Category Archives: Productivity

a matter of trust in business

A keynote from Peter Sondergaard SVP Gatner, ended with the phrase “may the computing force be with you” but spent a great deal of time covering the topic of social computing and trust. In terms of social computing and it’s clearly … Continue reading

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Will the iPad be used by Corporations?

We’re just days away now from people getting their hands on Apple’s latest product the iPad, a tablet device or appliance about twice the size of the iPhone. There is speculation that it’ll sell 6M units in 2010 which is … Continue reading

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Will Yammer follow hot on the heels of Twitter?

Use of Twitter, the micro-blogging web-site that allows people to post 140-character updates, has exploded in the UK over the last few months; traffic to the site increased by a staggering 974% over the past year according to Techcrunch UK. … Continue reading

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Facebook in the Enterprise

Once upon a time, employees had restricted access to the phone. When email arrived, users faced further restrictions- often, you could only email someone in the same company. Many organisations currently place restrictions upon access to Facebook – why? Our … Continue reading

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Nokia E71 a two handed device.

I’ve been using the E71 for a couple of days now and I don’t know what to think, but something is nagging at me, that maybe this isn’t the perfect phone I’d hoped it would be. It may be just … Continue reading

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Xobni

I’m a tad late to the party with this one, but as we’ve migrated from Lotus Notes to Exchange/Outlook as our corporate email within Orange Business Services, it’s finally given me a change to try out Xobni. So far it’s … Continue reading

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Freeing yourself from E-Mails Grip

There’s a great article in the New York Times about Luis Suarez and his use of social networking tools to reduce his email. It’s a great article as it’s a huge sales pitch on how IBM can help your business … Continue reading

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Are Calendars the reason for poor productivity?

I was just reading this post by JP and found it extremely interesting. I intend to read the concepts behind the thinking when I get some more time. The theory is that inability to react quickly within large organisations are … Continue reading

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Yahoo pipes

managed to find some time to have a very quick look at Yahoo Pipes. It looks really simple to set up and use. I don’t have any real need or maybe just haven’t had the time to think of a … Continue reading

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More Google Calendar Details

Om has some more information on the new Google calendar app that he picked up from TechCrunch. Mind you some people in the UK aren’t too happy with Google right now and there plans for Harry Technorati Tags: Google, CL2, … Continue reading

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30 boxes

30 boxes beta is out, you can get it here, there’s a blog too I’ve tried several of the online calendars now and I still (to qoute U2) haven’t found what I’m looking for. 30 Boxes looks nice and has … Continue reading

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Landmark

I un installed Lotus smart suite from my Thinkpad yesterday. Good bye 123 I’ll miss it. I started out using 123 on my Ph.D. but switched to .xls after a year. Now I’ve finally swapped everything over. Technorati Tags: Lotus, … Continue reading

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GMail Drive

I just replaced my 256mb key drive with a 2.3gb GMail drive. It’s great the drive stays in cyberspace and you can just access it from any PC. It beats carry (and worrying about) a small key drive.

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