Category: Technology

  • Help with understanding technology in business from the BBC

    Last month at a Dell social-business event I participated in, I met Jeremy Hillman, the BBC’s business and economics editor, and one of the mainstream media representatives at the event. He was telling me about Technology of Business, a new…

  • A nostalgic look through a window on computer history

    Microsoft’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, posted a little bit of computer nostalgia if not history the other day – the press release from 1985 announcing the launch of Micros0ft Windows. I don’t remember much about Windows 1.0. Although I’d…

  • Better understanding Gartner’s hype cycles

    Over the years, IT industry analysts Gartner have published annual ‘hype cycle‘ reports that assess where specific technologies are going in the coming years. What’s hot and what’s not, in other words. Take the latest one on emerging technologies, for…

  • Top UK tech and online marketing blogs Oct 2010

    Who has the top blogs in the the UK that cover technology and online marketing, two categories of blogs that typically interest many readers of this blog? ‘Top’ can be a subjective word and there are plenty of classifications out…

  • TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop: a tough choice

    Ever since TweetDeck appeared on the Twitter scene in 2008, I’ve been a user and a big fan. Since then, it’s been the primary way I interact with Twitter on my computer desktop. Even though I don’t use many of…