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The Register on 1and1 screwing with my email

By + on January 18, 2007 in Business, Self Promotion, Technology

The Register reports on 1and1′s ongoing email problems which have been causing us no-end of problems all week. We’re looking at switching hosts – not because 1and1 have had problems, but because it hasn’t been open about them. Problems happen….

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Power in cars

By + on January 8, 2007 in Technology

IT Week’s Lem Bingley shares my frustration about the lack of power sockets in cars. Ideally I’d like to plug in my Bluetooth GPS unit, my ancient Tungsten T PDA (pressed back into service as a dedicated sat nav using…

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Bloggers bash Microsoft again, but where’s the disclosure?

By + on December 28, 2006 in Business, public relations, social media, Technology

Yawn. This Christmas many bloggers are once again engaged in their previous past-time of Microsoft bashing. And once again many of them are failing to grasp the reality of life outside of their own little blogosphere bubble. In their eyes…

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Always think and blog

By + on December 21, 2006 in Business, social media, Technology

At Christmas in the UK you always get lots of “Don’t drink and drive” adverts. I think a lot of people could also do with some “Always think and blog” adverts to remind them to think carefully and reflect before…

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Congratulations to Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher

By + on December 20, 2006 in Business, Media, social media, Technology

Just a week after the ill-fated demise of TechCrunch UK, Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher are back with the launch of Vecosys – tracking European start-ups. I think this is the first time a new blog has gone straight into…

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Journalist asks the questions, can PRs provide the answer?

By + on December 13, 2006 in Business, Media, public relations, Technology

Nick Booth is a freelance IT journalist who has come up with a novel use for a blog by using it as a research portal to ask questions about features he is writing. The idea is that PRs can provide…

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Latest browser stats

By + on November 21, 2006 in Technology

Internet Explorer 7 is rapidly making its mark. The latest browser stats for this blog are: Internet Explorer 6 54% Firefox 1.5 15% Internet Explorer 7 11% Firefox 2 9% Safari 5% Opera and others are all 1% or lower….

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Rip-off Britain strikes again

By + on November 14, 2006 in Business, Technology

First of all let me say that Marriott is the only big global hotel chain that I like. Compared to say Hilton you get consistently good service, nice rooms, OK food etc. Last week I spent a couple of days…

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A Minute With… Ajaz Ahmed

By + on November 7, 2006 in A Minute With..., Business, public relations, social media, Technology, Yorkshire

Ajaz Ahmed is the co-founder of Freeserve, the UK’s largest ISP (internet service provider), now owned by Orange. He is now involved in running a number of companies including Huddersfield-based Browzar which provides a privacy tool for internet browsing. A…

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Technorati sucks really works

By + on October 28, 2006 in Business, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management, Self Promotion, Technology

Manoj Ranaweera is the founder of ebdex, a Runcorn (near Manchester) based document exchange start-up. He blogs at Manoj Ranaweera’s Blog and for 73 days Technorati stopped recognising his blog and all attempts at contacting them failed. When Manoj blogged…

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