Category: Software

  • Vodafone pays the price for lack of communication

    If you want to know how to seriously upset your customers and get lots of bad press in one easy move, look no further than Vodafone in the UK and what happened when the mobile operator rolled out a bespoke…

  • Compelling reasons to mobilize your website

    A few weeks ago, I installed a new WordPress plugin on this site that would enable visitors on mobile devices to find their experience here worthwhile and make it more likely they would stick around on their visit, perhaps engage …

  • What is community worth to you?

    I’ve been watching with interest, and some dismay, as a real kerfuffle has broken out in the WordPress community over the past few days surrounding the matter of copyright. At issue is interpretation of the GNU Public License (GPL), the…

  • XP: The OS that won’t die

    Microsoft announced yesterday that a public beta of the forthcoming service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is available for download. In his post yesterday, Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager at Microsoft, said that after only 7…

  • New FIR iPhone app launched

    If you were a fan of the iPhone or Android app for the For Immediate Release podcasts that we launched in February,  you may have been as dismayed as we were when both apps stopped working properly not long after…