Monthly Archives: June 2005

The Fate Of The Home Productivity Suite

I was asked by a PR firm on behalf of Corel to give my thoughts about office productiviy suites used in the home. I don’t always do that sort of thing, but I thought why not turn it into a blog posting, thereby avoiding any danger of being perceived as aiding and abetting a company… Read More »

Delicious Additions

Here’s a wonderful new addition to the del.icio.us process of adding a tag to a web page — the posting page predicts from your existing tags what you are typing, and offers suggestions based on your existing tags. Not just that: below the fields are some recommended tags you have already assigned to other pages… Read More »

Plaxo Etiquette: Moral High Ground Or Cheap Stunt?

Plaxo, the online contacts exchange that got some good, and bad, press two years back, is trying to brush up its members’ manners with some Plaxo Etiquette: Each and every new technology has a learning curve as we figure out how to use it, and use it well. Remember when you’d frequently see people talking… Read More »

Banks To Customers: You Have To Pay For Phishing

Good article in Australia’s BRW Magazine about phishing and banks. It makes some important points, not least that banks are still trying to talk down the problem while at the same time passing costs and risk onto the customer: Banks are desperate to assure their customers that internet banking is safe. But their actions are not… Read More »

A Video Plugin For Skype

Skype is working on a video function which I’m told by beta testers is very good. Skype say it will out later this year. But one company called Dialcom can’t wait, and has already released a plug in called Spontania video4skype: Dialcom’s Spontania video plug-in is designed to be integrated with any 3rd party Internet-based… Read More »