Monthly Archives: May 2008

Bill Gates “We will build the world’s best search!”

Most of the news from last night’s All Things Digital conference in San Diego, concentrates on the short demo Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer gave of the Windows 7 ‘touch’ interface. For me, the most interesting thing about the evening, was a comment Bill Gates made to reporters at an earlier reception. Read on…

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Lance Ulanoff – EXPOSED!

It’s time people knew what Lance Ulanoff; Editor-in-Chief at PC Magazine has been up to!! Read on…

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Twitter – why bother?

Find out all about Twitter; what it is, what it does and why YOU should seriously consider using it! Read on…

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Microsoft Surface

Sat here on a linux based PC, writing this post – it’s easy for me to claim I am not one of the world’s biggest Microsoft fans. However, when they get things right it deserves to be noted; and I love the look of the emerging ‘Microsoft Surface‘ technology. ‘Surface‘ allows you to interact directly…

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A few great websites

Here are two great websites for you to check out. The first is going to show you stacks of ways to get things done; the second is what I consider one of the best ‘tech news blogs’ around!

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Microsoft Live Search cash back must fail!

Microsoft announced this week that it will offer cash back to consumers, who search on Microsoft Live and make a purchase. This was treated as news; even though Bill Gates had already told us he was doing it way back in December 2005!

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Twitter, a Cranky Geek, Scoble and Connolly

Legendary ‘Cranky Geek’ John C Dvorak is NOT a big fan of the idea behind the new Scoble show on Revision3. Dvorak told me this morning; “Jim, a weekly half hour show about the future of work? Cripes. Ugh!” – - – - Oh, what John did not know was that Scoble WAS LISTENING – read on…

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Robert Scoble and Revision3 – The facts!

Robert Scoble tells Jim Connolly about his new Revision3 show!

This morning, (UK time) Robert Scoble kindly told me all about his new show on the Revision3 network! Here’s the facts – direct from Robert…

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Leo Laporte has 2 websites hacked & loses $2000 on eBay!

It’s not a good time to be ‘the tech guy!’ Leo has had 2 of his websites hacked and deleted within just a few days of being screwed out of two grand on eBay! Leo, who is well known for his shows with internet security guru Steve Gibson, deserves better than this – read on.

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Scoble on Revision3

Robert Scoble announced at yesterday’s Mediabistro event in NY, that he is to present a new show on the Revision3 network – Confirmed a few hours ago – read on!

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