Category: Technology

  • Get Windows 7 beta while you can

    Today’s the day that Microsoft makes the first public beta version of Windows 7 universally available to anyone who wants it, via download from Microsoft’s website. Windows 7 is the next version of the Windows operating system, successor to Windows…

  • Starting the fifth year of the FIR podcasts

    Four years ago today – on January 3, 2005 – we published the first episode of a new podcast called “For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report.” Describing ourselves as “Neville Hobson, ABC, and Shel Holtz, ABC, a pair…

  • Wikio top 30 UK tech blogs for Jan 2009

    Last month, my friends at information portal and news search engine Wikio gave me a pre-publication look at December’s top 20 list of the most influential tech blogs in the UK. They’ve done the same for the January 2009 list,…

  • Reflections on 2008

    Not a time for me to write a weighty post on the last day of 2008. No predictions, no recommendations – you have lots of choices for those things – just some reflections on people, places and events during this…

  • A Twitter half dozen

    I’ve just spent an hour reviewing what’s accumulated in my RSS reader over Christmas, noting and tagging things that caught my interest for later action. Without doubt, the tech topic that dominates more content than anything else is Twitter, whether…