There is an article in today's Observer (here) which describes the £8,000 bill that an Orange 3G dongle user picked up for using the device in Paris. I really, really struggle to understand why the mobile networks are still being allowed to get away with this nonsense. Roamed data should be cheap, because (unlike roamed … Continue reading The roamed data madness
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Today I met with a friend of a friend, who works in the more one of the more tangential parts of the international finance business. In conversation, I mentioned how important I have found that it is to me to work in organisations where I have an interest and affinity with the products or services … Continue reading Mash ups and Widgets (not Wash ups and midgets)
It's curious to watch the way in which the Goliaths of old media have lined up their pieces in preparation for the battle of free media. Is it just me, or is the iPad looking increasingly like the output from a series of brainstorming sessions entitled "how do we do an iTunes for print?". The … Continue reading The battle for free
Thinking back to past experience, I give you the rules of ERP. 1) Hire a consultant 2) Build an unrealistic sense of possibility 3) Define requirements 4) Specify a product based mostly on what you can afford to pay 5) Purchase a product. 6) Implement and prepare for disappointment 7) Find that you don't get … Continue reading The Rules of ERP
January 27th marks the date when I will begin to get a stack of requests for the new Apple iSlate/iTablet/iWant or whatever the Cupertino branding gurus are eventually going to call the thing. The Apple marketing machine is into silent over-drive as the world waits in awe to see what comes next from the Jobs/Ives … Continue reading Keep taking the iTablets
I caught up with an former colleague Charlie from Reuters on Wednesday night, and amongst other things we chatted about the things that have been being done in our respective organisations with providing interactive meeting spaces. Thomson Reuters have gone down the Cisco telepresence route. I've done something a bit cheaper. Here's a summary... We … Continue reading Interactive meeting rooms
One of my major objectives in 2010 is to improve the way in which my team provides help, guidance and understanding to the creative communities within Imagination. Whilst we are pretty good at providing processes and business services, tools to help creative people be more creative is more of a challenge. I've spent a lot … Continue reading The Creative Cloud
It's the end of the decade in a year and a bit, but as we all seem happier dealing with the patterns numbers make rather than mathematical precision, here are a few of my thoughts about the ten years that have just passed (the decade with the slightly embarassing name)... The decade when the internet … Continue reading The noughties
I received a letter from David Cameron yesterday. In it, he told me that it was very important that the Conservative Party won my constituency for them to form the next government. I'm lucky enough to live in Richmond, in south-west London. Other than being on the flightpath to Heathrow, it's a fairly idyllic place … Continue reading A brief political interlude:
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