Rob’s Digital Life

   
         
   
   
   
   
   
         Hewlett-Packard (HPQ
) is in advanced talks to sell all or part of its ProCurve networking
equipment business to one or more private-equity firms, according to
sources close to the discussions. [via]
It’s only getting out of networking equipment, I wonder if it’s going to pull out [...]

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I replaced the Linksys AP (WEP11) with a Belkin AP today. it’s 802.11G and backward compatible too. So I’ve got a 54mbps wireless network now.
It’s mush more stable, I’ve no idea why the Linksys just died it’s been in constant use for 3 nearly 4 years, but I guess that length of service isn’t [...]

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  secondary screen    Originally uploaded by Rob Evans.
Had a bad day with wireless today the AP died so it’s back to a wired connection for a while until I replace the AP.
But it dawned on me that as I was now having to sit at the PC desk that [...]

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Just made first call via Google Talk and it works fine and as it’s not peer to peer it looks like I’ll be able to use it inside IBM…cool.

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I bought a heart rate monitor yesterday to help with the cycling. I’ve programmed it with the heart rate zone I want to be in and it has alarms to beep if you go above or below that zone.

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One of Ron’s friends gave him this snippet of information;“The Indian government has put a hold on Huawei Technologies‘
business in India following an analysis showing that the country’s
strategic telecommunications network could be compromised by Huawei’s
presence. Of particular concern are Huawei’s ties to the Chinese
government and military, the report says. Huawei, which has operated in
India since [...]

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I’ve been using Brett’s GTD template within Lotus Notes to track all the things I have to do and I’m pretty pleased so far. On Brett’s site it mentions mNotes and it working with the GTD template but it doesn’t provide exactly how to get the DB onto my SPV C500. So I dropped Commontime [...]

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No Need to Click Here - I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster

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16
August 2005
Dear ,
I am writing to you today with good news for
UK
businesses. Today Cable
& Wireless has announced our acquisition of Energis, and I wanted to
highlight a couple of the benefits that this joining of two of the strongest
communication providers in the
UK
can bring you. The deal is
subject to regulatory approval by the Office [...]

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What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi
access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of
targeting advertising to a user’s precise location? The gatekeeper of
the world’s information could become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. [...]

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Account and $ numbers
Affirmations
Basic personal numbers (self and family members)
Birthdays
Checklists
Gifts
Ideas I don’t know what to do with, now that I’ve had them…
Jokes
Might wanna buy…
Might wanna do when…
Might wanna do with…
Previous addresses and employers
Quotes
Restaurants
Style or product numbers I may need when I’m buying things
Tips/Shortcuts
Vacation things to do

read all about the lists here…I’m off to start writing [...]

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C&W wins Energis takeover battle

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I didn’t see this coming but Thus have put an offer in for Energis.

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Cable & Wireless (C&W) is today expected to confirm its
takeover of UK IT services and telecoms solutions provider Energis,
after holding firm against a number of investors looking to push up its
GBP830 million offer. Citing sources close to the deal, the Financial
Times says C&W is ‘optimistic’ of having its bid accepted today
following its refusal to increase [...]

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Cisco, who’s been gobbling up companies in the last
couple of years (namely Linksys and more recently
KiSS), has expressed serious interest in the
acquisition and merging with a wireless infrastructure company—specifically everyone’s favorite Nordic handset
manufacturer, Nokia.
Engadget had the story, I’m surprised I didn’t pick it up at the usual telco blogs that I read. Anyway, that [...]

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