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Month: October 2009

  • Postal strike nonsense

    From reading media reports over the past few days about the forthcoming national strike of postal workers called by the CWU trade union, planned for October 22 and 23, it’s hard to understand the logic of such a move. Some…

  • ZenNews aggregates the news on your iPhone

    Reading Robin Wauters’ review in TechCrunch yesterday of three nifty iPhone news apps, one especially caught my attention (Robin said it was ‘awesome’): ZenNews from UK company Zensify. I’m trying it out. ZenNews is a free app that aggregates news…

  • Focus your attention with Twitter Lists

    If you’re following hundreds or perhaps thousands of people on Twitter, keeping up with what’s happening is a time-consuming task. As you connect with more people, that’s not getting any easier. A great way to help you pay attention to…

  • The mother of all broadband?

    Yesterday, the broadband internet service into my home office that I receive from Virgin Media was upgraded from 20Mb (what Virgin calls its XL service) to the latest 50Mb (XXL in Virgin parlance). The first thing you do when doing…

  • Look after your identity

    This week has been National Identity Fraud Prevention Week in the UK, a fact I wasn’t aware of before hearing about it from Josh Davidson at Fleishman Hillard, the PR agency behind the nationwide awareness drive designed to help UK…