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I can barely describe how excited I am about the next episode of the GTA series: Grand Theft Auto 5. Known for their cinematic engagement, stunning visuals, open-ended play and well-rounded characters, the franchise gets better and better with each release. Grand Theft Auto 5 should be something quite special. And from the recent marketing […]
Continue ReadingIt has been 25 years since the last redesign but here it is, Microsoft’s new logo: What do you think? Microsoft’s New Logo I do believe that companies should refresh themselves every so often. Microsoft’s old logo is a classic and timeless so there must have been something significant to have encouraged them to […]
Continue ReadingTaxonomy Taxonomy is the classification and categorisation of… uh, stuff. First we will look at the various kinds of toilet paper you will find, bog roll if you will, their properties and the differentiators between them. If you go into your local supermarket-me-do, you will notice that for a half-decent toilet roll you’ll pay about […]
Continue ReadingThere are two ways make a product successful: either you saturate consumers with marketing so there literally is no other choice but to buy it (“push”), or you make the product so appealing that it hardly needs any marketing capital at all (“pull”). Apple Right now, Apple is proving that pull is the approach […]
Continue ReadingDo you trust Google? Should you trust Google? Can you trust Google? Google is on the fast train to becoming an international scandal. In May 2010 it emerged that when the company sent out its roving camera cars to take all those “Street View” photos, it also slurped up any and all WiFi data it […]
Continue ReadingI’ve spent the last half hour clicking a “Download” link in Hotmail trying to get something to… ahem… download, but it just sits there doing nothing. Absolutely sod all. Naturally, I switch to Twitter, fully intending to spout some completely disproportionate rant involving lava and fire and incurable, groin-rotting STDs aimed squarely at Microsoft’s Online […]
Continue ReadingGoogle has announced the release of Chrome version 22 to developers. The exciting thing about this version is Chrome Packaged apps: a mechanism which allows web applications to behave much more like native applications, blurring the lines between the two. Packaged apps are installed for offline use by default and also open up new low-level […]
Continue ReadingSo what should you be expecting from your business software in 2012? Or to quote Jive Software: “Why can’t business be social?”
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