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Improving productivity – get your systems right.

blair — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:25:41 +0000

In times like these every business has to focus on productivity. With people (your customers) closing their wallets and reducing their spending, small business owners have to take the approach of focusing on how they can better utilise their time and reduce costs. The area where every tradesperson can benefit is in the process of invoicing [...]

Apple’s Safari the next IE6? A response.

andy — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:32:59 +0000

I just read a very interesting article on OS News about the potential for Safari to be the next IE6. The author is exploring a future where Apple deliberately holds back on giving Safari certain features, especially on mobile phones and tablets. Give it a read: http://www.osnews.com/story/23378/Will_Apple_Embrace_the_Web_No_ The argument is essentially that [...]

Android overtaking the iPhone within 3 years?

andy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:40:57 +0000

Google’s “Android” operating system is certainly getting it’s fair share of rosy coloured predications lately. The latest comes from an analyst at Gartner who predicts that Android will overtake the iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile within 3 years: http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=15744&news=Android+iPhone+Windows+Mobile+BlackBerry+webOS Overtaking Windows Mobile isn’t hard to imagine, especially if Microsoft can’t make Windows Mobile 7 radically [...]

Palm recovering, Ballmer throws another chair

andy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:49:23 +0000

I was very pleased this morning when I read that Palm's new WebOS platform is selling well (http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9899/palm-reports-q1-fy-2010-results/). In comparison to the same quarter last year, Palm has more than doubled their quarterly unit sales to 823k since the Palm Pre went on sale. When you consider that this next quarter should see Palm selling in the United Kingdom and Europe with both CDMA and GSM versions and that Palm has just began selling the Pre in Canada, these figures may well double again in 3 months, putting Palm well and truly back in the smartphone game and on the way to financial recovery.

Webkit browser on Blackberry? We’d like to see that!

jono — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0000

The manufacturer of Blackberry phones, Research in Motions (RIM), recently acquired software developer Torch Mobile. Torch Mobile develops a mobile web browser called Iris, which is based on WebKit, a leading browser rendering engine. The significance of this is that software developers should finally be able to deliver a feature rich browser based experience to Blackberry users, [...]

Thinking about the accounting software market

blair — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:35:41 +0000

15 years ago you would have bought an early generation windows application that had been migrated from DOS. Also around this time was the introduction of the entry-level cashbook & accounting systems. The computerised accounting software market is now some 15 years old in the modern PC environment (i.e. Windows & Macintosh). For the user this [...]

Google ChromeOS. Help or Hindrance?

jono — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:21:07 +0000

Google's recent announcement that it was developing its own operating system (OS) based on Linux has been received with mixed reviews. According to Google, the OS will focus on speed, simplicity and security and will initially be targeted at netbooks, with its primary objective of allowing users to run a browser to access their online services. Importantly, it will be [...]