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Comment on Lotus Notes integrating with Tungle by Darren

Darren — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:31:36 +0000

Not quite the same thing, but there used to be a tool that would allow you to upload and sync calendars to Palm devices (and I’m talking back in the days when the Palm V was the dog’s gonads). I think it was called WeSync.

Comment on Lotus Notes integrating with Tungle by Chris Miller

Chris Miller — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:14:27 +0000

Great review, I had the pleasure to sit with Marc to do a podcast interview for Lotusphere. I used their product before the Notes integration and love the features. This is a big win for Lotus being recognized in the social media space.

See the signup links in my show notes of the interview.

http://planetlotus.org/622bb8

Comment on Lotus Notes integrating with Tungle by Jonathan Levitt

Jonathan Levitt — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:09:59 +0000

Darren,

Thanks for the post and for spreading the Tungle love! We very much appreciate it.

Comment on Annual moan about The Brit Awards, 2010 edition by Florida Steve

Florida Steve — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:42:15 +0000

What a sad state of affairs. With all the British Albums released over the past 30 years, both Warren and I called it.

Just goes to show that there really weren’t that many to choose from after all.

Comment on Annual moan about The Brit Awards, 2010 edition by Warren Elsmore

Warren Elsmore — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:29:26 +0000

Ah, Mr Adams – we shall have to agree to disagree. You almost had me at Tubular bells (which is brilliant and game changing, even if I was only, well, -3 at the time it was released!). ‘What’s the story’ would be a much better choice.

But… Dizzee Rascal is damn good. Best album perhaps not, but he’s had some cracking tracks this past 12 months. And that’s from a man getting so old that he called the cops on his neighbours Saturday night for making just too much noise, goddammit!

Comment on Annual moan about The Brit Awards, 2010 edition by Florida Steve

Florida Steve — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:57:02 +0000

Sorry to do this to you Daz but you are getting old and you haven’t realised it.

Most of those 30 years of Brits albums that you mentioned are well over 30 years old. Led Zep IV, Night at the Opera, Band on the Run, Dark Side and Tubular Bells were all released in the 70’s.
Even the best stuff that the Police did is now 30+.

But I do agree with you that the Brit selections are horrible.

It is hard to think of many truly special British albums from the last 30 years.
Maybe “What’s the Story” by Oasis as it probably changed British music forever.
“Pyromania” Def Leppard. It made them the biggest band in the world in the 80’s.

Maybe they plumped for this bunch of dross because good British music really isn’t global anymore.

Comment on So, it’s basically a big iPod touch by TimsterC

TimsterC — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:08:24 +0000

I recognise that iPod statement, 2 people 4 iPods, go figure.

Comment on Apple hype over-drive by Florida Steve

Florida Steve — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:52:41 +0000

This might give you a clue.

A major foot in mouth moment.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc.’s CEO spoke on CNBC Tuesday and appeared to confirm speculation that Apple Inc. will indeed unveil a tablet computer running on iPhone software during a highly anticipated media event Wednesday.

Harold McGraw, the company’s chief executive, was discussing his company earnings on the cable business news channel. When asked about the tablet, McGraw said Apple will “make their announcement tomorrow on this one” and that “the tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system.”

McGraw-Hill is a major developer and publisher of educational materials and textbooks, and some of its college texts are already available for reading on Apple’s iPhone. If Apple’s tablet is based on the iPhone system, the investments McGraw-Hill and other publishers have already made in e-books would still be relevant on the new device.

Looks like the partners are already lining up to his the College market.

Just as an aside, it is also thought that Apple will announce an upgrade on the iPhone software and the inclusion of a Flash for the camera.

Comment on Apple hype over-drive by Darren

Darren — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:41:34 +0000

However, assumption being the mother of all cock-ups, what’s gonna happen if all this speculation is wide of the mark and Apple don’t announce anything? Those shares could plummet.

Having said that, so much speculation must be based on some solid facts… right?

Comment on Apple hype over-drive by Florida Steve

Florida Steve — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:30:20 +0000

Hype on Apple

Let’s face it, Jobs can do no wrong in the eyes of the media and as an Apple shareholder, I am loving every minute of it.

Even with the shares currently valued at $206, most of the Wall Street pundits think there is quite a way to go in terms of upside. Wall Street price targets currently range from about $240 all the way up to $300 a share and that is without the iSlate ( or whatever they call it ) in the numbers as there is no price point to base the numbers on yet.
The last quater was huge. The Mac sales are accelerating quicker than ever, they sold 21 million iPods and although the iPhone sales fell a little short, that should all be remedied with the rollout of the iPhone in other countries and opening it up to other carriers here in the US.
The big announcement on the tablet is at 6pm GMT ( 10am in San Francisco )

Can’t wait!!!!