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** UPDATE - While writing this post RIM & BlackBerry were in the midst of a 3 day blackout due to some connectivity errors at the mothership & users are about to fall off the party wagon (at last!!) ***I’ll be totally honest, I have NEVER liked BlackBerry. I hated their devices, hated their OS and just generally watching some of the ...

What is great about running a blog for almost 5 years, is you can look back and see if you were accurate in your thinking and future strategy planning, or not. Back in August 2008, I wrote a couple of pieces around the emerging Cloud trend. Fast forward to 2011, you can't go anywhere without hearing anyone's thoughts, views or own service in the ...

I’ve been talking about the state of the high street for my last few posts and of course will continue to discuss and debate the future and where there could be some light at the end of the tunnel (looking specifically at the launch of Wellworths - a great well done to Claire Robertson and her team or re-invigorated and re-invented retail takes a ...

Microsoft now seems to be following in the footsteps of Apple with their Mobile Me service – with their My Phone service. I can only cover my eyes in advance of what could or could not happen. One would have to hope that the powers that be use the great Live Mesh framework that I am enjoying (yes I do use and like some of Microsoft's technology) ...

Following up quickly from my last blog - where do I see some of the key highlights and what Conchango are talking about with our clients and potential clients is how you structure ''your cloud'' in order to make it accessible, visible and indexed correctly. Gone are the days where you can just pump content and data up to a virtual storage ...

I have been writing for a while on the topics that I am directly working on a day to day basis or have a passion about - Digital Media! However I do have another that brings the engineer and geek out in me is the emerging SaaS / Cloud / Web Platforms that have been bubbling around for a while and are now starting to really take shape in ...

In my last blog - I touched on the power of the games industry and how they are now shaping the way that consumer enjoy their multi-media experiences at home. This has been a long hard struggle for these companies and have seen many peaks and troughs over the decades to try and get to the point where we are today. At the same time games ...