Author: Neville Hobson

  • New Opera Mini for mobile phones

    Browsing web pages on your mobile phone usually is a painful experience. Most web sites, including blogs, just aren’t designed for displaying on the small screen of a mobile device. While there’s little you can do about that, there is…

  • Buy your complete house at Ikea

    Ikea, the iconic Swedish home-furnishing retailer, has made a move in the UK that, if you think about it, is entirely logical. From yesterday’s Financial Times: Ikea […] is to launch its own range of houses in Britain. The timber-framed…

  • Le Web 3 sold out

    Just over a week to go until Le Web 3 kicks off in Paris. Le Web 3 is the successor conference to the two “Les Blogs” events that took place in 2005, all organized by Loic Le Meur. This third…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #194: November 30, 2006

    Content summary: SNCR’s new print journal; Microsoft launches Windows Vista; word of mouth marketing; the police and the blogosphere; TiVo and attention; David Phillips reports on CBS on YouTube, XPRL and the CIPR guidelines; listeners’ comments discusssion; Dan York reports…

  • No painless switching to Open Office

    The French parliament has said ‘au revoir’ to Microsoft, according to a Yahoo News report: […] Starting [next June], French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, and OpenOffice.org, a free open-source alternative to Microsoft’s…