Author: Neville Hobson

  • Adding smarts to your bank cards

    Here’s a product where the ‘2.0’ moniker could be very apt indeed – bank cards, those rectangular pieces of plastic you get from your bank or credit card company that are essential requirements today for completing purchases online and offline.…

  • Flickr by the billions

    A fascinating milestone in social sharing online was passed on September 17 when the five-billionth photo was publicly shared on Flickr, the online photo-sharing service that was in at the beginning of the social media revolution. So for posterity, here’s…

  • The Dell Streak: more than a smartphone

    "Is it a phone? Is it a tablet? An iPad killer? Or what?" These are the questions that stood out to me in much of the online commentary about the Dell Streak, the new mobile device launched by Dell a…

  • For now, Twitter is what you make it

    Twitter‘s all over the news today, not only tech but also general, reporting and commenting on its announcement yesterday of "a new, re-engineered Twitter.com that provides an easier, faster, and richer experience." In essence, Twitter has re-designed the website with…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #564: September 13, 2010

    Content summary: Shel’s in Hawaii, Neville solo today; two FIR Interviews posted: Susan Beebe and Richard Binhammer, Dell, on chief listeners, and Kaitlyn Wilkins, Ogilvy on the Ford S-MAX London event; Karen Hoegh’s new book on podcasting is published in…