Great news if you have an iPhone and want to use Skype – now you can make and receive your free phone calls over the net just as you can with Skype on your computer with a version of Skype for the iPhone, free software available today in the iTunes App Store. I grabbed a copy early this morning and installed it on my iPhone. I plan to have a review on my tech blog once I’ve been using it for a bit. Mind you, if you’ve used Skype before on a computer or a mobile device – with Skype … [Read more...] about Skype on the iPhone: Brilliant
Archives for March 2009
A degree in social media to kick start PR
There’s been quite a bit of talk today about the degree course in social media being offered by Birmingham City University that provides graduates of the course with an MA in Social Media. The two mainstream media reports I’ve seen – in The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph – both focus on criticism of the whole concept and include quotes from a student at the university deriding the new course. […] Despite claims of its instant popularity, students have attacked the course for … [Read more...] about A degree in social media to kick start PR
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #435: March 30, 2009
Content summary: Shel’s in Baltimore; Michael Netzley reports on the growth of the Tencent QQ instant messaging service in China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Nicole Simon introduces an FIR listener contest to win free entry to Next09 in Hamburg, Germany; News That Fits: instant audio reporting with an iPhone and Audioboo, Monsanto takes to social media; listeners’ comments discussion; news about Thursday’s show; music from Perpetual Groove; and more. Get FIR: … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #435: March 30, 2009
Is there a point in changing the clocks?
Unless you live in a country where the clocks never change (there are a lot of places like that as indicated by the countries and territories in red and the orange in Wikipedia’s world daylight saving time map above), you’ll have done what everyone in Europe and many other places did last night – advance your clocks one hour to account for summer time. Here in the UK, we’re now on daylight saving time (DST) – British Summer Time (BST) as we know it – that remains in force until … [Read more...] about Is there a point in changing the clocks?
Checking out Norton Internet Security
Finally I’ve had some time to set up a software app on my desktop PC to test it out and see what I think of it. The product is Norton Internet Security 2009 and I have a copy courtesy of Jason Mical and Tom Howells of Edelman and SpookMedia respectively. I’ve now installed it; the Flickr slide show above includes the screenshots I grabbed, some of which I plan to include in the first review I’ll write about the app soon, over on my tech blog. I’ve used many Norton products over … [Read more...] about Checking out Norton Internet Security
Twitter in your GM car
An early April Fool’s Day joke, or the real deal? You judge. I was reading reports that General Motors is planning to offer Twitter capability for drivers who use the company’s OnStar security, communications, navigation and diagnostics system. GM offers OnStar as a subscription service in the US and Canada for vehicles it sells in those markets that have the factory-installed OnStar equipment. The service currently has more than five million subscribers in North America (see the Wikipedia … [Read more...] about Twitter in your GM car
FIR Cut: Gartner report on newspapers and social media
Overflow from FIR #434 on March 26, 2009. A report from Gartner Research suggests newspaper publishers haven't leveraged social media in such a way that papers' biggest fans are able to serve as brand ambassadors. You can't tweet an article directly from the newspaper's website, for instance. It's easy to substitute "companies" and "businesses" for "newspaper publishers" when reading the report. Download this podcast (2.3Mb, 5:01) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as … [Read more...] about FIR Cut: Gartner report on newspapers and social media
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #434: March 26, 2009
Content summary: More troubles with FIR downloads; Shel's in Texas; Dan York reports on mobile trends and the death of family identity, Cluetrain 10 years on; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; follow-up discussion on Robert Scoble and PR is dead: listeners weigh in; News That Fits: Comcast's Twitter team coaching Saleforce.com, there's no avoiding news about Twitter as Gartner identifies four ways in which enterprises use Twitter; listeners' comments discussion; music from David R. … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #434: March 26, 2009