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Full story: Perspectives on poverty
I bet this isn’t an image you’d naturally associate in your mind with the word “poverty.†It wasn’t the first thing I thought of. Yet according to a survey carried out last year, 20 percent of kids in the UK think not owning a mobile phone is a sign of being poor. The same number […]
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Full story: Windows lucky number 7 perhaps
So the next version of Windows will be known simply as “Windows 7.†That’s according to a post yesterday by Mike Nash, Microsoft’s Corporate VP Windows Product Management. Windows 7 is the planned successor operating system to Windows Vista and a product that Microsoft hopes will confound the Vista critics. What I find especially interesting […]
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #388: October 13, 2008
Content summary: Shel’s at the Ragan SAS conference; new FIR Interview posted; winners of the FIR Listener contest announced; Michael Netzley discusses the Geek Dinner and Conferences in Asia; News That Fits – transparency and authenticity in communicating the impact of the financial crisis, your hotel on an iPod Touch with Runtriz, AIG’s bad press […]
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Full story: Expect more email scams
With all the bad news about the economy, bank bailouts and who knows what’s next, email scammers are very quick off the mark as this email, in the FIR comments Gmail account this morning, suggests. It’s worth repeating: If you get any email from your bank, or other financial company who you do business with, […]
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Full story: A (one-off) future for print
What an interesting experiment. This morning, a four-page printed newspaper called The Manual was distributed to London commuters at a number of locations in the city. Just 150 copies were printed with each one numbered so making the complete print run truly a limited edition. The man behind The Manual is journalist and editor Richard […]