Rob’s Digital Life

..somebody told me that SBC are going to buy AT&T..I’m drowing in emails from everybody telling me the news.

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A deal could usher in the next chapter of restructuring in the
sector, creating a vertically integrated communications giant with a
strong presence across technologies and customer bases.
Analysts
believe this may in turn trigger another wave of consolidation as SBC’s
fellow regional telecoms such as Verizon and BellSouth also seek to
extend their reach.
The most likely targets would be MCI, [...]

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SBC Communications and AT&T
on Monday said they had approved a $16bn merger that will create the
largest telecommunications company in the US and end AT&T’s
120-history as an independent company.

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Under
the terms of the deal approved by both boards, shareholders at AT&T
will receive stock worth $18.41 a share and a special dividend of $1.30
a share. This means [...]

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If you strapped enough LaserJet printers together, could you make a life
raft?
At some point during the past few days, Carly Fiorina must have pondered the
question.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Hewlett-Packard’s board is
considering a plan to take some of Fiorina’s chief executive authority away and
divvy it up among three underlings.[via Houston Chronicle]
I read [...]

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BT Global Services, the international arm of the telecoms group,
is to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on further acquisitions in a bid to
challenge IBM in the IT services sector.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Andy Green, the
head of the division, said the group is planning a string of further
acquisitions. The telecoms group [...]

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The razr is the phone of choice for the chav but now they’re all gonna be a bit miffed as there’s an even more exclusive chav phone..the black razr.  I can’t see it being as big as the silver coloured phone as chav is all about being as ‘bling’ as possible with your obligatory burberry [...]

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Back to Amsterdam again this week, flying out Tuesday morning and back Thursday afternoon with KLM.
It’s the EMEA Networking Services education sessions and as I’ve mentioned before I’ve got a presentation on the Teleco landscape and procurement. I’ve also got an hour slot and the NSD EMEA team meeting the day before…two different presentations [...]

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As I mentioned a few days ago the HD on the house PC was clicking away and due to die at any moment. So I bought a new 120gb HD and some more ram and a new case and CPU fan along with a new silent power supply too. I spent most of yesterday installing [...]

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It’s been over a week now since it arrived and so far I’m impressed. It does what it says on the tin, it’s a smart phone.  It syncs up to my Lotus Notes via mNotes which is great. So I can read my Notes on the go and have an uptodate calendar and to-do list [...]

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All the financial papers are reporting it’s more advanced than they first thought. So is it a done deal..I don’t know, but it looks very likely. The interesting part will be what will the new company want to do here in EMEA, we can only wait and see.

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I’ve just had my ID back to get onto the early adopters programme for Lotus Notes 7. So, as soon as I get some time, I’ll give the new tool a go. I was on the early adopters programme for Notes 6 which didn’t seen that far back too. I’m also took part in the [...]

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Germany’s Siemens group has seen another set of poor results from its
struggling mobile phone business. The Mobile Devices unit, which is part of
Siemens’ Communications division, made a loss of EUR143 million in its first
quarter ending 31 December, compared to a profit of EUR64 million in the same
period last year. This is the unit’s third straight [...]

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BT Group and US drugs company Bristol-Myers Squibb have signed a USD500
million telecoms contract, according to analysts. The UK telco has refused to
comment on the value of the deal, but according to the CEO of its Global
Services division, Andy Green, it is ‘10 times’ the size of BT’s previous
telecoms projects carried out in the US. [...]

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SBC Communications, the second-largest regional phone company in the nation, is in talks to buy AT&T for more than $16 billion, according to executives close to the negotiations.

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A
deal, if reached, would be the final chapter in the 120-year history of
AT&T, the first technological giant of the modern age and the
original model for telecommunications companies [...]

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I stumbled onto this list via Light reading..v.amusing…
1. Phartronics Engineering (no Website, sadly… just follow your nose)
They can measure everything these days!
2. Airbiquity
It’s clever, and it’s boring, all at once!
3. PipingHot Networks (PHN)
eww! (At least it’s not steaming, as well.)
4. McData Corp.
"We’re fast, and we’re crappy!"
5. Accordion Networks Inc.
"Weddings and Bar Mitzvahs our specialty."
6. Dorsal Networks
"We’re flat on our backs!"
7. 2nd Century [...]

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