Year: 2009

  • Video: Installing Windows 7 beta

    The public beta version of Windows 7 was released by Microsoft on January 9 to great enthusiasm by fans and anyone curious about what the next version of the Windows operating system would look like. I tried to download the…

  • What’s it like to be the chairman of GM?

    There’s an interesting interview with Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, by Andrew English in yesterday’s Telegraph Motoring. If you follow news and events surrounding GM and the American auto industry, you’ll find it a highly readable…

  • Better luck next time

    I bought a ticket for the National Lottery’s Lotto prize draw yesterday. It’s the first time in well over a year that I’ve played the Lotto game. So I don’t have any magic formula, no treasured numbers that have proven…

  • When Apple asked about O2

    I had an email from Apple this morning, asking me to take a brief survey regarding my recent sorry experience with my iPhone which was replaced under warranty last week. “Dear Apple Customer,” it began. “Apple would like to get…

  • The TweetDeck model: not just about Twitter

    Iain Dodsworth, London-based developer of TweetDeck – one of the the hottest apps built on the back of Twitter, to help you manage your Twitter community – is securing funding of $500,000 in an angel investment round led by US-based…