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Twitter premium account hoax fools Twitterverse

Twitter premium account hoax fools TwitterverseThe signs are thereBut of course, reading comprehension isn't the strong point of most online readers these days...

Tags: Twitter Premium account, Twitterverse, Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-03-19

Time Machine and the Cloud rescue me

I should have written parts 2 and 3 of my 'predictions' by now but a four hour delay on an inbound flight coupled with an Apple BSOD put paid to all that. The good news is that I recovered everything thanks to Time Machine and a reliance on a pot...

Tags: BSOD, Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Stephen Fry, System Crashe, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-08

Celebs on Twitter: Britney, Lance Armstrong, Stephen Fry and more

Celebs on Twitter: Britney, Lance Armstrong, Stephen Fry and moreS-EndzS-Endz of the UK band Swami - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_bandis on Twitter. The URL is http://www.twitter.com/caseyrainRE: Celebs on Twitter: Britney, Lance Armstrong, Stephen Fry and moreI find it difficult to tell whether or not the celeb or his/her PR agent is actually posting,...

Tags: Stephen Fry, Twitter, Celebs, Lance Armstrong

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

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The Macintosh turns 25 (and how it was almost a Bicycle)

The Macintosh turns 25 and how it was almost a BicycleMacintoshI bought my own Macintosh 512K computer in the UK on the 18 December 1984 at a cost of £2175 (US$ 2958). I still have it at home and I see that Stephen Fry regrets giving his Macintosh away in...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., computer, GUI

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?

You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, and grab yourself a cup of Java. I get emails every day, mostly ordinary commentary from like-minded...

Tags: Legend, RIM BlackBerry, Virus, Computer, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Handhelds, Online Communications, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-01

News to know: Google vs. Washington, Mac enterprise, Ubuntu, Twitter

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Score one for Washington as Google gets schooled Joe Brockmeier: Google: Evil or just overworked? Ryan Naraine: Google readying fix for Chrome file download...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Mobile, Social Media, Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-21

Celebs on Twitter: Britney, Lance Armstrong, Stephen Fry and more

The tech blogosphere went crazy over the weekend with news that Britney Spears had opened a Twitter account. Or more accurately, someone from Britney's PR team has begun Twittering on her behalf. That may still be a big deal in itself as it suggests that the micro-blogging service could go...

Tags: Twitter, Public Relations, Blogging, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Management, Steve O'Hear, Podcasts, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Desktops, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-10-20

Monkcast #11: Green APIs, open sourcing discontinued software, and more

The boys from Redmonk James Governor and Michael Cote and I recorded our 11th MonkCast today and as usual, we were all over the technology map. Being the hot topic that it is just about everywhere, we covered a wide range of "green" subject matter. As a part...

Tags: Software, Sourcing, API, Governor, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Circuit City looks to redefine the in-store shopping experience

Circuit City looks to redefine the in-store shopping experienceVery wide aisles neededOK, in order for this to work, the headset needs to be able to tell what product you're standing near. Right? In any Circuit City I've been to, the shelves are packed, many aisles are narrow, and I just...

Tags: Consumer electronics, CC Shopping Experience, Circuit City Stores Inc., aisle

Discussion threads 2005-01-18

Federated identity's new advocate

Federated identity's new advocateLiberty Alliance = OpenDoc?Time was, the trade press including me wrote pages upon pages about Open Doc as an Apple-sponsored alternative to the evil Microsoft's OLE/ActiveX. Then Apple found it had bigger fish to fry and pawned off OpenDoc onto an independent, Component Integration Laboratories. (I've still...

Tags: Liberty Alliance, identity federation

Discussion threads 2005-01-18