Category: Business

  • Is Windows Vista really going nowhere?

    A discussion on Twitter early this morning about Windows Vista has got me thinking about faith. I’ve been a Windows Vista believer since the operating system was in beta. Even in the face of relentless negative opinion – seemingly everywhere…

  • The failure of BA’s T5 promise

    Watching the unfolding PR disaster for British Airways over the catastrophe surrounding the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport during the past 48 hours, one word springs to mind. Expectations. For the past day and a half, the newspapers and…

  • Aggregating the walled gardens

    Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life, says The Economist, but states that this does not mean that social networking is a business. The Economist has a thoughtful assessment to support its statement on the business of…

  • The political cynicism of Quaero

    I’m probably one of the relatively few Englishmen who think the European Union is a good thing. After all, I am from a country that talks about Europe generally as a separate place, as in "I’m going to Europe" rather…

  • Disrupting mobile data costs

    I twittered the other day about my most recent Vodafone bill for mobile phone service that included a charge of £80 for data use. ‘Ouch’ was the polite epithet I used. Although the costs for using a mobile phone to…