Month: September 2013

  • CoolTec + more news

    CoolTec The first of its kind: Braun CoolTec – Luxury News from Luxury Insider – not convinced by this. In theory the CoolTec setting is designed to soothe your skin while you shave. That should make it suitable for men with sensitive skin. CoolTec seems to be designed around an active ‘cooling bar’; likely some…

  • HTTPS & Google search

    I was talking to colleagues during the week and thought it would be timely answer the question, what does Google moving search click-throughs on to HTTPS mean for PR people? We have less data to use as part of a scientific approach to developing messaging as HTTPS moves inbound search words private. For non-mainland Chinese…

  • Digital interruption

    Digital interruption – preamble This is the first in a number of posts that are designed to expand upon a post I published in May about eight trends for the future. They appear in the order in which I bite them off, chew them around and verbally masticate as posts on the blog. For this…

  • Irish cookery teacher + more

    Irish cookery teacher Irish cookery teacher terrified into handing over website name to Lady Gaga | Irish Business | IrishCentral – the smart thing would have come to an agreement with the Irish cookery teacher and agree to licence the name to her for cookery blogging purposes only. Instead they’ve risked a social media shit-storm…

  • Hilton Worldwide + more

    Hilton Worldwide Hilton Worldwide Files for an IPO – Euromonitor International – interesting analysis of their business. Hilton Worldwide can trace its history back to a Texas hotelier in the early 20th century. It expanded to New York in 1943. Hilton Worldwide was one of the first users of computing with its centralised hotel booking…

  • iPhone 5c / 5s

    Apple iPhone 5c and 5s event I had a late evening in the office so decided to stay up late and follow the Apple event where they unveiled the Apple iPhone 5c and the iPhone 5s. Here are my thoughts from the launch permeated through a couple of days thoughts. Evolution rather than revolution The…

  • Get Lucky & more things

    Get Lucky I missed this earlier on in the summer with the weight of Get Lucky -related content that appears. Get Lucky is undoubtedly a classic that will be played for years to come, so long as Daft Punk allow it. I thought that the 1990 on was particularly well done with the Steve Silk Hurley-esque…

  • The Nokia Microsoft Post

    Nokia Microsoft deal In the week since the news broke my thoughts on the acquisition by Microsoft of Nokia’s device business have slowly coalesced into the notes that make up this post. The two Nokia’s The acquisition is a tale of two businesses, the first business is a business services, cloud computing and network hardware…

  • Yahoo China + more news

    Yahoo China Yahoo China begins shutdown – Globaltimes.cn – will Yahoo China properties like flickr start to get blocked then I wonder since there wouldn’t be anyone in Yahoo China to harmonise the content? Yahoo China stops providing news and community services, hinting at shutdown of its operations – The Next Web – Yahoo China…