Category: Business

  • Images in email: Are you now safe from the hidden tracking pixel?

    How do you deal with images in the email that you receive? If you’re like me and most people I know, the default setting in your email software is not to show images from all and sundry, only from those…

  • The thrill and heartache of BlackBerry: employee perspectives

    Whether Canadian mobile technology company BlackBerry has a viable future or not is still a big unknown. The company fell from grace during this year as sales of its smartphones plummeted in the face of competition from Apple and Android…

  • New guide to better understanding social media from the CIPR

    Understanding the social media landscape can be trickier than it might seem. In the context of how and where social media fits into traditional marketing and communication activity – what it can deliver, how you benchmark it, how you measure…

  • The social networking workplace conundrum

    A conversation yesterday with someone whose employer blocks access to Facebook and other sites on the social web highlights a real conundrum with such bans, as Scott Adams perceptively illustrates in yesterday’s Dilbert comic strip. Many employers cite time-wasting as…

  • Amazon’s drone delivery service: not science fiction

    A story that’s all over the news web today is about Amazon’s plans to start a delivery service that will get your package directly to your door straight from an Amazon fulfilment centre via a drone pilotless aircraft. No middlemen…