The United Arab Emirates, and laterally Saudi Arabia, have announced that they intend to block several functions on Blackberry. This can only be a good thing for RIM in my view whilst it obviously it isn’t great for the RIM country managers sales figures for those two markets. Here’s the rub.
What is it with the Northern Ireland/British psyche that people are inclined to be derogatory about stuff, policy, ideas, innovations and such like that are thought up within the confines of ‘our wee country’ or the shores that make up these islands? They fail to support and nurture it and believe that it is good enough to play on the national stage, never mind the global one. Couple that with the penchant for feigning over things thought up in other countries and you have well and truly got on my goat.
I read a great article recently by Web Designer Lee Monroe on the virtues of call to action buttons. The crux of his blog post was that the purpose of these strategically placed devices was to get you the viewer to carry out some form of action justifying the existence of the site. Generally this …
The Con-Dem government launched its new legislation.gov.uk website today which has been touted as holding every single law ever made in the UK since 1267.
Skunk works is perhaps the most interesting area of concern that the IT industry has. Coming from the JFDI school of thinking I have worked on several projects in the private and public sectors and they pose quite a threat to systems integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs), software houses and large consultancies who are the usual suspects when it comes to government IT projects.
Way back in the long winter nights at the start of this year I resolved to do something with my evenings and embarked upon a project to make a new dining table for my house. Sitting at a computer screen all day can be a pretty frustrating experience at times and being a country boy …