Free Post technology Microsoft does sci-fi offices really well Strange how Microsoft have finally got good at making corporate tech look sexy.
Free Post fitness Help me. I'm coveting Microsoft technology Wow. It’s not often I covet a Microsoft piece of hardware – but the Microsoft Band looks like a really nice bit of kit. It’s basically a souped up fitness tracker, that’s halfway to being a smartwatch – and it works with the
Free Post journalism Journalists: do not use Hotmail Microsoft accesses a blogger’s e-mail without permission to track the source of a leak: One of the revelations in this week’s case of a Microsoft worker who leaked pre-release Windows 8 software was that Microsoft accessed the Hotmail account of the blogger
Free Post 31-3-14 31-3.1 The war ended a long time ago, buddy I had an odd experience on Facebook the other day. It’s probably the closest I’ll ever come to those apocryphal tales of warriors emerging from the jungles of Asia to discover that the war ended decades ago. A friend posted about the
Free Post corporate culture Danger: Excel at work The FT’s Lisa Pollack on the power – and danger – of Excel: While Excel remains the utensil of choice, it comes with risks. Recent history has shown that poorly monitored spreadsheets can be costly for organisations. Yet slightly more than half the senior managers
Free Post in-car systems The new, small Nokia looks really interesting Well, now, I might actually have a future as a tech blogger and analyst after all. Last Saturday, I wrote a piece for Next Conference, speculating that the big push that that Nokia was giving its Here Auto in-car system made it look like
Free Post advertising Allister Frost: Noble marketing through brain hacking? *Liveblog: open to error, inaccuracies and howling typos*** ** Allister Frost, managing director, Wild Orange Media Have we ever been to Go Ape? He has. And he’s talking about the dissonance between knowing you’re safe (because you have a cable attached to you)
Free Post advertising Skype: what is this strange human concept of "conversation"? Andrew Grill, talking about Skype’s plans for in-call advertising: “highlight unique and local brand experiences”- what?? Humans don’t speak like this to to other humans. This is ad speak. There is a clear phenomenon where people get so embedded in marketing
Free Post Android #futureofmobile - five observations so far A few lunchtime notes:- Apple’s mindshare at conferences like this is truly terrifying – I’ve seem maybe three non-Apple laptops, and one non-Apple tablet. Otherwise, it’s wall-to-wall MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs and iPads. - There’s a lot of hopes for
Free Post next11 #next11 - Socialising Search with Bing Ralf Herbrich of Bing, which we all know as the other search engine, is up and talking about making search more social. This is something that Google are starting to play with, but which is not seen as their forte. An opportunity for the
Free Post iPhone Photosynth on iPhone: panoramic reporting I have a new app on my iPhone: [Photosynth](http://gigaom.com/mobile/microsofts-immersive-photosynth-camera-app-lands-on-ios/). Yes, a Microsoft app. Cognitive dissonance ahoy. 😉But it’s a great tool, on that allows you to quickly and simply build rich panoramas of your environment. Hence, it’s
Free Post leweb LeWeb: How Microsoft Cut Its Own Arm Off WARNING: Liveblogging. post will update and change over the next half hour. Prone to error, typos and horrible grammar. Ah, the cat and mouse game. Loïc is trying to chase down some hard information from Charlie Kindel, the GM of the Windows Phone 7
Free Post design #likeminds - Delighting Users Immersive liveblog (Liveblogging – prone to error, typos and inaccuracy. And possible bias in this session…) Starting the second day of Like Minds in the Delighting Users session, and feeling slightly suspicious, because I’ve just realised that it’s essentially a Windows Phone 7-derived session. That
Free Post microsoft news:rewired: Peter Bale of Microsoft UK Liveblogging: errors and typos likely Peter Bale of Microsoft UK, whose building we’re sitting in is kicking off the conference, and he’s promised us it won’t just be a product pitch. Why are we doing this? For the audience. Within the
Free Post blogging Morning Coffee Reading - Lingering Tabs Edition Stuff I’ve had in tabs for ages: - [A lesson in statistics for journalists](http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1271) – linked for truth - [Stop Selling Scarcity](http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/02/08/stop-selling-scarcity-2/) – Jeff Jarvis has another pick at
