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4th April 2008

Virtual insanity

No this isn’t a homage to the hat wearing clown from Jamiroquai – it’s about the madness being marketed at today’s ‘yoofs’ to entice them

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3rd April 2008

The research money-go-round, and round

One of my colleagues alerted me to a Daily Telegraph piece last week on another brain tumour caused by mobile phones study. What – another

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31st March 2008

PR disaster

When wannabe EMLers come in for an interview they’re often asked to give a presentation on a PR disaster of their choice. Over the years

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28th March 2008

Fetch me some dungarees

I read a really depressing story in the news on Thursday. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 45% of British marriages are now

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26th March 2008

Doom and Gloom

Look at the front of any newspaper over the past week and you would think that the next great slump is nigh and we are

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20th March 2008

Cash for questions?

It seems like 2008 has been conference after event after exhibition so far for those of us working with the electronics or telecoms industries. I’m

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17th March 2008

Poisoned chalice

A recent article in Marketing Week about the Home Office search for an agency to create a marketing and advertising campaign for the proposed ID

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13th March 2008

Bad Jeremy

I’ve been shaken back in to the blogsphere by (poor old) journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson, and the various news items related to him being

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13th March 2008

Electronic Arts bids £1 billion for Take-Two and Grand Theft Auto franchise

I see in the news today that gaming mega-bohemoth monster Electronic Arts has made a hostile bid of $2 billion for Take-Two Interactive Software. Now,

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11th March 2008

Gaming on the go

Following Apple’s recent announcement that it plans to compete with the PSP and DS by opening up the iPhone to quality games, I read an

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6th March 2008

World Book Day

Following on Chris’s blog last week when we all missed Energy Saving Day, I would just like to pose a question – how many of

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3rd March 2008

It’s your BBC

A hackneyed phrase, which grates when there is nothing on that you want to watch, but it now has real meaning. The BBC has redesigned

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