Category: Experiences

  • FIR’s still a labour of love

    On May 23, my podcasting partner Shel Holtz and I marked a milestone number for our weekly business podcast For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, usually referred to simply as ‘FIR’ – episode number 600. Many of our…

  • Touching Windows 8

    If you have an interest in PC software and, in particular, operating systems, you’ll probably remember the milestones in each consumer release of Microsoft Windows. You may have fond memories of some versions, eg, Windows XP. Others, like Windows Me,…

  • Tips for being social at conferences

    A reality today at many conferences and other large-scale organized events is that attendees at those events are going to tweet, post photos, comment on walls and otherwise talk online about what they’re experiencing (or anything else that comes to…

  • Signs of the times for the future for e-books

    I have a Kindle, the digital e-book reader from Amazon who launched the third-generation model last year. Actually, my whole family has Kindles. We also have stacks of printed books. We’re not especially wedded to format, more the content and…

  • The trouble with Dell’s Vostro V130

    For the past four months, I’ve been enjoying my time with a Dell Vostro V130 laptop computer as a participant in Dell’s #tradesecrets marketing campaign for the machine that Dell ran during the first quarter of this year. This Animoto…