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Full story: Googlephone coming
Just two weeks to wait until Googlephone goes on sale in the UK – October 30 is the date according to T-Mobile who has exclusive UK rights to the phone. I call it ‘Googlephone’ because that’s how I think of it – it’s the phone that runs Google’s Android open source operating system for mobiles. That’s an easier name to remember than ‘T-Mobile G1 with Google.’ Since it was announced in New York last month, over 25,000 UK consumers have…
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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 regard having a mobile phone as just as important as having a book to read at home. 44 percent of those kids also think that…
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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 about Windows 7 is the explanation Nash includes in his post on why the name: […] The decision to use the name Windows 7 is…
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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 over its high-priced retreat, survey: employees not hackers cause most corporate data loss; Sallie Goetsch reports; FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; news about Thursday’s show; music…
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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, that requires you to log in to your online account, don’t – instead, pick up the phone and call your bank to ask if they…
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