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5 1/4 in floppies with CPM

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 5:28 PM by stevecla01
I had a great breakfast with two pals from the world of PR and journalism this morning and given we're all about the same age we were marvelling at how the "kids" of today have no clue what things like vinyl records are about or that only 10 Read More...
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Vaio NR Series

Posted Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:49 PM by stevecla01
  I'm not in the market for a new laptop but if I was buying one or recommending for family and friends the Vaio NR would definitely get a look in. In fact at least 3 friends have asked for recommendations recently so I may ping this their way. Why? Read More...
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Flat screen TVs top Americans' Christmas wishlists

Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 9:10 AM by stevecla01
I read this on Jack's blog today and also received in email from a colleague - you can get the PDF of the report online . Interesting reading and I suspect there would be many similarities if a UK survey was carried out. My observations Surprised they Read More...
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WWWired

Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:29 PM by stevecla01
    Some days are just special - today was one of those for me. I met up with Sean Geer , ex Managing Editor of Wired UK . This was the UK offshoot of the magazine that changed everything. Well, I did for me the day I saw the braille issue in Read More...
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Tagspace beta from Microsoft

Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 7:35 PM by stevecla01
Thanks to Scott for the heads up on this new beta from Microsoft focused on social tagging. In a nutshell, it lets me take my favourites around the web with me. Off to test it out a little more... Note: all tags saved to TagSpace are public. This will Read More...
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BBC iPlayer in beta

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 2:54 PM by stevecla01
Well it's got a lot of press recently, largely for being Windows only, but the BBC's iPlayer is now out in beta. Though it doesn't look like the cool demo that was shown at Mix06, it does look promising in terms of the service: BBC iPlayer Beta will let Read More...
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DigiGirlz

Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 8:14 PM by stevecla01
Philippa Snare and Katie Ledger - the two coolest DigiGirlz I know...along with Eileen :) Our event today in Reading was a great success. We hosted over 200 13-15 year old girls and gave them a good insight in to the world of Microsoft and technology. Read More...
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Microsoft Mediaroom

Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 11:45 PM by stevecla01
This explain all the posters around our UK HQ today - I only just caught up on the news. Its' great stuff but almost as cool as the product is the name. I mean, Mediaroom . Cool eh? No 2007 suffix, no Microsoft whizbang prefix. Want to know more about Read More...
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Mourning the Press Release

Posted Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:46 AM by stevecla01
I attended Chinwag's PR Unspun this week in London and enjoyed listening to the speakers - most of all Neville Hobson . He talked eloquently about the changing landscape of PR and was vehement in the defense of the Press Release when I asked when we could Read More...
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Dell goes Linux

Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 1:19 PM by stevecla01
I was one of the first to question whether Dell was listening to their IdeaStorm website and it appears they are. They announced last week their intention to pre-install Linux on some machines. No details on version or pricing - I have this sneaky suspicion Read More...
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Mac vs. Vaio

Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:29 PM by stevecla01
Ha ha...the Mac Ad parodies continue. This one from Dell. Meantime, did I mention I bought a Mac? Maybe not but hey, if you're going to do your competitive research you may aswell do it for real I thought. Plus I do like their hardware and you can now Read More...
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Xbox 360 Elite on Channel 10

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:15 AM by stevecla01
Thanks to Paul Foster for the heads up that 10 has an exclusive on the new XBOX Elite . It's been rumoured for some time but now the details are laid bare - HDMI and a 120gb hard disk being the main attractions. Oh and it's black! I have to confess that Read More...
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Bill Gates talks about small business

Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 12:56 PM by stevecla01
You may have heard about Response Point - we announced it last week as a small business (under 100 peeps) IP phone system. It sounds smokin' and includes a PC management console so you can have your own mission control centre to setup things like call Read More...
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Learning by Gaming

Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:34 PM by stevecla01
Having spent the weekend with a friend who's son plays games (PC and XBOX) and chatting with Capsian Learning I've been thinking more about this topic. There is no getting away from the fact that kids like games and increasingly games where they can play Read More...
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Microsoft office of the future

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 3:48 AM by stevecla01
Okay, we've seen this demo a few times but this is the best version so far. Just under 6 minutes long it shows the concept very well and though it left me with a few questions such as: when? on a laptop? it did give me a degree of satisfaction against Read More...
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