Category: Business

  • Huge disappointment with Lloyds TSB

    Watching TV news early this morning, I was taken aback seeing the news that Lloyds TSB, one of the UK’s leading banks (and one I’ve had accounts with for 30 years), has agreed to pay a penalty of $350 million…

  • Get Windows 7 beta while you can

    Today’s the day that Microsoft makes the first public beta version of Windows 7 universally available to anyone who wants it, via download from Microsoft’s website. Windows 7 is the next version of the Windows operating system, successor to Windows…

  • No genius at O2

    I was in a Twitter conversation this morning with Luke Razzell about the iPhone and our different experiences when something goes wrong. In Luke’s case, he had a problem with the antenna of his iPhone. He visited an Apple Genius…

  • Starting the fifth year of the FIR podcasts

    Four years ago today – on January 3, 2005 – we published the first episode of a new podcast called “For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report.” Describing ourselves as “Neville Hobson, ABC, and Shel Holtz, ABC, a pair…

  • O2: phone service awful, store service great

    It’s been a major frustration since Boxing Day – no iPhone! From one day to the next, my iPhone suddenly didn’t work. When I turned it on, all that happened is the screen you see in the image. The most…