Rob’s Digital Life

This story caught my eye this morning "MTC denies PM murder probe"
Executives at Kuwait cellco Mobile Telecommunication Company (MTC) have
moved quickly to dismiss reports claiming that employees of its
Lebanese business were involved in the assassination of former Lebanese
Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri. Earlier this week local media reported
that a number of staff had been detained following [...]

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What would you prefer to do: hire a plumber from the Yellow Pages that you have no idea about, or hire a plumber through Ebay after reading reviews on the plumbers work? Integrating a search function into the Skype client for businesses suddenly gives the Skype user a Yellow Pages with reviews of businesses and [...]

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According to Total Telecom, NTT is looking at a purchase within the UK and using it as a spring board into Europe. Now we start wondering who that could be.

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Scoble get’s nudged into looking at Orb following his comments on Slingbox. I’m sure I’ve mentioned or at least spotted Orb before.

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Tipmonkies has a roundup of the online calendar tools. I’m still looking for one and I’ll give these a quick look.

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Interesting peice of news. IBM isn’t doing it to get staff for it’s self but to connect IBM qualified people from specific universities with IBM and it’s business partners.

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it’s a bit off topic but tough. I’ve clocked up 140K on my bike this week and there’s still a day left in the week.

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lifehacker has just pointed out that wikipedia has a great break down of the Internet protocol suite.

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IDT has told the Carriers world conference that there’s no future in Voice. Finally a carrier admits it.[via]

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But IBM’s PC business is now owned by Lenovo, the Chinese PC producer, which has now introduced a new shade to the Thinkpad range with the launch of a Z-Series laptop that comes both in a “classic black” case and with a “special-edition” brushed titanium cover. [via]
The above article goes on to say this is [...]

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"Communications in the UK is an ultra competitive market and that level
of competition will continue to drive continual downward pressure on
prices," says Paul Reynolds, chief exec of BT Wholesale. [via The Register]
The UK market it extremely fierce, but we’re seeing some consolidation such as C&W and Energis and I’m sure we’ll see a few more [...]

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It looks like it’s only days away now before Google beta’s it’s wifi service

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Give someone a PC (or a mac) in your company..make (yes make)them read this…E-Mail Etiquette

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The newest beta version of internet telephony app Skype now includes call forwarding to one or more landlines.
This means power Skype users can make Skype their permanent number
which rings their home phone, mobile phone, office phone OR all three.
Skype for Windows 1.4 is still beta, but is available for download. [via lifehacker]
Skype charges you for [...]

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If you choose to use Google Secure Access, your internet traffic will
be encrypted and sent through Google’s servers to the Internet. The
data that is received will then be encrypted and sent back through our
servers to your computer. [via lifehacker]
This is another amazing data mining product. Not only will Google now see all your searches and [...]

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