Technology Changing Lives

My job means on a day to day basis I try to help businesses improve by the use of technology. It’s very satisfying when you see “the penny drop” for someone after explaining a concept. I saw this after a SharePoint demo at the back end of last week – I love listening to conversations

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Digital Discrimination

I originally started another post that would mention this but I’ve decided it deserves a post all on it’s own Over the last few days I’ve been playing with the new Xbox features (that’s the post I started, it’s on the way!) When I first turned my Xbox on there was a handy little video

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Customer Service and Service Delivery – Get it right!

I’ve not written a post like this in a while! I’ve had a couple of experiences over the last few days that reinforces how customer service and service are not mutually exclusive You need to get them both right if you want your business to stand out from the rest. This sort of thing is

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My Windows Phone – HTC Touch 2 and Mobile Madness

Let’s get something out of the way – I don’t want an iPhone :-p No that’s out the way back to the post… Our mobile contract recently expired so I try to approach this in a reasonably simple manner 1) Is the price plan fitting our needs? If it is then I don’t really want

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Sky Player on Xbox 360 – Fail!

Regardless of the title this post actually has nothing to do with the “technical issues” that caused Sky Player to get pulled from the Xbox dashboard today It’s to do with the way it’s been priced There are two ways to get Sky Player on your Xbox As an existing Sky customer If you are

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AMITPRO Meeting – October 2009

I’ve been meaning to post about the changes at AMITPRO for a little while but I’ve been a bit on the busy side recently. I’ve started the post about three times and never finished it! So the changes…if you’re a regular attendee to AMITPRO you’ll already know that Steve Wright has decided to stand down

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ZTE MF627 and Windows 7

Just a quick one! I recently acquired a 3 Mobile broadband dongle The specific model of the dongle is ZTE MF627 When i ran the installer program on my laptop (which is running Windows 7 Professional) everything seemed to install ok but it refused to pick up the modem I tried it on my netbook

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Spreading the word

Slightly off topic but I haven’t posted in a while so why not I’ve become quite familiar with the inner workings of WordPress recently. This blog runs on WordPress but I’ve also done a couple of installations for my wife (who is amazing by the way!) Photo Blog (www.bryonyparkes.co.uk) This is pretty self explanatory. Bryony

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