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3rd October 2008

Wildfire is sleeping rough!

If you don’t get a reply from the office then it’s because we are all on the street (well, some of us, and most of

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3rd October 2008

Case proven

For once I’m in full agreement with an article about the damage mobile phone technology does to our health. A writer at The Economist has

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3rd October 2008

Weekly Links – 03/10/08

This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more: Do you still have a landline? (Guardian) Looking at how the rise of the

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2nd October 2008

How the web is changing politics

As we slowly/finally build up to a climax in the US presidential elections, it’s really interesting to look at a number of new online developments

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1st October 2008

Technology enabling creativity

I don’t agree with everything Emily Bell at the Guardian says, but her latest column is spot on, in which she highlights comments from ITV’s

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1st October 2008

Wildfire in the news!

The Wildfire Byte Night team were featured in this week’s Surrey Comet – fame at last! There is still time to donate to help us

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26th September 2008

Byte Night: One week to go…

As we posted previously, five members of the Wildfire team will take to the streets of London next Friday to sleep rough and raise money

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26th September 2008

Weekly Links – 26/09/08

This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more: What do journalists want from your website? – When writing a story about your

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25th September 2008

Google Android (HTC G1) vs. Apple iPhone

There's little to seperate these two phones in price. But Apple, once again, has pipped everyone to the post in the usability stakes, at the cost of making a completely closed system. The G1 totally lacks Multitouch. Also, without significant multimedia capabilities, the G1 is little more than the first phone that Google could get onto the market. Good browsing is nice, but shouldn't we expect this by now?

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23rd September 2008

Kick-start the economy with broadband for all

Gordon Brown’s move today to invest £300m to offer free computers and internet access for more than a million children from low income families has

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23rd September 2008

The Real Target for G1

Google’s latest endeavor, the Android mobile platform, was revealed to the world today. The first phone to use Android is HTC’s Dream on the T-Mobile

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22nd September 2008

It never rains but it pours…

I recently returned from a week off to immediately face a 12-hour press-tour and a trip to Ireland. I can safely say I've never had such a tiring week. My colleague Siobhan, who was with me in Dublin, is now jetting-off for a two-day business trip to Amsterdam. Frankly I don't know where she finds the stamina. International travel is tiring. By all means get involved in PR for the international glamour. But I'll be happy not to have to do it again for a while.

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