Posts Tagged ‘marketing’

Extreme Sheep LED Art

Yes you read the title correctly this is Extreme Sheep LED Art:

Baaavelous…

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Now Intel Is Challenging Psion Netbook Claim

Intel are joining Dell in challenging Psion’s claim to the netbook trademark.
I realise that Dell and Intel’s motives are purely commercial, but I dislike the patent and trademark litigation culture that has grown alongside the technology industry. I agree wholeheartedly that companies ideas and designs should be protected but only when their claims are real [...]

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Psion and the netBook Trademark

As an ex-Psion employee I was disappointed and a little saddened to learn of Psion’s spurious trademark claim to the word netbook. Psion were once a great technology company practically inventing the PDA , creating some classic hardware designs and creating the operating system that powers a huge proporation of today’s smartphones: Symbian.
Psion launched the [...]

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Optimisation Prime

Recently I decided to take this blog a little more seriously, and part of that has been to see where my visitors were coming from and to try and increase my visitor numbers.
Google Analytics reports that 57% of the visitors to david hughes.org arrived from a search engine:

That’s a HUGE proportion from Google, but looking [...]

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Is Social Media the New Marketplace?

Earlier today I mentioned on Twitter that I was going to sell my Samsung NC10 as I’ve bought a MacBook Air. I wasn’t really expecting a response, but within minutes I had an email from somebody interested in it; a few emails later the funds are in my PayPal account and my Samsung is ready [...]

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Virgin Atlantic: 25 Years Still Red Hot

I have a soft spot for Virgin Atlantic having been fortunate to fly Upper Class on a number of occasions. I’ve always thought that the Virgin brand came to life completely on Virgin Atlantic, but I digress.
Virgin Atlantic is 25 years old; I remember when they launched – 25 years has flown by (sorry). To [...]

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