Rob’s Digital Life

Alexandra Levit has shared an exerpt from her book, They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something’s Guide to the Business World.  I think the exerpt is a wonderful reference for first-time business traveler [via businesstravel.about.com]
Number 4 is v.important..write down the terminal you fly from, before you arrive at the arrive at the airport…I’ve been [...]

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gmail just blipped….Adam also spotted it.

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i’ve managed to import my old blog into this one..so this blog now goes back to June 2003.

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I’ll own up to being a tad late to the Skype party but I’m really impressed, I’ve installed it on my home PC,  I’ve even bought  a stack of credit to use for skypeout. I’ve got a softphone on my laptop, but to use it properly means adding a sixth phone number (others are, mobile, [...]

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Level 3 Communications, Inc. announced
today that it has terminated its stockholder rights plan, commonly
referred to as a "poison pill." Level 3 Communications,
Inc. announced today that it has reached agreements to sell $880
million aggregate principal amount of 10% convertible senior notes due
2011.
Quite simply, the termination of the poison pill
simply takes away a takeover defense, and [...]

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MCI chief Mike Capellas, after respectfully
acknowledging Qwest’s offer, told investors that his company was
committed to its pending deal with Verizon. [via thestreet.com]
It looks like I was right, MCI want’s to work with Verizon. MCI and Verizon had to be the right fit for each other. An extra 1.5 odd billion now would be wasted, as [...]

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Phil Baker tries using his pocket PC and skype in Tokyo . It’s an interesting concept that we all know about, but this the first article I’ve read on the subject, with someone actually trying it out whilst traveling. I particularly thought the travel wireless router was cool.

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Following on from my own recent new suit pruchase, there was a small piece in today’s online section of the Guardian about englishcut.com and this is the article on what to do if you can’t afford a bespoke suit.

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"We do not anticipate any significant improvement in market conditions during 2005,"  Said Colt chairman Barry Bateman. [via the register]
I starting to think that the US consolidation will come to the UK soon. There’s just too many Telco’s and not enough business to go around. Some of the big players are bound to start picking [...]

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..every one want’s Quest to buy MCI says Om

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I’m back home after spending four days in london, Two of the days were spent working on complaince issues. We’re working real hard in this area and the team really made an effort and everybody invested a whole load of time in the work. We had a lady over from the US to help and [...]

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I read about this in today’s Observer too, it’s called Delicious library. it looks pretty funky, it allows you to build up a database of all your books and CD’s by scanning the bar code in via a web cam, it then looks them up on amazon and bingo all the info is there….but where [...]

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BT will anounce it’s $10bn network upgrade to an IP only network. This may turn out to be a shrewd move in the UK and the quadruple play I mentioned in my last post will be based around, TV, Voice, Internet and Mobile. But let’s write those out again with the technology behind them that [...]

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The Business has
a very interesting article on the consolidation of the US telco’s and
looks at why they are doing it.  Whilst doing my presentation back in Amsterdam to the Network Service
business line (70 people) I told them then that the likes of the SBC and
AT&T merger would lead to companies not competing against other telco’s [...]

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following on from my post ..it appears that shareholders with approx 15% of MCI have requested the board look at the Qwest offer again.

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