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Full story: The trouble with Skype is you can’t rely on it yet
The Skype outage in the week just before Christmas was an inconvenience to millions of people who use the internet phone service. For up to two days, the service was effectively unavailable to tens of millions of people – no voice or video calling, no text messaging. I remember the last time Skype suffered a […]
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Full story: Feeling good
Another year – and a decade – draws to a close. I don’t know about you but my thoughts tend to look forward to what may be coming in the New Year rather than only looking back on what has been. In spite of an uncertain economic outlook in 2011, I’m feeling good about the […]
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Full story: Introducing Bob LeDrew, FIR’s new book review editor
Your FIR co-hosts are delighted to welcome Bob LeDrew as the new editor of our book review feed. We started the book review podcast as a means by which we can share our views of books related to the themes we cover on FIR: business, communications, PR, social media, and the like. Our first review […]
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #579: December 27, 2010
Content summary: Welcome to the holiday season episode; introducing our book review editor, Bob LeDrew; no report this week from Michael Netzley in Singapore; happy birthday, Allan Jenkins!; listener comments discussion; News That Fits: Dan York reports on snow in New Hampshire plus last week’s Skype outage and Quora, the Skype outage and continuity planning, […]
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Full story: Merry Christmas
The Christmas message in this someecards’ ecard seems pretty apt, a timely one given all the weather and shopping disasters of this month so far. Still, it’s Christmas Eve and, presents, Plan B presents or no presents (or even ‘IOU presents‘), it’s time to shut up shop for a few days at least and focus […]
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