Monthly Archives: May 2004

Passport to the Pub

As it’s the weekend my thought’s turn to the pub (again!). Anyway, over at Kev’s blog, he’s found an interesting site – Passport to the Pub: A guide to British pub etiquette . I can’t work out if it’s real … Continue reading

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PTSL

Long day today, up at 5.30 and in IBM Warwick for 8am (120 mile trip), that toll road is great, 45 mins off my trip, spent most of the day on the phone. I’ve got a new role I’ve inherited … Continue reading

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Where’s Wally Russ?

Russ has lost something hence the suspension..we wonder what?

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Will we need IT support in the future?

Where does this leave us? It looks as though the clock could be ticking for corporate IT and security departments in the same way typing pools bit the dust over 20 years ago. The tyranny of the typing pool ended … Continue reading

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Poor take up of MMS in UK

This is no surprise, when it’s 25p to send a picture, that MMS hasn’t been the start of the multimedia revolution. Now I’ve got two camera phones, a Sony Ericsson T610 and a Handspring Treo 600 and I use both … Continue reading

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Google’s blog

Google has gone and started a weblog, now that they own Blogger it’s no great surprise. However, it looks like you could Google for the film of the American, Nicholas Berg, being beheaded, oh dear. The apology is here and … Continue reading

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EU broadband growth outpaces US

Yes this is good news, but now the EU (and the countries themsleves) has to leverage that uptake and the benefit it brings, to help grow the economies of the nations taking these giant leaps. [via The Register]

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MCI to axe 7,500 jobs

MCI – formerly known as WorldCom – has described the telco’s market place as an “adverse industry environment”. Recently MCI escaped bankruptcy in US, it’s rumoured to have happened as they were a preferred supplier to the US government, but … Continue reading

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3G subscribers to top 5 million in 2004

Analysis Research, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and media (www.analysys.com), have reported that 3G subscriptions in Western Europe will rise to 27 million at the end of 2005. Here are their predictions based on their research.. * 3G subscribers … Continue reading

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Trip to Glasgow….well Greenock really.

I’ve got a voice meeting in Greenock tomorrow, so I’m packing and sorting stuff out ready for tomorrow. Hopefully my secretary booked me into the Hotel I asked for. It’ll give me a chance to catch up on phone calls … Continue reading

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Manual Trackbacks in Typepad

The Blinne Blog: Manual Trackbacks in Typepad Trackback is a feature that’s sort of included with the Typepad package I’ve chosen. Manual Trackback isn’t available when your editing a post online, but it is available when you setup Quickpost..how bizzare. … Continue reading

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Deuchars IPA

A bit off topic, but I just felt the need to shout about this beer, Deuchars IPA. Now that it’s got to the point where I can only handle a few pints, it’s nice to have something with a real … Continue reading

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Semacode

Frank Koehntopp has blogged an article on Mobitopia about Semacode, which is really interesting. “Anyway – in short, it’s a URL encoded in a 2D bar code, that can be picked up by a Symbian camera phone and linked to … Continue reading

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Rumour: Dell to buy palmOne?

Over at Engadget, they posted a piece on rumours of Dell buying Palmone the makers (after they bought handspring) of amongst other things the Treo 600. Like the piece says, Dell has only dipped it’s toe in the water with … Continue reading

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BT wins big airport contract

It might be me being picky but £46 million isn’t big, But still it’s another win for BT who continue to pick up outsourcing deals at the moment. Maybe I should create a league chart scoring the deals won, with … Continue reading

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