Monthly Archives: August 2009

Michael Osterman from Osterman Research was kind enough to post a short piece about Cleartext on Messaging Wire following our briefing with him last week.

Microsoft appeals for stay of Word injunction | Tech News on ZDNet. Whilst I don’t like the way MS operates and feel they’d follow this through if the boot was on the other foot, I also dislike software patents, they’re … Continue reading →

I can’t help but think that using XMPP for bookmark synch is overkill:) http://bit.ly/4C4rxn

Louise spotted this today, we’ve certainly been more favourable to Twitter enabled businesses. —- ‘Avaya nabbed the deal through an unconventional new sales model — Twitter. According to eWay chief executive Matt Bullock, he was evaluating voice solutions and narrowed … Continue reading →

There will be a LOT of startups and their funding partners wondering about the 3rd party Twitter app or web site model at the moment (eg Tweetdeck and Seesmic), following Twitters failure to handle a DDoS attack. Who really thinks … Continue reading →

Looks to me like News Corporation’s light is flickering on the way out with desperate attempts from the ‘bricks and paper’ group to claw back some revenue. What chance does Rupert Murdoch have when sites like the BBC give us … Continue reading →

Brought to my attention by Pat Bitton Why CIOs Need The Transformative Power Of Twitter And here’s a way to get your organisation enabled for Twitter and other micro-blogging services your employees may be using, whilst complying with your requirement … Continue reading →

Having split our business into email services and web development services a couple of years back via cleartext.com and cleartextsystems.com today we’ve reversed this and consolidated at cleartext.com The main reason for this is that we’ve backed away from web … Continue reading →