by bcanute on May 16, 2009
Amazon is a fine example of how to get ahead in business by staying close to your customers and listening very carefully to what they are telling you.
The Kindle seems to have taken off like the proverbial V8 at the traffic lights.
Blogging Guru, David Risley, has noticed that Kindle are charging a few pennies for [...]
by bcanute on May 11, 2009
My memory of computing goes back beyond “c-dot-prompt”, right back to the days of handing a deck of punch cards through the window for batching on the old university mainframe. So I have seen quite a few innovations in that time.
My prediction is that Kindle is going to be one of the major innovations [...]
by bcanute on February 8, 2009
As a baby boomer, many of my peers have spent the last 10 to 15 years trying to find a job which would fully utilise our talents. Some of us have not been able to find any job at all, while many others have ended up in underemployment where years of education, experience and wisdom [...]
by bcanute on January 15, 2009
The First Wave
It can get very hot during summer in Australia.
Last week, I was in the outback and I stopped in a very small town; so small that it only had one shop.
I was very thirsty and rather hungry, so I became the shop’s only customer at that point in time.
Sadly for me, the pie [...]