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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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July 23, 2010

When social networking goes wrong

Social networking is obviously an invaluable tool in terms of marketing, but as Dr Pepper has found out to its misfortune, it can also prove rather perilous. As many will know, the gaffe involved an ill-judged facebook status referring to what some may deem a less than refined video presently navigating the internet. Or what [...]

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