From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Why bank lending can never be the same again

February 27, 2009

The government has said on a number of occasions that it wants the banks to resume lending money to home-buyers and small businesses at the same levels as before the start of the credit crunch. There’s only one problem: doing so would be a sure-fire way to bankrupt the banks. And either the government doesn’t [...]

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Seth Finkelstein nails why TechCrunch sucks in one line

February 24, 2009

In a comment on Rogers Cadenhead’s blog, Seth Finkelstein perfectly captures what the deeper reason behind the TechCrunch/Last.fm poor reporting is: “The basic problem is that there’s no profit (from attention) in being right, but there is in being first.” The first post on a topic gets most of the inbound links, most of the [...]

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Win a Sony P-Series

February 23, 2009

The Sony P-Series might have got some mixed reviews (is it really a netbook at the price of a laptop?) but there’s no doubt it looks good. And if you fancy getting hold of one without shelling out roughly £1300, you can: Sony is giving one away, along with some nice city break holiday, as [...]

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Dear new Twitter followers

February 23, 2009

Over the past few days, I’ve gathered quite a few new Twitter followers. Which is great, of course – hello and welcome! But having said that, it’s probably worth knowing my ground rules for how I use Twitter – my rules of engagement, as it were: I might not follow you back. Generally, I follow [...]

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TechCrunch: Irresponsible journalism

February 23, 2009

The TechCrunch/Last.fm controversy has been all over the net over the weekend, and there’s not much that I can add to it factually. The one thing I will say, though, is that TechCrunch has behaved irresponsible: not so much for the original story – everyone gets it wrong sometimes. But when you get it wildly [...]

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What’s wrong with Techmeme

February 23, 2009

The post at the top, under which all the others are threaded, is in fact a response to the second listed post. The listing isn’t a reflection of the conversation – which would be useful – but of some random measure of “freshness”, “importance”, or whatever. This, I think, makes Techmeme a whole lot less [...]

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Apple’s iPhone slips back behind the BlackBerry

February 20, 2009

Back when Apple announced it had overtaken the BlackBerry in sales, I wrote a piece for Mobile Computer Mag which councilled caution. There were, in fact, several reasons why iPhone sales for that quarter were likely to be high – and noted that it would be the performance of the phone over the coming year [...]

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Lewis Hamilton likes his BlackBerry Storm

February 20, 2009

Of course, I’d be surprised if he didn’t, given that Vodaphone are one of his team’s sponsors. But I’d be interested to hear from anyone who’s actually bought a Storm and used it for an extended period. While the initial reviews weren’t exactly stellar, I suspect it may be one of those phones which takes [...]

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Reports of Android’s demise somewhat exaggerated

February 17, 2009

Information Week’s Eric Zeman decided that the fact he hadn’t heard much about Android on the first day of Mobile World Congress meant that the platform was in trouble: “Um. What gives? Many manufacturers have committed to the Android platform. Where are the handsets? Mobile World Congress is one of the biggest mobile events of [...]

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Congratulations to the Evernote team

February 16, 2009

A hearty “well done” to the team at Evernote, who have been awarded one of MediaSnackers inaugural awards. Evernote is one of the holy trinity of applications that make it possible for me to get to pretty-much all my information from anywhere (along with RememberTheMilk and Google Apps). If you haven’t tried Evernote, I’d recommend [...]

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