Category Archives: Consulting
Targeted Broadband and Digital TV News
This is a reminder for many of you, and that is that this blog maintains an aggregate news feed of hand picked content that is pertinent to the Broadband and Digital TV industries, paying quite a bit of attention towards consumer devices such as STBs and other video/information devices. You can access this information off [...]
IBC 2009 Approaching…
The blog has been a little quiet, but this has been down to some pretty intense project work for a major vendor. However IBC is quickly approaching and thoughts are now turning to what is coming and what I shall be looking at for my annual time there (although a little curtailed compared to normal [...]
CES – Broadband and Digital Technology
CES is happening in Las Vegas right now and a great many new announcements for products and services are being made. It is really worthwhile to keep up with what is going on there. Now we are not ‘doin the bloggin thing’ and blogging the show but you will notice that the News Headlines feed [...]
Press Clippings and Reputation Management
There you are, working away, and how do you keep up with the breaking news in your industry specialism? You are out there on the Internet, your company and you and you want to know everything anyone says about you? Ensure that you are represented soundly and in the right competitive arena. How do you [...]
Wrong laptop… wrong file… where can I get it? Mesh is where
As a consultant, I make use of a wide variety of different computers… laptops, desktops, and netbooks. This leads to an issue with making sure you always have access to your critical files no matter which machine you have with you. My use of the EeePC also has made this critical because it has increased [...]
EeePC and the Consultant Follow up
I posted about looking to the newer Atom based machines to solve the last couple of problems I had with my EeePC. I could not wait however, falling foul of finding a review on EeeUser.com for the new 6600mAh batteries available from Cameron Sino, available for a very reasonable price from Clove Technology. I snapped [...]
EeePC for the Consultant – Long Term Usage
My trusty EeePC has been going now for six months, and how has it faired. Well, it has proven to be pretty good except in three areas… all of which are not killers for the product. It must be said that I refer to the 701 unit with its 7 inch 800×480 screen, rather than [...]
IT Services, IT Security, the User and the Future
I have worked in many organisations over the years, and have experienced how they have provided IT services and dealt with the subject of security – basically as many different ways to do it as there are grains of sand on a beach. One thing though is that most are on the same beach – [...]
EeePC – Real World Use
I have now owned and used the EeePC 701 4G for a little over three months. It has been an interesting time, from boom to bust and back to boom on the use curve. Early Days Firstly I got it as a little device to give me a better email and web browsing experience when [...]
Important Tools for the Consultant Part Three: A mini update
In the discussion about backup, I touched on using some online services for backup, but I missed the other thing that has proven very useful – online storage. Even though I have VPN and backup mechanisms a plenty, I have felt the need to acquire some online storage. Now although the various freebies out there [...]