Rob’s Digital Life

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.
Technorati Tags: Telecom, Mobile

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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 in the
U.K., Germany and Ireland, bringing the total count to more than
165 million. [via]
This news came out about [...]

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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 emails and work backwards. That way you can deal with the latest version of a hideous [...]

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

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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 them across with a shuffle, you have to manually move them across. That sucks. Luckily [...]

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Another sad day for nortel [via]

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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 of a small regional bell, where as AT&T is a global business with a global [...]

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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 H company was going to pick them up. Maybe they didn’t need the brand after all.
Not [...]

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

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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: gmail,, google

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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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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 declined 5 percent to $799 million from $840 million last year,
beating analysts’ consensus target of $778.6 million. Communications
revenue [...]

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

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

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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, don’t rush through the presentation, take your time. Don’t put all the information into the slides, [...]

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