I can think of few better ways of spending part of Sunday than playing with a new tech toy. Which is precisely what I’ve done today with a new device that Dell have let me have as part of a programme to promote a new laptop under their Vostro model name. The machine I have [...]
Reviews
Your FIR co-hosts are delighted to welcome Bob LeDrew as the new editor of our book review feed. We started the book review podcast as a means by which we can share our views of books related to the themes we cover on FIR: business, communications, PR, social media, and the like. Our first review [...]
I sat in a darkened basement conference room at the Royal Aeronautical Society in Mayfair yesterday morning, listening to some terrific presentations and insights at the Echo Research ‘Fit for the Future 2010′ summit. Of the more than 100 people in the packed venue, I spotted a couple of them with laptops open. I saw [...]
"Is it a phone? Is it a tablet? An iPad killer? Or what?" These are the questions that stood out to me in much of the online commentary about the Dell Streak, the new mobile device launched by Dell a few months ago. And many people answer such questions by describing it as a smartphone. [...]
A name synonymous with personal computers and sound is Creative Technology, the Singapore-based company founded in 1981 that helped kick-start the era of digital multimedia with its Sound Blaster sound cards. More recently, Creative has become well known for its range of portable digital audio players under the Zen brand. Today, Creative is driving its [...]
For much of the past week, I’ve been lucky enough to have had my hands on an iPad, thanks to 33 Digital, the FT’s PR agency. I was trying out the Financial Times iPad Edition, an app the FT made available in the iTunes App Store on May 14 and formally launched on May 17. [...]
PRWeek has published the PRWeek PowerBook 2010, a 106-page A5-size book sub-titled “The definitive guide to the most influential people in PR†in the UK. The publication was launched at a shindig in central London last week, which I went along to. A good time was undoubtedly had by everyone there, according to the photos. [...]
For the past few months, I’ve been using a new laptop computer on my travels and when working away from the desktop computer in my home office. The new laptop is a Dell Latitude Z and comes courtesy of Dell as part of a promotional programme they’re running called Latitude Z Global Ambassadors. The Ambassadors [...]
One mobile device that ought to be added to any list of gadgets that epitomizes the Naughties (and there are lots of lists) is the portable satellite navigation device, or sat nav for short. I first used a portable sat nav in 2005 with a rental car in Amsterdam, then bought my own in 2007 [...]
We went and saw Avatar yesterday, the film that’s getting a lot of attention for a variety of reasons since its release on December 17: the amazing digital effects, the dramatic and epic scale of the story, the $400 million budget, the groundbreaking 3D version. We saw it in 3D at Cineworld Brighton, a multiplex [...]
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