Monthly Archives: October 2005

Telenor bought Vodafone Sweden

back on the 8th of August I posted about this rumour. Well, Telenor has gone and done it and bought Vodafone Sweden. My log’s show loads of hit’s from people searching on this subject today a lot more than usual. … Continue reading

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Telefonica Agrees to Purchase O2 for $31.5 Billion

Telefonica SA, Spain’s biggest telephone company, agreed to buy U.K. mobile-phone operator O2 Plc for 17.7 billion pounds ($31.5 billion) in the largest acquisition in the European phone industry in five years. Buying O2 will give Telefonica 25 million customers … Continue reading

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inbox after a vacation

Having just come back from a four day trip to southern spain (28 degress…hmm) I know what this post is getting at, how to clean out your red inbox. My big tip here is to start with the most recent … Continue reading

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cricket test

England start their first test in Pakistan tomorrow. Great news cricket on the radio again. Technorati Tags: cricket

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podcast sync issues

I’ve been thinking that something was wrong with either iTunes or my iPod recently as I haven’t been able to get the podcasts that iTunes downloads to sync across to my shuffle. Well it turns out you can’t just sync … Continue reading

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Nortell Sells it’s HQ

Another sad day for nortel [via]

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SBC got a good deal in AT&T

In the post Ma Bell rides again, Om talks about how SBC got a real bargain in the price they paid for AT&T. There are two big culture differences that could create some interesting developments. SBC will have the mentality … Continue reading

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Back

Back from 4 days in Spain. A nice 28 degees C. BMIBaby was good and no problems. I saw the news that Ericsson was going to buy Marconi in a bar and was a bit surprised as I thought that … Continue reading

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Holiday

No posts for a few days off to Spain for some winter sun. Technorati Tags: Travel

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@googlemail.com in the UK

It appears Google is losing a fight in the UK for the Gmail brand. Hence it’s changing the domain it’ll issue in the UK to @googlemail.com. That’s not as catchy as @gmail.com. All old users will not change. Technorati Tags: … Continue reading

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Email overload

Two reasons for this post. One, an awful lot of people complained about the volume of emails we receive these days. And secondly to test Technorati tags Technorati Tags: GTD

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Level 3 Communications posts loss for 3Q

The company’s net loss grew to $204 million, or 29 cents per share, from $171 million, or 25 cents, a year ago. On average, analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were looking for a loss of 31 cents per share. Revenue … Continue reading

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BSkyB to Buy Easynet

Well the forecasters where right, sky is going after Easynet.

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Organise business cards with flickr

what a great idea, take a pic of them and upload to flickr available anywhere..cool.

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Presentations

I’ve got two presentations to give over the next three days to the European network teams. So I’m busy writing the material today and reading the tips of giving great presentations such as this and this. My own tips are, … Continue reading

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