographers won, while digital rights failed

    How the photographers won, while digital rights failed

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    How did the music business end up with a triumph with the new Digital Economy Act? How did photographers, whose resources were one laptop and some old fashioned persuasion, carry an unlikely and famous victory? How did the digital rights campaigners fail so badly? Back in January, a senior music business figure explained to me…

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  • BBC investigates Richard Madeley’s PC panic attack

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Richard Madeley told the nation how the Government was going to whisk away his computer last week. The BBC has promised to investigate. The segment on Monday’s Simon Mayo drive time heard Madeley, who is filling in for Mayo, say: “What a pain! I only got computer literate three years ago, just as I get…

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  • Obama’s got a Google problem

    Obama’s got a Google problem

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Obama has created an exquisite problem by hiring so many senior executives from Google – some of the Oompa Loompas don’t seem to realise they no longer work for the company. Now a Congressman has called for an enquiry. The issue was made apparent when a trail of correspondence by administration official Andrew McLaughlin was…

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  • For me, the iPad is just a port short

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Quite unexpectedly, it’s looking like a useful bit of daily computing kit. It hasn’t taken long for the iPad to be seen as a bit more than a pointless and expensive luxury lifestyle accessory. Just nine weeks – and in that time the hardware spec hasn’t changed at all. But last week’s iPhone 4.0 preview,…

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  • TalkTalk, ORG see cash from Mandybill chaos

    TalkTalk, ORG see cash from Mandybill chaos

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Never let the facts, or taste, get in the way of a marketing campaign, we say. TalkTalk boldly promised today to fight disconnection requests in court, at least until after the election. Carphone Warehouse strategy director Andrew Heaney made the pledge on his blog. The fact that ISPs don’t get any disconnection requests, and if…

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