Category: Technology

  • The missing step with TV Licensing

    I got this letter in the mail yesterday from TV Licensing. I could tell from the envelope and the red ink that it was likely not good news which was confirmed the instant I opened it and read the contents.…

  • Workplace collaboration on the 3D web

    A news item Shel and I discussed in FIR #390 yesterday was a report in the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Blog about a partnership Linden Lab, the developer of Second Life, is announcing this week with Rivers Run Red, a…

  • Lots on the radar at Web 2 Expo Berlin

    Early this morning, the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin conference kicked off with sessions ranging from an Adobe AIR bootcamp to software development collaboration techniques. This event is not only for tech geeks, though: if you’re involved in organizational communication in…

  • Windows lucky number 7 perhaps

    So the next version of Windows will be known simply as “Windows 7.” That’s according to a post yesterday by Mike Nash, Microsoft’s Corporate VP Windows Product Management. Windows 7 is the planned successor operating system to Windows Vista and…

  • A (one-off) future for print

    What an interesting experiment. This morning, a four-page printed newspaper called The Manual was distributed to London commuters at a number of locations in the city. Just 150 copies were printed with each one numbered so making the complete print…