Author: Neville Hobson

  • Windows Vista global release date

    If knowing the precise date when Windows Vista will be released to the world at large is important to you, mark January 30, 2007, in your diary now: Microsoft’s founder and chairman Bill Gates will launch the software giant’s long-awaited…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #197: December 11, 2006

    Content summary: What a gathering of communicators in New Orleans thinks of social media; do journalists want a social media news release?; marketers tour of Second Life planned; using YouTube to spot 2007 trends; YouTube demographics may not be what…

  • Travel to the US and get a terrorist rating

    All British travellers who have visited the United States over the past four years have been given a terrorist rating, according to a Daily Telegraph report. This is one of the outcomes of the implementation of the Automated Targeting System…

  • Le Web 3 begins

    Le Web 3 kicks off today in Paris – and I can’t be there. ‘Gutted’ would be a good word to describe how I felt late last week in letting Loic know that I could not be part of the…

  • Using Skype via wi-fi without a computer

    Browsing in my local PC World yesterday, I came across a display of the new Belkin wi-fi phone for Skype. It looks very appealing – a phone that enables you to make and receive Skype calls without using your computer.…