Month: March 2009

  • Skype on the iPhone: Brilliant

    Great news if you have an iPhone and want to use Skype – now you can make and receive your free phone calls over the net just as you can with Skype on your computer with a version of Skype…

  • A degree in social media to kick start PR

    There’s been quite a bit of talk today about the degree course in social media being offered by Birmingham City University that provides graduates of the course with an MA in Social Media. The two mainstream media reports I’ve seen…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #435: March 30, 2009

    Content summary: Shel’s in Baltimore; Michael Netzley reports on the growth of the Tencent QQ instant messaging service in China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Nicole Simon introduces an FIR listener contest to win free entry to Next09 in…

  • Is there a point in changing the clocks?

    Unless you live in a country where the clocks never change (there are a lot of places like that as indicated by the countries and territories in red and the orange in Wikipedia’s world daylight saving time map above), you’ll…

  • Checking out Norton Internet Security

    Finally I’ve had some time to set up a software app on my desktop PC to test it out and see what I think of it. The product is Norton Internet Security 2009 and I have a copy courtesy of…