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Author: Neville Hobson

  • Cleaning house time for television

    If you think much of British television swims in a swamp of distrust, as I think it does, you ought to read the text of the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture delivered by Jeremy Paxman on Friday night at the Edinburgh…

  • When saying sorry won’t be enough

    Ars Technica reports that Microsoft’s anti-piracy service, Windows Genuine Advantage, suffered a global outage on Friday: Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #269: August 23, 2007

    Content summary: Follow up on Mattel toy recall crisis; Dan York reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Verizon, Starbucks and Comcast PR blunders; the Skype outage clarified; WalMart on Facebook; US intelligence community launches A-Space, an internal social network;…

  • Japanese Wall Street to open in Second Life

    So businesses don’t think Second Life is worth investing their time and money in? Tell that to Dentsu and the financial community in Japan. The Japanese advertising firm is launching ‘Virtual Tokyo,’ a virtual megalopolis that will open its doors tomorrow…

  • Don’t just ban Facebook, provide guidance

    More businesses are restricting employees’ access to Facebook due to concerns about productivity and security. CNET News quotes research by security company Sophos which says that 43 percent of workers polled said their employer blocks Facebook access completely. There’s been…