Author: Neville Hobson

  • Free wifi from McDonald’s nationwide

    When McDonald’s restaurants completes the roll out of its free wifi service across all its 1,200 UK restaurants later this year, it will become the country’s biggest provider of free wireless broadband internet access. While there’s no reference to this…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #282: October 8, 2007

    Content summary: Shel’s in Manchester, England; wrap-up of the past week including the FIR Geek Dinner in Windsor; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; how reCAPTCHA fights spam and helps preserve old books and manuscripts; British Library books go digital;…

  • That was the week that was

    If I had more than five hours of sleep per night during last week, I’d count myself lucky. What a week! Exhausting, experiential, exhilarating. From Monday right through to Saturday, it was a week of travel, conversations, presentations, new sights…

  • In conversation with Damien Kiberd

    During my visit to Ireland last week, on the way to PodCamp Ireland in Kilkenny, I was interviewed on Down To Business, Ireland’s premier business radio show on NewsTalk radio. The show’s presenter is Damien Kiberd, one of Ireland’s leading…

  • Conversations at FIR Geek Dinner Oct 5

    A great success is how we would judge the first FIR Geek Dinner in the UK which took place in Windsor on Friday October 5, 2007. As the photo indicates, we had a full house in the Ristorante Amalfi where…