Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Citrix offered VNUnet some guidelines to creating a healthy business - a business detox which forms part of the new years resolutions for the business. I've added my own comments on there:
Ensure that the approach to IT is understood and consistentThis is the hardest one to tackle to be honest. ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
I was thinking about Inspiration and Perspiration yesterday and added a couple more.
Inspiration is a beautiful thing. You have an idea, you pluck it out of the air and you put it in your pocket. Through the sharing of your body heat, it starts to germinate, sending out a shoot ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
The hacks are outdoing themselves again.
The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) issued a warning that a bogus upgrade is wending its way around the Internet. “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep” claims to be a necessary precursor for 1.1.3 firmware. The bottom line is that the Trojan can overwrite some utilities ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
I didn't think I'd ever use the words "lazysphere" and "gigaom" in the same sentence but thanks to a lazy journo at webworkderdaily who recycles the "Why corporate IT doesn't want the iPhone" complaint, I am forced to.
I've refuted these points before. Shame on you, Gigaom!
A blatant cut and paste ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Today we had a conversation about barriers to success, especially those which we place in front of ourselves; irrational fears, impostor syndrome. I personally suffer from the latter. An article at Inc.com explains more about Impostor Syndrome:
The public assumes CEOs will be knowledgeable about every aspect of their businesses, and ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
He likes it
The criticism all basically goes like this: "It's not like a MacBook Pro!"
Quite.
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Every year we wait for the new and sparkly stuff from Apple and we often get it. The move to Intel. The iPhone. the 17" and 12" Powerbooks wayback when. This year is no different. We have a new subnotebook, software updates and a glimpse into Apple's plans for ...
Posted in Commentary, Cool, Mac, News, Review, iPhone, infurious | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
In most cases, every customer is already empowered. They can choose whether or not to do business with you. In some cases, as in the case of a monopoly holding, a company may not have a choice about whether to do business with you. For example, any business operating in ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Tom Raftery rips Nokia a new one with his review of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Last summer there was a huge amount of interest in the Nokia tablets after the 770 was available for a knockdown price. I was about to go on holiday for a week and couldn't ...
Posted in Commentary, Review, iPhone, infurious | 4 Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Dieter Rams' 10 principles for good design:
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as ...
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