Year: 2006

  • Gmail Mobile rocks!

    I’ve been trying out the new Gmail Mobile email service on my mobile phone. It’s great. Easy-to-navigate presentation of information. Easy to manage my emails, from reading to replying to composing a new message. Very fast site loading, although that…

  • Logitech a good choice

    I bought a new microphone/headset combo at the weekend – a Logitech USB Headset 250. A good price at PC World with added bonuses: it’s Skype certified, and comes with 60 free SkypeOut minutes plus a month’s free voicemail. Nice…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #189: November 13, 2006

    Content summary: Shel’s in Toronto; Neville’s summary of last week’s PRWeek Forum and Delivering The New PR; moving to one edition of FIR per week and ideas for filling the blank; Microsoft’s Photosynth tech preview; Second Life is not over-hyped;…

  • Social media, Second Life – New thinking about PR

    One of the great things about conferences on social media (blogs, wikis, podcasting) is the wide variety of comment and opinion they tend to generate among everyone who participates. With more than 120 participants, Friday’s Delivering The New PR in…

  • Resisting the Blackberry

    One thing I’ve consistently resisted is getting a Blackberry or other such device for managing email when I’m on the road or generally out and about. The major part of my self-justification is that I really do not wish to…