Although I have not yet had chance to try IBM’s workplace client and have only seen marketing material around Hannover, IBM seem to be about to pull off a neat trick – building a modern flexible platform and still delivering compatibility with existing Notes applications. This is something that Microsoft...
When I was 18 I weighed about 10 Stone and had a 28 inch waist, over the years the weight crept up to 12 Stone. 3 years ago I lost about a stone in hospital and took the opportunity to get down to 10 Stone 7 but I have recently crept up...
I am on holiday this week and all 4 kids are doing activities (film and video, drama and sports club) so Debbie and I are able to spend from about 10:00 – 16:00 on our own just relaxing in and around our home town – St Anne’s on Sea. At...
For the last few weeks I have been testing an iMate SP5, I had high hopes for it thinking it would be a great complement for my TC1100 Tablet. My main requirements (with scores) were as follows: small enough to take anywhere ***** worked great as a phone ***** seamlessly receive...
All too often when we talk about collaboration as IT folk we start by discussing all of the great new technologies that are available, or at least that’s what I did a decade ago. Now I tend to focus on the people so it was very refreshing to read a...
I have often used the word seamless to describe some of the refinements that I have been seeking in the end user experience, although recently I have tended to substitute seamless for integrated without really knowing why. Well today I read a post by Dean Bubley titled Redefining semalessness in...
The Inescapable data blog has two recent posts (here and here) that describe some of the gathering momentum around home working that are worth reading. I am a great fan of home working personally, although I have some short term reservations about how home working is often implemented by companies. ...
Rod Boothby has an interesting article describing some the the real business applications of blogs. He chose managing projects in this example and I am a big supporter of this. I have spent a lot of time observing projects and programmes failing and think that blogs can play a really...
I have just spent most of the day listening to a group of people debate how my company should develop a range of new service offerings. Lots of opinions, not many new ideas and a lot of obstacles. I finished the day not particularly encouraged by the prospects but not...
I upgraded from Vista beta 2 to Vista 5456 and I previously thought that it was 5456 that broke Maxthon but others in the news groups had it working. So I have finally found time to do a clean install of Vista 5456 rather than an upgrade and Maxthon is...