I’m the first to complain when a business treats me badly. But I’m also the first to sing the praises of a company who have given me a good experience. This Christmas, online technology box-mover, eBuyer have really impressed me… I ordered a new graphics card one Monday night in Continue Reading
Ferrari Rediscovers Its Design Mojo
Jeremy Clarkson once said on Top Gear, “when Ferrari’s F1 cars are doing dreadful, their road cars are brilliant,” or words to that effect. If the reverse is also true, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa are in for another disappointing year. F70 Ferrari’s F40 was an amazing piece of engineering Continue Reading
Shock News: Being a Dick Isn’t Good for Business
When a guy (Dave) emailed Ocean Marketing for an update on his order for the “Avenger” game controller, he was met with abuse and condescention. “We do value our customers but sometimes we get children like you we just have to put you in the corner with your im Continue Reading
Santa’s Elves Decorate Air Baltic 737
Elves have been spotted tampering with one of Air Baltic’s Boeing 737 aircraft. See the video below:
Zynga’s $10 IPO, and Salesforce’s “Do” takes on Jive
It’s a big week for tech companies going public! Tomorrow (Thursday 16th December 2011), Zynga, the company behind such social gaming classics as Farmville, Cityville, Mafia Wars and Words with Friends, will begin trading on NASDAQ, just three days after social-networks-for-enterprises company, Jive, did the very same. Jive set an Continue Reading
Don’t Worry, Past-Dweller, There Is No Cloud.
If buzzwords were currency, the one worth the most at the moment is undoubtably “Cloud”. The problem with buzzwords is that nobody puts any faith in them, they’re bandwagons and may be gone tomorrow. Who wants to invest in something that is vague enough to mean pretty much anything? (There’s Continue Reading
Jive Goes Public!
Social Networks-for-Enterprise specialist, Jive Software is to go public this morning (Tuesday 13th December, 2011) with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) that could value the company in excess of half a billion dollars. The company will trade on the NASDAQ as “JIVE”. I love Jive, as I said in my Continue Reading
New York’s Most Important Building
The terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, may have missed an opportunity to deliver a serious blow to capitalism as well as killing thousands of innocent people. Situated just a few hundred yards from the Twin Towers sits an art-deco, red-brick building which Continue Reading