Archive for the ‘News’ Category

MWSF2008: The Good, the Bad and the Fugly

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 ...

Charity Cases

Monday, November 26th, 2007

A few weeks ago, Her Indoors made an off-hand comment about how I should do more for good causes. At the time I grunted as my attention was elsewhere but the statement didn't leave me and I've been mulling it over for the last few days. The outcome of this ...

It’s phone week. Google dips a toe.

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Hot on the heels of the Open Social, Google has announced the Open Handset Alliance. Handset makers such as LG, HTC, Motorola and Samsung (essentially those who have had their lunch money stolen by Apple) are pledging to implement the software, based on a Linux OS. It's also being supported ...

And the winner is…

Friday, October 26th, 2007

John Battelle writes on the recent investment into Facebook from Redmond giant Microsoft. Microsoft invested $240 million and got a measly 1.6% stake (and likely the guarantee they're going to be the advertising supplier for the Facebook platform). The real upshot of this is that Microsoft just verified the wild ...

iPhone UK: on the Mac-Sys blog

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

I've posted the announcement from Apple on the release of the iPhone on the Mac-Sys blog. It's a mix of good news and bad. Especially bad for those of us in Northern Ireland: 30% of O2's network will be EDGE by launch. Northern Ireland won't be until the last. (Based entirely on ...

More on iPhone versus IT

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

David Morgenstern quotes Gartner Research Vice President Steve Kleynhans in saying that: to these new customers, the current IT experience "stands for the inhibitor of technology," Kleynhans said. He observed that there is a basic conflict growing between the pushing clients and the IT traffic cops. and really the rest of the ...

coworking.ie

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

A new blog designed to promote and collect information about collaborative workspaces in Ireland. Community driven and non-profit and hosting the first of my posts on the subject. Last year when I started all of this, I was sufficiently keen on the concept of Bedouin workspaces that I wrote up a ...

The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Friday, January 19th, 2007

"By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no ...

SyncBridge: no new registrations due to system changes

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

We're preventing new registrations for the time being as we implement some changes. We're not happy with the performance of Ruby with our database queries even on the new server and so we're going to be doing some extensive back-end changes. We've also extended our free registrations until the end of ...

SyncBridge at it’s new home

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Man, that was a tough couple of days but SyncBridge is now in it's new home and the performance load on is soooo much more comfortable. DNS is moved, certificates done and email is receiving and sending fine! The new hardware, Juggernaut, was so quick that when building the environment we ...