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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog By a fearsome combination of people off on their hols and others in their sickbeds, it falls to me to present the stuff about ZDNet UK edit and sales: I find myself for the first time stuck in front of a PowerPoint presentation talking about...
[July 23, 2004, 18:00 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Microsoft can't out-cool Apple
Talkback After the success of Win1995, the world changed and they have not been able to figurre it out because like old generals', they're still fighting the last war - every consumer attempt on their part has either failed or is only alive because they...
About: Microsoft can't out-cool Apple
[October 4, 2004, 19:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is followed by organised sports, an activity which I regard with baleful malevolence. For virtuous reasons, ZDNet's own Andrew Donoghue and silicon.com's Will Sturgeon have organised a hacks vs flacks rounders competition in Hyde Park.
[August 18, 2006, 20:35 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Cybercops score against football fraudsters
Blog The Police Central e-Crime Unit, which launched earlier this year, has notched up a series of wins against websites aimed to defraud sports fans. For the full story on the football fraud crackdown, head over to silicon.com.
[August 11, 2009, 15:03 in News Blog by ZDNet UK News Network]
Smile like you mean it: developing for the commercial web 2.0 world
Blog Perhaps not quite artificial intelligence for the web, but at least a new level of fine tuning akin to switching your car into a sports gearbox ratio, or indeed back to economy drive. Next month’s event has a session I plan to attend entitled...
[August 28, 2008, 14:46 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
RE: Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment who says that he learned how to code by dumpster diving for other people's listings, and who watches sports on YouTube. I'm lucky, because I live near to some huge record shops and there are online services like bleep.com who provide the sort of...
[November 25, 2006, 16:42 by Rupert Goodwins]
The return of Apricot
Blog Launched today, the device sports a 1.2GHz Via processor, a 60GB hard drive and what the company calls "WiMax support", although don't take this to mean it actually has WiMax built into it or anything - it just could, if there was any point to...
[October 16, 2008, 12:53 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Benefits of breaking free from a desk
Blog Taken them to swimming lessons in the middle of the day and attended their various sports days. David Gempton www.ttc4it.com My children have never known life where I kept a nine to five office job. I have always been at home to send them off to...
[February 20, 2008, 4:50 in On The Road by David Gempton]
Wednesday
Blog Dave and Buster's is a bit like a TGI Friday, only enormously bigger and with a gaming theme: it has acres of pool hall, multiple independent sports bars and a place almost, but not quite, like a Las Vegas casino.
[February 19, 2003, 16:51 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Mobile marketing innovations will drive Etisalat Nigeria
Blog Two to five minutes mobisodes of Nigeria Drama, musicals and comedy will be a huge hit in the 140 million fun loving Nigerian market but the operators are rather focused on full length sports and news channles.This does not come cheap for an...
[July 24, 2008, 10:59 in Nigeria Mobile Marketing by Nigeriatelecoms]
Mobile marketing Innovations will drive Etisalat Nigeria
Blog Two to five minutes mobisodes of Nigeria Drama, musicals and comedy will be a huge hit in the 140 million fun loving Nigerian market but the operators are rather focused on full length sports and news channles.This does not come cheap for an...
[April 3, 2008, 13:56 in Nigeria Mobile News by emmanuel@relianceinfosystems.com]
BlackBerry App World
Blog At launch these ran to: entertainment, games, maps and navigation, music and video, news and weather, personal finance and banking, personal health and wellness, productivity and utilities, professional and business, reference and ebooks, social...
[April 2, 2009, 14:00 in Marginalia by Sandra Vogel]
Wednesday: Commodores are back
Blog A quiet day in the office -- why, did you think we went home after the sports day? Wednesday 16/07/2003 marked only by quiet groans. Whether this is the after-effects of the evening or a reaction to yet another set of digital camera pics getting...
[July 18, 2003, 16:28 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Sony's super-thin, super-light VAIO X
Blog The lightweight carbon-fibre casing is either gloss or matte finished, depending on whether you specify, respectively, the top-end VPC-X11Z1E/X with a 2GHz Atom processor and a 256GB SSD, or the entry-level VPC-X11S1E/B, which sports a 1.86GHz CPU...
[October 8, 2009, 18:06 in Reviews Blog by First Take]
Council workers lose jobs over eBay 'addiction'
Blog Apparently some of the the staff members at Neath Port Talbot were spending up to two hours a day on eBay and entertainment sites such as sports pages. One council worker has been sacked, and two have lost their jobs over spending too much time on...
[September 21, 2007, 15:23 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Tuesday: Foam, Inflatables and Vodka
Blog Yes, it's school sports day all over again. Perhaps you enjoyed school sports days, or at least found them a pleasant break from routine. See, told you it was just like school sports day. Tuesday 15/07/2003
[July 18, 2003, 16:28 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Friday: A sticky wicket
Blog said Graeme 'Silly Mid Off' Wearden, star reporter and sports nut de tutti nutti. Friday 4/7/2003 The ZDNet UK office is mad about sport. Man, woman, manager: the lot of 'em. Except me. With the solitary exception of croquet, there's nothing in the...
[July 4, 2003, 17:33 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Motorola MC9500: a modular enterprise handheld
Blog The device also sports a laptop-style charge-remaining and battery health indicator, which we've not seen before on a handheld. Since it took over Symbol back in 2006, Motorola has been a leader in the enterprise handheld market, and its new MC9500...
[September 17, 2009, 16:42 in Reviews Blog by First Take]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog None of your Snake nonsense here -- yeah, I know, Snake's cool but I was playing Qix on a Vax twenty years ago -- these are yer actual sports simulations. Now, sports simulations have as much appeal for me as rolling naked down a cow pasture, but I...
[May 18, 2001, 21:47 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 run Windows Mobile 6.5
Blog Like its predecessor it sports a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The X2 also sports the panels that I so disliked in the Xperia X1. Yesterday I blogged that we might expect a flurry of announcements of devices to run Windows Mobile 6.5, and Sony Ericsson...
[September 3, 2009, 10:13 in Reviews Blog by Sandra Vogel]
