Apple

Want AccMan on an iPhone or Android device for free?

November 2, 2010 General

Silence at AccMan Towers doesn’t always mean there’s nothing going on, even if Monday was a public holiday in Spain. Instead I’ve been playing with a mobile widget builder: widgetbox. It’s a bit of a content distribution experiment which will run the next two weeks. If enough people like it then I’ll pay for the [...]

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Sage evasive about SaaS offering

September 8, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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The other day, the Twitterverse started humming about Sage allegedly touting a SaaS accounting solution priced at £9.99/month to sit alongside SagePay. It had to be Duane Jackson, CEO KashFlow and self appointed Sage baiter. Sage’s move sort of makes sense given the potential value in payment processing solutions for small business. I’d not heard [...]

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Facebook privacy issues. Where to for professionals?

May 24, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Having been buried in enterprise land the last couple of weeks, I’ve not been taking notice of the gathering storm around Facebook privacy. The last time I wrote about it, I said: Facebook’s increasingly bizarre notion of privacy coupled with the most recent security breach are forcing a number of my colleagues to rethink their [...]

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Out with iPhone (almost) in with Blackberry Bold 9700

April 9, 2010 General

Regular readers may be shocked to learn that I am switching my day to day mobile to a Blackberry Bold 9700. Long story short, I managed to brick my iPhone when the operating system was upgraded to OS3.1.3. It was entirely my own fault for not reading carefully enough. Despite having an 02 chip for [...]

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I'm a PC video stunt caught me out

April 16, 2009 General

This could easily be one for the Mac Fanboys and Girls but when I saw this video I was taken in, only to be told it is in fact a stunt.Just goes to show that ADD is bad enough that I’m clearly not paying enough attention. The more interesting point: when I first saw it, [...]

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More Apple interest and Microsoft disappointment

October 29, 2008 General

Robin Bloor, a research analyst I seem to have known forever reckons that Apple is on a roll and could build on its momentum to capture a significant share of the laptop market: According to Apple’s COO, Tim Cook, about one third of the money spent on computers through US retail (31.3% if you want [...]

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