Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy explores the convergence of five technological factors - mobile, social media, data, sensors and location - and their present and future impact on everything from commerce to medicine to transportation. FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz review the book in the context of an earlier FIR interview we conducted with the authors, and two book launch events including one in London in which Neville recorded Robert and Shel's … [Read more...] about FIR Book Review: Age of Context by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
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Increase your computer satisfaction with Soluto’s anti-frustration service
One of the banes of modern computer life is booting up, the process that happens to your computer when you switch it on. On my office desktop computer running 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate, it takes well over five minutes from the moment I turn the machine on to the moment when realistically I can start using it. That's well over the average time in the UK - and significantly more than the global average - according to Soluto, an Israeli software and web service company whose business is all … [Read more...] about Increase your computer satisfaction with Soluto’s anti-frustration service
Getting to know the Olympus LS-14 and LS-12
As a podcaster, I'm interested in portable digital audio recorders as tools that I can use to record interviews, for example, when out and about. So when I hear about a new portable audio-recording device on the market, I'm curious to know how it might fare as a device for use such as mine. That's the situation in the case of the recorder you see pictured here, an Olympus LS-14 recently launched in the UK. As a company, Olympus is pretty well known for its professional cameras. I remember … [Read more...] about Getting to know the Olympus LS-14 and LS-12
Get things done even faster on EE 4G
Since I started using EE's 4G cellular service last December courtesy of EE and the ambassador programme I’m participating in, the one thing that constantly impresses me is simply how fast it is so that you can get things done, well, faster. Uploading Instagram photos and videos, status updates on Twitter or Facebook, opening a file in your Dropbox, streaming a TV show with iPlayer… you can do all of these things on your 4G mobile device when you're out and about with the same confidence of … [Read more...] about Get things done even faster on EE 4G
Content is king but so is the delivery platform
One of the benefits of being a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is the bi-monthly magazine, CW. Every other month, the printed publication originally known as Communication World would come through your letterbox filled with useful and highly-readable content that offered knowledge, insight, interviews, case studies, how-to features and a host of articles addressing issues, trends and the actualities of modern communication management, internal and … [Read more...] about Content is king but so is the delivery platform
You’ll enjoy #Attenzi: it’s far more than just a good read
Philip Sheldrake's new business book Attenzi is published today. Earlier today, I published an FIR Book Review of it as I'd had the opportunity of reading it prior to formal publication. I don't do many book reviews these days - our FIR Book Reviews Editor, Bob LeDrew, does an admirable and far better job - and I wanted to prepare well for this one. So I wrote up my notes as a narrative and that's what made it into the podcast. As I have that narrative - in essence, the transcript of the … [Read more...] about You’ll enjoy #Attenzi: it’s far more than just a good read
EE ups the 4G game
If you're a customer of EE on a 4G cellular service plan, you'll relish the latest news from the UK's only mobile operator with a commercial 4G service. EE announced today that it is doubling the speed and capacity of its 4G network that, the company says, will boost headline 4G speeds to 80Mbps plus, and double the average speeds for 4GEE customers to more than 20Mbps. EE says double-speed 4G will initially be available in ten cities by the summer: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, … [Read more...] about EE ups the 4G game
4G LTE experiences and faster everything
4G - the marketing term that covers the next-generation cellular standards LTE, HSPA+ and WiMAX - is rolling out worldwide and LTE is currently available in more than 60 countries. It's generally seen that LTE is the fastest 4G service and is the one that is the subject of a just-published report by Open Signal, a UK-based network testing company. The report examines the state of LTE around the world and contains some useful trend metrics for the lay reader: 62 countries already have at … [Read more...] about 4G LTE experiences and faster everything