Month: February 2011

  • Windows 7 SP1 painless update

    Earlier this week, Microsoft publicly released the first service pack for Windows 7. Maybe it’s a sign of the times that such a software release didn’t capture much attention outside the tech community, unlike the huge attention Microsoft used to…

  • FIR Interview: Laura Fitton on the business focus at OneForty.com

    OneForty.com started out as a Twitter app store, the brainchild of Twitter convert Laura Fitton. The site has recently undergone a major shift in focus. While continuing to offer 3,000-plus apps – mostly for Twitter but expanding into other social…

  • Canadian MPs big on Twitter

    Politicians in Canada are embracers of social media, it seems, and now they’re being actively encouraged to use social channels from within parliament. According to a report by Journalism.co.uk, the Canadian House of Commons has issued MPs with Blackberrys and…

  • Brian Solis keynotes at next Dell B2B Social Media Huddle in London

    If social media can transform business-to-business marketing, as Paul Gillin and Eric Schwarzman argue in their new book, Social Marketing to the Business Customer, then the Dell B2B Social Media Huddle taking place in London on March 17 couldn’t be…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #587: February 21, 2011

    Content summary: FIR Interview with Laura Thomas at Dell posted; recording of FIR Live #21 on B2B social marketing with Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman is up; listener comments discussion including on Bernie Goldbach’s Audioboo; News That Fits – should…