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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #415: January 19, 2009
Content summary: An intro from Steve Crescenzo; Shel’s in Hawaii; Dan York’s FIR Interview with PSNH’s Martin Murray posted; upcoming FIR Interview with Jack O’Dwyer; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Ketchum exec’s Twitter embarrassment, a look at brands on Twitter: Tesco’s Fresh and Easy, is it possible to mass-email a pitch and do it right?, first looks at Windows 7 beta; Eric Schwartzman interviews Harvey Johnson, outgoing Deputy Administrator and Chief…
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Full story: Video: Installing Windows 7 beta
The public beta version of Windows 7 was released by Microsoft on January 9 to great enthusiasm by fans and anyone curious about what the next version of the Windows operating system would look like. I tried to download the 2.4 gigabyte file, without success. Luckily a Microsoft Twitter buddy sent me the beta on DVD (thanks again, @Jas) and so I now have the 32-bit beta version installed on my Dell Dimension XPS 420 desktop computer as a dual-boot…
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Full story: What’s it like to be the chairman of GM?
There’s an interesting interview with Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, by Andrew English in yesterday’s Telegraph Motoring. If you follow news and events surrounding GM and the American auto industry, you’ll find it a highly readable interview, conducted during the Detroit Motor Show that runs from January 11-25. It offers another dimension on the leader of a company seen by many as being at the heart of the present global financial crisis. The article sub-heading is…
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Full story: Better luck next time
I bought a ticket for the National Lottery’s Lotto prize draw yesterday. It’s the first time in well over a year that I’ve played the Lotto game. So I don’t have any magic formula, no treasured numbers that have proven their worth before, nothing like that. I stood at the Lotto stand in Sainsbury’s, trying to ignore the impatient queue behind me as I thought up what might have been the winning combination. As I paid my £1 and collected…











