Information Research Weblog

Thursday is the Online supplement day for the Guardian and today much of it is devoted to gaming and games machines - a thoroughly boring topic from my point of view. I've never seen the sense of spending hours trying kill one alien after another. Still, it takes all kinds to populate the world. Among the more interesting items:

Flaws in Wi-fi

'Hot' source blogs

UK 'competition' in broadband.

Is VoIP in or out? No sooner do we have commentators suggesting that VoIP won't hack it in the real world than we have companies with so many subscribers that they can reduce the monthly charge. This is the case with the US supplier Vonage, which, with 150,000 subscribers on the books, feels it can cut its monthly charge from $35 to $30 - it figures to cut again when it hits 450,000