Monthly Archives: July 2005

Orange Releases C500 ROM Upgrade Featuring WMP10

Orange has just released a ROM upgrade for the C500 which features Windows Media Player 10. [via] will, upgrade as soon as I find 10 spare minutes.

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Telecoms ‘key to getting UK out of a jam’

TELECOMS giant BT has warned that traffic congestion and pollution will increase across the UK unless industry and government make greater use of communications technology. The firm says video conferencing, teleworking and other measures could lead to huge reductions in … Continue reading

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UK wins breakthrough on telecoms data storage

Britain has secured a breakthrough in its efforts to pass controversial European Union-wide rules on storing telecommunications and internet use in the wake of last week’s London bombings. At an emergency meeting in Brussels, European justice ministers agreed in principle … Continue reading

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IBM promotes blogging on the job

IBM plans to add blogging capabilities to the next version of its Workplace collaboration and development software, the company said on Wednesday. [via] The tools are already there, but I guess if they make it even easier then great. I … Continue reading

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2 mins silence

2 mins silence Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. IBMers down by the River Thames observing the two minutes silence

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GTD jumpstart

Slacker Manager writes a great peice on jump starting Getting things done here, and I’ve  just seen a great post on making sure you do what you get paid to do on Open Loops

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Clarke calls Europe to hold telecoms data for three years

The Home Secretary Charles Clark is spearheading a European effort to convince internet and phone companies to keep private e-mails, text messages and mobile phone records for up to three years. [via] I guess we’re going to see a price … Continue reading

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Sprint buys its way out of trouble

Sprint has pre-empted the continuation of a campaign by a Louisiana telco, US Unwired, against Sprint’s planned merger with Nextel Communications, and it has done so by the simple expedient of buying it, lock, stock and barrel. Sprint is spending … Continue reading

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IBM partners to offer broadband from a wall plug

IBM is expected to announce a partnership Monday with CenterPoint Energy, a utility based in Houston, to develop broadband services to be delivered over electric power lines. [via] It says expected and I don’t know if they did announce, but … Continue reading

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London

I’m off to London tomorrow morning by train. I’m sure I’ll see more police than ever before at the stations. Back Thursday, so one night in the big smoke.

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Cricket

I turned down a corporate trip to the Cricket today, England v Australia at Lords, lucky really, England got thumped.

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Bike

my bike has completed it’s upgrade process and is now pretty much complete. I’ll do a pic and flickr note up the pic as soon as.

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SKYPE as a back up

On the day of the london bombings I had 4 conf calls with the US. The first time I tried to join the call by dialing the US number I got a message from the BT lady saying "sorry all … Continue reading

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Voice added to ICT

voice was added today as a plug-in to IBM community tools (ICT). So now we have a SKYPE style tool for communicating with other IBMers. I’ve mailed the link out to a few of the guys so we’ll give them … Continue reading

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VOIP at home

My new Plantronics USB headset turned up the same day as the new printer. Loads of new toys last week, new printer, new headset, new carkit wow. Anyway, been using it with the SIP phone on my thinkpad and have … Continue reading

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