Archive for the ‘Bedouin’ Category
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
37Signals are one of those companies that you either love or hate, I guess. I like them a lot, with their cheeky, no-nonsense approach to things. It's true that a lot of problems come down to doing the right thing so you have to ask - what are the barriers ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Far away in some coffee shop there are three guys sitting, taking gulps of their frappes and writing an insanely great idea on the back of a napkin. They're going to blow apart the world of social network and provide the basis for the next great revolution.
Internet/Web 1.0 seemed mostly ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
DavidJRice expresses some polite frustration at the number of potentially misguided approaches to government (central and local) funding of creative and technology industries.
He's right, of course. There is a disconnect between what is happening and what the "gubmint" thinks is happening. When you see people organising themselves for events because ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Looks like I might be going to New York for the second half of February. Still pretty tentative and there's probably a 50% chance it'll all fall through.
Did I ever tell you how much I hate flying?
Usually a flight consists of 5 minutes of terror, 50 minutes of boredom and ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
David Rice on NiMUG wrote up this little app:
Translink for iPhone
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
iPhone is not available to business accounts in the US and iTunes balks at registering the iPhone to a non-residential address in the UK so it's certainly not aimed at the Corporate Road Warrior but as I've blogged a lot recently, there certainly a lot of buzz about the iPhone ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
A German web site did a test between the iPhone and a recent 3G phone in web rendering.
Time in seconds taken to render the following web sites
WebseiteiPhone(EDGE, 2.5G)Nokia E61i (UMTS, 3G)
Die Zeit7679
EBay3026
Applephoneinfo3127
You also have to consider that the iPhone renders it better but that may be an entirely subjective thing.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I've spent a lot of time in the past talking about "Going Bedouin", an idea of working that I adore and which I have tried to do for several years, while working for a large telecoms company and also while working for my own company. I feel it helped the ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
From the San Jose Mercury NewsLike other valley stalwarts, including Intel and Sun Microsystems, Cisco is casting aside the cubicle culture that has thrived in the United States since the late 1960s. In its place, the company is embracing a new workplace design that saves space and money, and encourages ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Via Slashdot comes the revival of Wearable Computing as funded by the European Union.
A few years ago I exhibited at a business expo in The Odyssey in Belfast. I was there to promote my managed IT services - pretty mainstream stuff - but there was one guy who was running ...
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