Technology

Forrester research & The Register report that iTunes music store has experienced plummeting sales this year - reportedly down 65% since January. It seems that despite the price advantage of digital downloads, consumers still buy the majority of their music on CD. Yet sales of CDs are down 20% over the last five years.  Josh...
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The Amazing Group is a local company that does  . . .  er . . . amazing things, all based around creating innovative on-line products and services. It’s CEO is Paul Campbell (no - not the Canadian actor) - one of the nicest and most focused people I’ve ever met. Their latest thing is Amazing...
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When one of my favourite bloggers (/grumpy old men) mentioned a Dilbert posting, I just had to read more. Especially in the context of Bill Gates running for President!? Scot Adams has noticed that atheists, with Richard Dawkins leading the charge are coming out. In the wake of 9/11, it’s acceptable to not believe in...
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I was running a workshop this week, and one of the participants had obviously just discovered that Outlook does more than just Email. He’d discovered ‘Tasks’, which held the promise of efficiency and memory as yet unachieved. I still get caught by this in Daylite, as I schedule stuff into the future (specially sales /...
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I bought an iPod three years ago - a third generation (just before the click-wheel, but after the button-whel), and finally the battery’s started to get rather flakey. Now I just love to get new Apple gizmos, and even though the iPod’s come down in price A LOT (£400 three years ago for a 40GB...
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