by Steve Prentice | January 15, 2009 | Comments Off
It has been an interesting day. In fact, as my colleague Nick Jones commented in his blog, it has been an interesting week, and it is unlikely to get any less interesting as we move through the year. Let’s face it, we are still only half way through January! Nick is right, scanning the news [...]
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Category: Behaviour Tags: green, travel, virtual meetings
by Steve Prentice | January 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
More information than you need to know is probably your (perfectly reasonable) response to this title. My apologies for taking such a lavatorial approach to grab your attention. However, it is only a matter of time before that message pops up on Twitter. I have been on Twitter for some time now, as are many [...]
Category: Behaviour Tags: addiction, social networking, twitter
by Steve Prentice | January 13, 2009 | Comments Off
At the end of 2008, following my frustration with the fact that most of the family appeared to be more interested in what was going on in the digital world rather than the living room, I floated the idea that our growing addiction to social networking sites was having a negative, even terminal impact on [...]
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by Steve Prentice | January 12, 2009 | Comments Off
The average business IT view of computer gaming is pretty negative – “a waste of valuable resources”, “stopping people doing real work” or just “kids stuff”. Not a good move! In one of the industry sessions at CES MIke Griffith, CEO of leading game developer Activision Publishing claimed that online video games were poised to [...]
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Category: gaming Virtual Worlds Tags: Add new tag, entertainment, gaming
by Steve Prentice | January 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Alongside the steady growth of social networking has been the rise of User Generated Content (UGC). Today we can all create content, both audio and video to extremely high technical standards. Of course, that doesn’t automatically make us Oscar-winning film directors. The quality (both technically and content wise) of the majority of content on that [...]
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by Steve Prentice | January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
As the credit crunch starts to bite and companies start to tighten up on travel we are all going to have to explore new ways to collaborate. The trouble is, it is just too darn simple these days. The “enterprise” solution is to install a collaboration software solution (probably at substantial license cost), allocate storage [...]
by Steve Prentice | January 6, 2009 | Comments Off
Well the MacWorld keynote came (and went). Phil Schiller is no Steve Jobs, but there again, Steve is in a class of his own! After the usual hype of unlikely expectations there were no huge surprises – annual updates to iLife and iWork, a new MacBook Pro (is a battery really THAT interesting?) and DRM-free [...]
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by Steve Prentice | January 5, 2009 | 3 Comments
Well the twilight period is over and it is the start of 2009 for real, with pretty much everyone back at work. And for me this is a week that is bound to bring some surprises and a lot of useful pointers as to what will be happening later in the year – thanks to [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Add new tag, Apple, Consumer
by Steve Prentice | January 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
Following on from my post about my top picks from 2008, I promised to look forward to 2009. And since I am also resolving to blog more regularly ….. Firstly, I think 2009 is going to be the year of 3-D. I’ve been watching this space all of last year and it is a natural [...]
Category: Predictions Virtual Worlds Tags: 3D, Add new tag, netbooks, Virtual Worlds
by Steve Prentice | January 2, 2009 | Comments Off
OK, time to get down to business again – the celebrations are over and reality is coming back to the surface. Yes I know it is kind of cheesy, but New Year resolutions are a good discipline for an analyst – I will even promise to look back at the end of the year to [...]
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