The Connections Show, an excellent business networking podcast

The Connections Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Stan Relihan, one of Australia’s most connected LinkedIn users, and a professional recruiter based in Sydney. This is one of the most practically useful business podcasts I’ve discovered on the Web. And it’s a real surprise that it comes from Australia, not America, like most of […]

 

Cellphone etiquette for people on the move from BulkSMS

According to Dr Pieter E. Streicher, managing director at BulkSMS.com, “We need an etiquette tailored for business people who communicate on the move. The increase in cellphone usage for work and private calls or messaging is becoming a source of irritation and psychological stress within, and outside, the workplace.” See below for BulkSMS.com’s 10 tips […]

 

Anti child-porn alliance launched in Europe

by Chimwemwe Mwanza* Barcelona – How do mobile operators curb access to websites that pro-actively peddle pornography without interfering in the rights of subscribers? This is one of the biggest challenges facing European mobile operators particularly those in Norway and France. Alarmed at the rate at which children were easily accessing pornography sites, the GSM […]

 

Google Calendar may be the best time mangement and online scheduling tool available

In the mobile world filled with hotspots and wireless, you will be stuck if you continue to use an old-fashioned calendar. I stopped using them years ago. Maybe I’ve been lazy, and I just never got into the whole “writing things down” habit. In the past, I relied heavily on Microsoft Outlook’s awesome calendaring and […]

 

Speed dating wasn't fast enough meeting the Baroness

There was a young man called Ramonwho was tired of being alone.Imagine his stresswhen a man in a dressblew him kisses and followed him home. How many of you have encountered a man dressed up like a woman? Aha! Fortunately, it’s only happened once in my life. So far. A few years ago, I attended […]