Monthly Archives: October 2012
Online and in flight
Posted on October 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
Following my thoughts on data access in Europe I am now flying home from Italy and I’ve started to contemplate Internet access in the air. Remember the days when you walked into a hospital and were told to switch off your mobile phone? Then one day this seemed to stop being important – someone realised […]
Data access in Europe
Posted on October 23, 2012 1 Comment
This week I’ve taken a holiday to Sorrento in southern Italy. Naturally I couldn’t come away without bringing some technology with me – I have my iPhone, iPad and (in the hotel room) my laptop has come along for the ride. Something which I’m finding slightly frustrating is that the SIM card in my iPad […]
Does technology help the unorganised man?
Posted on October 8, 2012 Leave a Comment
As MD at Footsqueek I spend a fair degree of my time working in schools, meeting head teachers and promoting products. I was in a school earlier to today and had a meeting with a head teacher. As the conversation progressed we started talking around organisation and she openly admitted that she is quite a […]
Working on the move
Posted on October 6, 2012 Leave a Comment
In recent years its become much easier for people to work on the move no matter what their location. This was brought home to me when I was in Dublin recently and I received a text message from a client. With relative ease I was able to connect to a wifi network, logon to his […]
What does it mean to be technology native?
Posted on October 4, 2012 Leave a Comment
When I did my IT GCSE I remember having a great deal of discussion about technology immigrants versus Technology natives. At the time we were all told that as 16 year olds in 2002 we were technology natives because we had grown up with technology. Our teacher on the other hand was a technology immigrant. […]
Responding to customer feedback
Posted on October 2, 2012 Leave a Comment
Some of the regular readers of this blog will know that I recently had a bad experience shopping at Audi Cheshire Oaks. I thought it only fair to Audi to update readers on action taken since I blogged about the experience. First of all well done Audi – I was contacted via twitter, they apologised […]