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Why do we bother to queue?
Posted on June 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
This week is Apples word wide developer conference in San Francisco. I’m here for the week, it’s 3am and I’ve just joined the queue for the keynote speech (7 hours to wait). It’s got me thinking about why people queue in this technology savvy era. The videos from this conference will be available online, it’s […]
Are you ready to “vine”
Posted on May 5, 2013 Leave a Comment
We all live in the age of social media and I’ve adopted pretty much everything going. I remember doing my a-levels and MySpace was the big thing. My space was founded in 2003 and I loved it. At the same time we had other sites such as Bebo which although I had an account never […]
ITV Re-Brand
Posted on January 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
So today ITV are launching their new brand across all ITV channels and sub regions. Information from ITV In todays recession hit society how important is brand awareness? ITV clearly want to create more of an association between the programmes that they make and the corporate entity who makes them – but we all knew […]
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 […]
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. […]
Traveling with Tech
Posted on September 30, 2012 2 Comments
This weekend I’m visiting Dublin – a city that I’ve never been to before. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the technology that I’ve used to get me here and how I’ve relied on technology to enhance my visit. My journey to Dublin actually started when I booked my flights. […]
Technology Statistics
Posted on September 7, 2012 Leave a Comment
There are currently more than 500,000 apps available on the Apple App Store (Apple, 2011). I was recently researching a presentation and I came up with some interesting stats that I found interesting: 1 in 3 adults in the UK now own a smart phone. There are 75,750,000 active mobile phones in the UK today […]
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