Monthly Archives: September 2005

Putin Mulling Secret Telecoms Net

The [Russian] government may spend up to $500 million to set up an entirely new telecoms network to appease security services opposing the privatization of state holding company Svyazinvest, business daily Kommersant said Wednesday [via The Moscow Times] haven’t they … Continue reading

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Out of Flood, IBM Was Born

you learn something new every day… Over the next decade, Watson focused C-T-R on information processing and in 1924 renamed it the ambitious-sounding International Business Machines. During the boom of the late 1920s, IBM was essentially like Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: … Continue reading

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Slingbox

I was just reading that Scoble has just set up his Slingbox. This looks realy cool and if you have a PVR then it’s even cooler. Being able to either watch TV in another room or your recorded programes anywhere … Continue reading

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Google’s core busines

I just read that Google’s core business isn’t search engines, "it brokers connections between people and corporations for profit". I was wondering if the the guy’s that set it up had that in mind when they started out, If they … Continue reading

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eBay buys Skype

There’s been loads of blog posts on why eBay has bought Skype, but it’s becoming clear that they’ve done it to make selling easier, they are "commodotize their complements". eBay did it with PayPal and have made a success of … Continue reading

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BT launches metro Ethernet service

Businesses using BT EVLAN will have secure any-to-any Ethernet connectivity between multiple sites in a single metro area thereby avoiding the need to build expensive and inflexible networks. With access speeds from 10, 100 and 1000Mbit/s, it offers companies bandwidth … Continue reading

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Connectivity to Control networks

I’m spending a large amount of my time looking into the aspects of enterprise wide Telecoms management and the issues of interopability. I just stumbled onto this paper "A Technology Roadmap for Enterprise Connectivity to Control Networks" which looks interesting.

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Wireless Cable broadband

Ireland-based Digiweb has started using a Wireless DOCSIS 2.0 technology, that allows consumers to get broadband at 3Mbps download and 512Kbps upload. The company is also bundling free (VoIP) phone number and a phone line with this package that is … Continue reading

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Notes GTD

I’ve dumped MLO as it’s just too cumbersome. It’s great as a project tool but just too big for a simple actions recording and reminding tool. I don’t use outlook so I don’t benefit from any of that functionality. So … Continue reading

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Arlanda Airport

  Arlanda Airport    Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. Went to Stockholm again the end of last week. Just two days.

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Feedburner RSS

TechCrunch has an interesting post on Feedburner and the trouble of switching away your RSS feed. This follows on from some recent news on the DSC about RSS feed theft scams. I moved my RSS feed to Feedburner a few … Continue reading

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eBay buys skype

The Internet auction company eBay has confirmed that it is in negotiations to buy the VoIP operator, Skype Technologies. Earlier, persistent rumours of a US$2.6 billion bid affected eBay’s stock price, pushing it down by more than four per cent. … Continue reading

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Google’s Cerf to help build GoogleNet

Google just announced that Vinton (Vint) Cerf, the longtime technologist who is widely known as a “founding father” of the Internet, as Chief Internet Evangelist. This is their continuing bid to acquire the best brains in the world. Cerf, one … Continue reading

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London Top Internet Hub City

Om has some interesting data on the bandwidth users of the world here. Top Internet Hub City: London, 1.1 Tbps bandwidth, 439 Gbps peak traffic. Top Internet Hub Country: United States, 1.4 Tbps bandwidth, 704 Gbps peak traffic. Top Internet … Continue reading

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Lainey’s Birthday

Lainey’s car Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. It’s lainey’s birthday today..she’s two. So I’m day off and we’re opening loads of presents and off somewhere nice for lunch. That’s lainey playing with her new car.

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