Year: 2009

  • GM and the facts about Opel and Vauxhall

    If you want to find out what’s going on with Opel and Vauxhall – two of the most well-known brand names in the car industry, owned by General Motors – take a look at GM in Europe Facts and Fiction,…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #430: March 12, 2009

    Content summary: Next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on March 18; Shel’s at the Ragan conference in Las Vegas; Dan York reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; discussion: what’s the best way to distribute a social media news release?;…

  • The future of air travel from Air France-KLM

    I’m a big fan of ‘DIY trip management’ when I fly anywhere – if the airline offers online check-in and that I can print out my own boarding pass, then I’ll use that service. Some airlines offer this wherever you…

  • Waiting for Vodafone for my Nokia update

    Last September, Nokia released updated firmware version 30.0.018 for its N95 8GB model, the one I have. Today, some six months later, running the Nokia Software Updater application shows that the updated firmware version is still not available on my…

  • Making a video viral

    The headline above is deliberate in the order in which I put the two key words: ‘video’ and ‘viral.’ I hear a lot of talk about viral videos, as in “We’re creating a viral video.” And my new favourite which…