Year: 2006
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Cool new features in Skype beta
Skype launched a new beta (version 2.5.0.72) today of its software for Windows that has some pretty neat new features. Bill Campbell lists them all. The one I’ve set up straightaway is being able to send SMS messages from Skype to…
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The continuing case for cutting out the middlemen
Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship – I used the word symbiosis: check the definition – between journalism and PR in politics. The concluding point in my post…
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The meaning of corporate governance
The Summit for The Future on Risk conference starts today in Amsterdam and runs until Friday. I’ll be there this afternoon and Thursday morning, participating in the corporate governance knowledge stream. Should be a stimulating session with plenty to talk…
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Podcast survey: FIR listeners are influential, educated, mobile and global
The results are in from the first FIR Listener Survey that ran during April, providing us with invaluable feedback on a wide range of topics including what listeners think of the show, how and where they listen, and with some…
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Blackberry future in doubt again
“Blackberry saved” was a common theme of news reporting in March after Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the ubiquitous Blackberry wireless phone/email device, came to a $612 million settlement in its legal battle defending a claim for patent infringement.…