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Category: Technology

  • My Blackberry is (still) not working

    I first posted this video satire about the Blackberry (and Apple) smartphone by comedians Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett last December. In light of the continuing serious downtime issues with RIM’s Blackberry network, affecting users worldwide, it seems exceptionally apt…

  • Steve Jobs: The man who changed the world

    If you read Techmeme, the must-read place on the web if you’re interested in the technology industry, this morning’s home page is full of just one topic – the death last night of Steve Jobs. The Apple co-founder died from…

  • Virtual reality in graduate recruiting

    Virtual aliens lined up to recruit graduates, says the Telegraph’s City Diary yesterday. Beancounters at KPMG are planning to attract graduates using 3D, Avatar-like beings. The online system is designed to appeal to the "Facebook/YouTube generation." […] The digital alien…

  • Rebooting Facebook

    As more than 100,000 others did, I sat at a computer last evening to watch the live video stream of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg deliver his keynote speech at the start of f8, Facebook’s annual developer conference in San Francisco.…

  • Join the FIR GaggleAmp experiment

    After recording the FIR Interview with Glenn Gaudet last week, the president and founder of GaggleAmp offered to comp FIR to an account. We took him up on his generous offer, and we’ll report on the outcomes of our GaggleAmp…