Month: October 2012

  • First BYOD, then BYOA: is COPE the tipping point?

    ‘Bring your own device‘ is a phrase whose acronym BYOD has gained wide recognition in business, large businesses especially. Apart from the genuine business pros and cons surrounding the idea of employees bringing their own computers, phones, tablets, etc, to…

  • Social media in the workplace: Still a long haul

    According to a US survey on employee use of social media in the workplace, published by HR software and services company Silk Road, there’s an encouraging picture emerging of how employers approach the overall topic. “We found that a substantial…

  • FIR Book Review: What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us by Guy Kawasaki

    Listen Now: Google+ is Google’s social network, launched publicly in September 2011 following a three-month beta test phase. According to its Wikipedia entry, as of September 2012, it has a total of 400 million registered users of whom 100 million…

  • Where the internet lives

    It’s a picture of Google that you wouldn’t possibly imagine when you think of the search engine giant that, increasingly, is directly involved in many other services. Multiple pictures, in fact, that tell a story far more valuable than 1,000…

  • Paper breadcrumbs

    The Telegraph reports that The Guardian is "seriously discussing" the closure of its print operation and focusing wholly on digital. In other words, no more print, only digital content. Says The Telegraph: […] the company has been forced to steadily…