Category Archive: Technology

Feb 01

Apple Hires Dixons CEO John Browett to Lead Retail

It isn’t so much the news – who doesn’t know this – but I for one was surprised … James Davey and Poornima Gupta, reporting for Reuters: Apple chief Tim Cook, making his first high-profile hire since taking the helm of the world’s largest technology company, lured the well-regarded industry executive to fill a critical …

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Jan 25

Focus on the User …

There is a lot of traffic (excitement) out there about the bias creeping in to Google Searches around the Social Landscape. This site : Focus on the User clearly demonstrates that there is – AND offers a work around with a handy dandy bookmarklet that you can install through a simple drag and drop. When …

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Jan 24

Searing Attack On The MPAA’s CEO

If you are a member organisation of the MPAA and this is your public representative who’s making you look like a corrupt, Congress-buying organisation in front of the general public, you are not being an effective lobbyist and you are not solving the problems that the MPAA hired you to solve. The words of Jimmy …

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Jan 16

Anonymous targets media execs

When I read that The people in power seem a little perplexed about the guerilla tactics. ““Why can’t they just hire a lobbyist like everyone else?” a Congressional aide for the House Judiciary Committee asked the NY Times. I am wondering how long these guys will have a job …. how about you ? via …

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Jan 10

Skype – Killing Long Distance – Once Minute At A Time.

Skype Winning

  It doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know – but nice to see the graphic supporting it. iMessage and BBMessenger will both be cutting into the texting world. Reduced number of home phones anyway – since we are all on mobile. And the costs of mobile in US in comparison are ASTRONOMIC. I …

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Jan 09

E8, Edwin Abbott, Garrett Lisi, Maui, Theoretical Physics, Unified Field Theory

So I was going to post this to Facebook directly – and found that it was too long – and then I remembered – wait – I have half a dozen blogs – surely one of them could serve as the platfrom for a post – so Webservations it is >>> When I was much …

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Jan 09

Technology Could Transform Technology ….

Bearing in mind that this was written in 1982 … (10 years or so before Tim gave us the world wide web) … pretty amazing predictions …. The home will double as a place of employment, with men and women conducting much of their work at the computer terminal. This will affect both the architecture …

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Dec 14

24 percent of EU citizens have never used the Internet

The Mind Boggles Claire Davenport for the Globe and Mail: Almost a quarter of the European Union’s 500 million people have never used the Internet and there is a widening division between the web-savvy north of Europe and the poorer south and east, figures released on Wednesday showed. The countries with the lowest number of …

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Oct 19

Internet Trends 2011 — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

KPCB Internet Trends (2011)

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Oct 05

R I P Steve

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As always – Apple says it best: and on the click through :

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