Monthly Archives: September 2004

Project

Working on a new project so watch this space. We’ve got an interesting idea and it’s all moving ahead nicely right now. Got some web space in the states, installed MT and just fine tuning up the front end. Gonna … Continue reading

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Formula 1

I always wondered how come sponsorship within formula 1 was such a big revenue earner for the teams, but it’s become clear lately. I’ve had two invites to ‘days out’ at the offices of formula 1 teams, so It’s the … Continue reading

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first news posts 1997

I found the old news pages from the Orangery, you can see them here

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BGP problems

Here’s a link to , I guess he’s a senior network guy over at Sun. This post brought all the old memories of supporting networks back

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Provide Commodities or die a slow death

I travelled to Leeds yesterday to have a meeting with a Director of a major Telco and our senior manager for CTO in North Region. It was an interesting meeting, we talked a lot about commoditization of the telco market … Continue reading

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Om Malik Comment

I commented on one of Om Malik’s post, but got some huge cgi error message. SO not sure if it worked. So here’s the post and here’s my comment; if skype uses the internet, then by definition it’s voice over … Continue reading

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Slump in Router sales in EMEA

It makes depressing reading that the market will continue to fall until 2007, yep 2007, well that’s what Infonetics says”According to Infonetics, enterprise router revenues will fall until 2007, when they will recover to 2003′s $4bn total. Voice over IP … Continue reading

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Orange to get MDA II

Mobile phone network Orange is preparing to launch its second-generation wireless Pocket PC, the M2000, and, according to web reports, the device will be based on – yes, you’ve guessed it – the same HTC PDA that’s the basis for … Continue reading

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Treo 650 – Shipping

HTC has started shipping the 650 to PalmOne and the Register suggests that it’ll be available from October.

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Mobile Broadband

I was just reading the latest post on the Eurotelcoblog and it discusses Flarion, “..we believe the company is close to unveiling enhancements to the technology which should treble throughput (currently 1.0 – 1.5Mbps downstream, burstable to 3.2Mbps, and 300 … Continue reading

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Gmail

OK.. I didn’t like the idea at the start and I’m still not sure..but I’ve got one now.. dr.rob.evans at gmail.com. According to Loic you can buy them for $9 at eBay

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Trip to London

Been to London and back again today for a meeting with a customer to go over some contracts for various networks. The pics from the trip (dull) but a log of my day are over in the photoblog.

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it’s just a pipe

I’ve just been reading EuroTelcoblog no 72 and it makes a very clear point. “As fits our long-term fundamental scenario for the sector, the telcos are largely absent from all of these developments, save for providing the pipe which enables … Continue reading

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First Birthday

Happy Birthday Lainey! It’s our daughters first birthday today..we’ve been up since 6.30am opening presents at a rate of one every twenty minutes! Lainey and I are off to the Zoo today.

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SPH-V5400

SPH-V5400 the first handset with a 1.5gb hard disk..wow. It’s billed as the Ipod killer, not sure, but will make a dent it sales..still think people will buy Ipods as lot’s of people think they are cool. I googled for … Continue reading

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