Category: Technology

  • The tipping point for XBRL

    This could be a milestone in illustrating the benefits of using XBRL for companies filing financial data. Last week, Microsoft submitted a Form 8-K filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comprising financial data for shareholders, using XBRL.…

  • Troubling times for Blognation coming to a head

    Ever since Blognation opened its virtual doors last July, it’s been one of my primary essential daily destinations for RSS reading. It’s an ambitious idea from Sam Sethi – build a network of blogs covering news about emerging startups in…

  • It takes more than gestures to deliver amazing customer service

    It makes a nice change to have my expectations about Virgin Media exceeded. Mind you, those expectations were pretty low so it didn’t take much – just a phone call. I got that call last Thursday morning from a supervisor…

  • Disruptive is good for 3

    I spent an interesting and enjoyable couple of hours at mobile operator 3‘s UK headquarters in Maidenhead last week in the company of a handful of bloggers and some executives from 3. Arranged by Parys Communications, one of 3’s PR…

  • Just a paying customer

    I really am nonplussed about Virgin Media. In October, I jumped over hurdles and through hoops in getting online after my broadband net connectivity disappeared for almost four days. Most of the hurdles and hoops were to do with dealing…