Monthly Archives: September 2005

The Murky side of Telecoms

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 … Continue reading

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Find your plumber on eBay

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 … Continue reading

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NTT eyes up the UK

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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following on from Slingbox is Orb

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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Online calendar

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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IBM unveils online job site

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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new cycling record

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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TCP/IP @ wikipedia

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

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IDT says no future in Voice

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

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Black day for IBM traditionalists

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 … Continue reading

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UK is an ultra competitive market

"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, … Continue reading

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Google plans own WiFi service: Web site

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

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E-Mail Etiquette

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

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Skype call forwarding

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 … Continue reading

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Google Secure Access

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. … Continue reading

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