Category: Experimenting

  • FIR Plus: A test drive of Google+Hangout

    FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz were joined by friends of FIR Kami Watson Huyse (of Zoetica), Lionel Menchaca (chief blogger for Dell) and Bryan Person (of LiveWorld) for a test drive of Google+ Hangout, the social network’s video…

  • The acceptance hurdles for QR codes

    QR codes are appearing with increasing frequency in a growing range of marketing and communication activities. I’ve been paying attention to who’s using these two-dimensional barcodes and how in their marketing when I’m out and about, especially in supermarkets, taking…

  • More experiments with QR codes

    There’s a lot of experimenting going on these days with QR codes, those square images we see with increasing frequency on everyday items like utility bills, business cards, even building permits, and which you scan with your mobile device’s camera…

  • Get prepared with an IPv6 internet address

    As you may have heard, the Internet is running out of space. Specifically, the addressing system known as the Internet Protocol or IP address that uniquely identifies every single device connected to the global network is close to maximum capacity…

  • Windows boot-up made faster with Soluto

    Watching BBC Click on TV yesterday, I was interested to find out more about soluto.com that was mentioned on the show. This is a program for Windows that claims to dramatically speed up the boot time of your computer so…