Category: Technology

  • The great PR cock-up

    The phrase “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” seems to be an appropriate idiom to describe a developing kerfuffle surrounding Microsoft’s latest blogger outreach campaign ahead of the launch of Windows Vista at the end of January. Concisely,…

  • Ex-TechCrunch UK editors are back

    TechCrunch UK may still be on hold but Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher, the two ex editors, have emerged with Vecosys, a blog covering Web 2.0, mobile and new technology firms across Europe: […] Although we’re based in the UK,…

  • Filling the TechCrunch UK void

    It’s nearly a week since Le Web 3 in Paris and it’s still hard to find any meaningful commentary about the event that isn’t overshadowed by talk about the political hijacking of the two-day conference. Much blog commentary late last…

  • Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 18-Dec-06

    CEOs in the Slammer Cisco — not apple — announces iPhone branded VoIP phones Denmark ‘best EU economy’ Getting Paid to Be Social Google Starts Selling Domains For $10 Per Year Nine Socially Irresponsible Companies Reuters and trust Second Life…

  • Le Web 3: A French farce (or is it a tragedy?)

    An extraordinary event took place in Paris this week, one that I was due to be part of as a presenter but could not make it. Le Web 3, the third in a series of Web 2.0-ish events organized by…