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9th April 2009

We’re all in the zone

Another WiFi scare, oh joy

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6th April 2009

Skulduggery afoot

It is not often that I am in the car listening to the radio at 7:30 am, I’m usually just back from dog-walking, but today

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2nd April 2009

A tale of two mags

Today saw the (re)launch of the UK version of Wired magazine. The title which has been highly successful in the US has been absent from

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2nd April 2009

Who are the real April fools?

April Fools. Someone had to mention it, and I don’t see why it shouldn’t be me. A poor show this year. Is the media getting

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1st April 2009

Berry Store

RIM has officially launched its BlackBerry App World online store. The media describes it as “delivering a broad mix of personal and business applications for

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30th March 2009

It’s journalism, just not as we know it

One of the key arguments in the whole blogger v journalist debate is the role of investigative journalism.  The key viewpoint is that whilst ‘anyone’

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30th March 2009

I twit, you twit, they twit

Here I go again. New media and social networking back on the agenda. EML, and most PR agencies, are great exponents of Twitter and we

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27th March 2009

The Sun is on top of the (online) world

The Sun website has leapfrogged both Guardian.co.uk and Telegraph.co.uk to top the monthly ABCe figures for the first time.  The Sun received 27.3 million unique

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26th March 2009

Big Brother is watching

As predicted, an official complaint has been lodged against Google Earth for invasion of privacy, as now people can see where the MI5 office is

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23rd March 2009

Virtual reality?

Cruising the BBC Technology pages I was rather surprised to learn that the online game Entropia Universe has been granted a licence to be a

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20th March 2009

The future is here! And also, it isn’t.

Ah, Tomorrow's World was great, wasn't it? I could watch crazy people getting the future wrong all day. In the future we were to have everything; from jetpacks to sentient computers, Sinclair C5s to nuclear-powered hoovers. In a roundabout, disappointing way, that last one did actually happen.

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19th March 2009

Google Maps is watching

Today Google Maps Street View has appeared for parts of the UK and Europe. You can see my house, the road just around the corner

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