Have you ever listened to a podcast? It's not that hard, especially if you own an iPod, although that's certainly not a requirement. Almost any MP3 player short of a Zune can work with them. But I don't want to talk tech right now. Yeah yeah,...

Due to legislation from 2005, the United States will switch to Daylight Saving Time on 11 March this year. Europe will not switch until 25 March, which means two weeks of time differences instead of the usual one week we've adjusted to. On one hand,...

There are some things in the world that are just facts of life. In the IT world one of the themes that recurs the most concerns big companies buying small companies. However, in the highly competitive software space it has increasingly come to be...

Recently my colleague Joyce Becknell and I had a very interesting conversation with Martin Griss, Dean of education at Carnegie Mellon College in Silicon Valley. Over the last few years the school has launched a number of programmes designed to...

As industry analysts, we attend a lot of briefings with IT vendors. While we are clearly interested in the content of these, you can also learn a lot about an organisation and its culture by how the people you meet present themselves and conduct the...

Freeform Dynamics is in the process of adopting Microsoft Office 2007. One of the challenges we have found is that as power users, most of us have Office 2003 menu structures and shortcuts embedded in our brains. When faced with the new Ribbon...

It’s funny how you can find yourself transported back, when faced with a set of stimuli. Pick up and old book, listen to a piece of music or put on a jacket, and sometimes a wealth of memories and feelings can come rushing back. It can be...