The Register follows up a story seen earlier in this weeks printed press of IBM being a possible sponsor of Man utd.
Somehow I can’t see this happening, I think the term we use is vapourware.
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Entries from November 2005
Google or IBM to sponsor Man Utd?
November 30th, 2005 · No Comments
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SBC backlash coming
November 29th, 2005 · No Comments
The site Always On has a post entitled; Don’t Buy DSL From This Man … If You Can Help It.
It looks as if King Ed’s comments have back fired a little.
Tags: Telecom
Broken Hotspots
November 29th, 2005 · No Comments
I’ve been working from home a lot lately, so to break the days up I’ve been taking advantage of my openzone subscription and the roaming agreement between openzone and T-mobile to camp out in my local starbucks, Chester.
Today I decided to try out the other starbucks at the retail park, just for a change of [...]
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KPN, Oxxio, IBM in wireless energy deal
November 29th, 2005 · No Comments
KPN, Oxxio, and IBM said they will work together to provide wireless energy meters that can be read remotely. In a news release Monday, the three companies said that all of
Oxxio’s 570,000 energy customers will be fitted with a digital meter at
home which will automatically transmit information about gas and
electricity consumption to a central computer. [...]
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N90
November 28th, 2005 · 1 Comment
The N90 has it’s own blog, The NSeries Blog
It’s not clear whether it’s actually Nokia behind it. (I don’t think so)
But it’s a clear example of how a product could have a blog to promote it self.
UPDATE: Nokia is behind the site. Andy has left a comment (below).
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Sobleizer visit’s Cardiff
November 28th, 2005 · No Comments
Scobleizer visit’s Cardiff which is my home town and says "Cardiff is a delightful town"
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VPLS
November 24th, 2005 · No Comments
VPLS.org An Executive Overview of VPLS
A great overview of VPLS
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IBM employees play with podcasting
November 24th, 2005 · No Comments
What do you
get when you hand 320,000 employees the tools and corporate podcasting
guidelines to internally publish their audio creations? In IBM Corp.’s
experience, lower phone bills and better, more informal internal
communication.
Lower phone bills are surely a by product, the increased sharing of key information is the most important element of this story in ITWorld.
There are still [...]
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ITU refuses to accept net governance agreement
November 23rd, 2005 · No Comments
"The internet need not be one Net controlled by one centre," he said.
"Regionalisation has already started and I suspect in a few years, the
simile of the internet will be a quite different one."
Is what the ITU secretary-general Yoshio Utsumi said as the IGF summit ended.
And this is what the register said about it.
The statement is [...]
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AT&T’s new logo part 2
November 22nd, 2005 · No Comments
I had a conf call with the AT&T at&t team running a withdrawal project and they were using brand new power point sheets with the new logo already.
They are getting their priorities in order obviously
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AT&T’s new logo
November 21st, 2005 · 3 Comments
Russ has a rather poor opinion of the new AT&T logo…I have to say I don’t like the lower case letters either…oh dear.
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another King Ed post
November 21st, 2005 · No Comments
I first started reading about this over at Telepocalypse, but I heard Adam mention it a few days/weeks back in one of his podcasts. But here’s the full article from Business Week.
The Internet can’t be free in that sense, because we and the cable
companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! (YHOO
) [...]
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End Game
November 20th, 2005 · No Comments
Where does this leave phone companies? Up shit creek. [via]Via Om’s blog I followed the link to the end game post on the daily wireless. I’m sure Martin and James would agree with the thesis.
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Guide to Telecom ‘05 Hype
November 20th, 2005 · No Comments
Some leading CTOs spoke both in panels and interviews with Light Reading
here at Telecom ‘05. For the technologically impaired, here I hope to
spell out what some of these technologies are being promoted to do,
what some service providers think of them, and what they will likely
become [via]
This is a great post by LR. Very interesting reading.
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IBM Unveils IMS Offerings
November 20th, 2005 · No Comments
ARMONK, N.Y. — IBM today announced IMS (Internet Protocol
Multimedia Subsystems) offerings to help telecommunications service
providers transition to Next Generation Networks [via]
Something cool and funky from IBM. Helping the Telco’s catch up in the IP race.
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Tags: Telecom