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Since the value of the pound has been dominating the news, I wanted to write about a more positive note on the pound. Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched an outward attack on the Conservative Party after the party's shadow Chancellor George Osborne warned that the collapse of sterling would be down to the government's ambitious plans to spend its way out of the economic crisis.

Finally got round to it :)

In the beginning there is love. AMIRA fell into fashion accidentally after a trip to India gave her a sudden flash of celestial inspiration. During her travels she made her own clothes and now nearly four years later her one-off and limited edition fair-trade dresses, tops, bed and beach wear - in printed end-of-run and surplus cottons still sourced by hand from India - are available from eco-boutiques in London, New York, and Milan. View Spring 09»

I have just discovered that fring is now available on the App Store.
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This might make the price of a phone call more competitive.

This survey carried out by Bango had some interesting results, especially when they asked the question; "Does your company have a mobile website?"
I wonder how many of those companies have a website but it can not be viewed on a mobile phone due to bad accessibility and usability.

From the page: "At Gaucho we pride ourselves on the basic philosophy of provenance. To us this means authenticity, assurance and rigorous attention to obtain the finest quality ingredients at source. This dedication ensures that every time you visit us, you experience the true essence of Argentine life. Its food, its wine, its culture and importantly the passion of the people."

Only recently did I joined the creative commons iPhone users and ever since I have enjoyed the rich discussions and ideas of useful software which users can benefit from. Having a hand-help computer at your disposal sometimes enpowers the user to be able to manage their social/work events better. I can't wait to see the improved version of the iPhone OS which might be announced at The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC 08 (lets not forget the iPhone Developer Program) which has been promised to bring us a plethora of cool and must use applications.

I recently attended a tribute to Karen Spärck Jones at The Royal Society of Medicine hosted by the British Computer Society. It was breath taking to listen to Dr Ann Copestake a Reader in Computational Linguistics in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Her lecture on tackling some of the issues relating semantic representation and processing was breathtaking and intense. Ann's lecture covered discussions on scientific text processing and how this relates to semantic web publishing to that of Karen Spärck Jones's concept of the `Information Layer', who was one of the pioneering academic in information retrieval and natural language processing.