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August 23, 2010

SOS Children’s Village – Pushkin, Russia

A quick update from the road by Ant Lillingston, a Planner at GyroHSR who is traveling from London to Ulaan Baatar in Mongolia raising £10,000 for a number of children’s charities. Check out http://www.thedoodlecar.com

We arrived almost an hour late from St Petersburg partly due to unaccounted for, rush-hour traffic but also because the 8 different
locals we had [...]

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August 19, 2010

Twitter Utility – For Mum

My mum was down to see her new grandson a couple of weeks ago and asked me what I thought of Twitter. She had read about it in the Daily Mail and couldn’t understand why anyone would need to know that anyone was at Tesco, or that Stephen Fry was following Delia Smith.
I couldn’t really [...]

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August 03, 2010

A BlackBerry in Dubai!

Receiving an SMS from my operator on Sunday lunchtime that opened with ‘Dear valued customer’ and closed with ‘please visit your provider for alternative services’ signified the abrupt end to my eight year relationship with BlackBerry.

My BB has been all over the world with me and never let me down, I love the way it [...]

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August 02, 2010

iPad: The ‘I’ is for India

India: the world’s second most populated country with almost 1.2 billion residents.  That’s one big, and therefore very attractive market! Yet the average annual salary is under £1,000. Consequently, there have been numerous attempts to produce affordable technological solutions to capture this sizeable revenue stream. To date however, almost every project has failed to get [...]

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