Who exactly does Jolicloud compete with?

by Tony Hung on November 28, 2010

Don’t get us wrong, we love the Cloud-based operating system and there’s nothing quite like it out there right now (well, at least until Chrome OS arrives), but when you consider that most netbooks with Windows 7 Starter cost around £229 (…)

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Google’s imperfections

by Tony Hung on November 27, 2010

It’s all part of a sales strategy, he said. Online chatter about DecorMyEyes, even furious online chatter, pushed the site higher in Google search results, which led to greater sales. He closed with a sardonic expression of gratitude: “I never (…)

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On More or Less Permanent Hiatus

by Tony Hung on August 11, 2009

Well, after another brief shpurt of blogging, I’ve decided to kind of suspend things on DJI in more or less permanent hiatus.   The reason?  Not that I don’t have anything in particular to say (which I do, at times), so (…)

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Teens Not Twittering? Absolutely. Here’s the Evidence.

by Tony Hung on July 13, 2009

No, I didn’t conduct the research myself, but as astutely pointed out by Ben Parr, the recent report commissioned by Morgan Stanley regarding one teen (and his friend’s) internet / technology related activities may seem the sweeping generalizations of a (…)

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WolframAlpha, Where Are You?

by Tony Hung on July 13, 2009

Time will tell if it was Bing’s inherent abilities or Microsoft’s deep-pockets spending that caused the initial bump of 8% in unique users after the first month — but its clear what is suffering from a lack of Buzz … Wolfram Alpha. (…)

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Will Microsoft Use Office 10 To Push Internet Explorer and Silverlight?

by Tony Hung on July 13, 2009

In advance of the inevitable blogging orgy around Microsoft’s Office 10, only a couple of questions I’d like answered: Will Office 10 work “better” in Internet Explorer, and will it require Silverlight to work?  It would be fascinating (and stupid) (…)

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Still Suspended On Twitter. No, I Don’t Have a Koobface Infection.

by Tony Hung on July 11, 2009

So, as Louis Gray discovered (to my shame), my Twitter account has been suspended. I understand that I’m in some company, and it probably predated a human-related error that occurred several days ago. I have no idea why this is (…)

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