Category: Technology

  • Getting to know the Xda Orbit 2

    The doorbell rang before 9am this morning. There stood a courier guy with a big box containing an Xda Orbit 2 mobile phone courtesy of mobile operator O2 and its ad agency VCCP. This is the latest smartphone from O2,…

  • The key for Microsoft and Yahoo

    It’s anyone’s guess at the moment whether Microsoft will succeed in its bid to acquire Yahoo. Following Yahoo’s rejection of the unsolicited bid, subsequent speculation on who else might emerge as a white knight, or even whether Yahoo and Google…

  • Think of the small screen as a new canvas

    Reviewing some of the reporting and commentary from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, it’s clear to see that this is heaven for gadget geeks. I wish I were there! New mobile devices abound, either launching very soon…

  • DreamHost loyalty stretching a bit thin

    I’d planned to do a bit of blog admin this morning including upgrading all my WordPress blogs to the latest version 2.3.3, released earlier this week. Plans scuppered, though, by a long service outage at DreamHost, the company I use…

  • Key elements in blogger relations

    A few months ago, I started working with a company called Conjungo to help them gain some visibility in the blogosphere. Stimulate some interest and, hopefully, some conversations about what they offer. See where and how far a social media…