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Archives for December, 2008


Looking back on 2008

by Steve Prentice  |  December 31, 2008  |  Comments Off

Well, 2008 is all but over and I am curled up with a nice glass of wine and thinking back over the highlights of 2008 and my expectations for 2009 (wait until tomorrow for that one!).  Apart from the obvious turmoil in the markets, the trauma of the economic crisis (of which more than enough [...]

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Is Facebook killing the family?

by Steve Prentice  |  December 30, 2008  |  Comments Off

Well, perhaps I mean Social Networking sites generally, but I kind of like the aliteration! Christmas is one of those times of the year when tradition and family tend to come closer to the surface, and a surfeit of turkey and old movies on the TV do tend to encourage thoughtful consideration of the changes [...]

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Steve Jobs to skip the MacWorld Keynote

by Steve Prentice  |  December 18, 2008  |  Comments Off

So Apple are scaling back their trade show presence, big surprise (not!). What is more surprising is that they have kept it going for so long! It was many years ago that IBM abandoned the once obligatory huge stand at the big trade shows, realizing that they can get more bang for their buck doing [...]

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Happy Birthday to the Mouse – Enjoy it while you can!

by Steve Prentice  |  December 3, 2008  |  2 Comments

So the mouse is 40 years old!  Congratulations and all that! And Logitech has manufactured 1 billion of them (who keeps that accurate a count of these things? I’m impressed!). Seriously, this speaks volumes for the success of this little pointing device and the dominance of the graphical user interface of which it is an [...]

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