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Killing Google Reader

I suppose that we've all known that it was coming. But Google is finally killing off Google Reader completely. Their reasoning, buried away in a brief note about "Spring Cleaning" (i.e. things they've started and decided to finish with) is...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 14, 2013 12:02 AM

Wearable Technology

Last week I spent fifteen minutes in a queue in Piccadilly Station. There's a chap in a booth there who's the best person in London, in my view, to get watches fixed or their batteries replaced. He does everything. He's...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 11, 2013 11:32 AM

A Radio Future

On Monday, the great and the good of the UK radio industry, and visitors from beyond, will gather in Salford for the annual Radio Festival. If you're going, say hi to me! But there are potentially some dark clouds...

Posted by Adam Bowie on November 9, 2012 12:08 AM

Serendipity Redux

No, not a very poor film in John Cusack's ouevre. noun the occurance and development of events by chance in a happy and beneficial way I've said it before, and I'll say it again. This is something that sadly the...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 18, 2011 5:01 PM

At The Front of the Queue

Remember when you were little, and there was always the annoying kid who had everything? He was the person who'd completed their Panini sticker collection before we'd even stuck in the free pack that came with the album. He had...

Posted by Adam Bowie on August 26, 2010 12:41 PM

The iYawn - In Case You Hadn't Heard

Apple as a company is incredibly skillful in the way it essentially manipulates the media surrounding the launch of one of its new products. And the media justs lets itself be manipulated. Apple certainly designs beautiful products that take design...

Posted by Adam Bowie on January 27, 2010 7:27 PM

Email Marketing

This is easily a topic for a book, but I shall limit this to a short rant about Epson. In early January this year I bought a new printer - an Epson. It was nice printer, not massively overpriced,...

Posted by Adam Bowie on June 15, 2009 4:48 PM

A One-stop Audio Shop - Cons (and Pros)

In this week's Broadcast magazine, Emily Bell suggests that it'd be a good idea for there to be a one-stop shop for audio. She's referring, of course, to Tim Davie's interview with Media Guardian on Monday suggesting that the BBC...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 27, 2009 6:17 PM

Radio at the Edge: Redux

It might have cost attendees (or their companies) cold hard cash to attend, but the audio from this year's Radio at the Edge is now available as a series of downloads as well as a summary podcast. Entertainingly, the one...

Posted by Adam Bowie on November 17, 2008 11:00 AM

Cliq

UBC today announced that it was closing down the phone service Cliq while it continues to look towards "connected" radios which will become available later in the year for its future business model. Cliq worked by installing a JAVA app...

Posted by Adam Bowie on June 11, 2008 2:01 PM

Making Your Stuff iPhone Compatable

In the past I've had a bit of a go at websites rushing to produce iPhone friendly versions of themselves. This might be in some part because I'm not an Apple evangelist like so many tech people (I have an...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 10, 2008 9:15 AM

Currys/Dixons to Stop Stocking...

I can't believe the number of times that Dixons Stores Group can put out effectively the same press release, and still get the media lapping it up. Today, it's the shock-horror news that they're no longer going to sell...

Posted by Adam Bowie on May 8, 2007 9:01 PM

Digital Evolution

Reading the BBC's response to Ofcom's Digital Dividend Review (effectively determining what happens to all that bandwidth currently used by analogue TV once it's switched off between 2008 and 2012), it's notable that radio and television in this country are...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 21, 2007 9:05 AM

Tomorrow's World Returns

Four years on - nearly to the day - and Media Guardian is reporting that Tomorrow's World is returning. Well - sort of. The programme itself isn't returning - just elements of it including the title sequence, and, well, the...

Posted by Adam Bowie on January 5, 2007 5:31 PM

Bush TR2015WIFI Wi-Fi Radio

I thought I'd write a brief review of the recently released Bush Wi-Fi radio. With the growing number of home networks being set up, this has to be a growth area for radio, and I've only really been waiting for...

Posted by Adam Bowie on November 21, 2006 4:13 PM