Rob’s Digital Life

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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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.

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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, 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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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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Scobleizer visit’s Cardiff which is my home town and says "Cardiff is a delightful town"

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VPLS.org An Executive Overview of VPLS
A great overview of VPLS
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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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"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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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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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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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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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.
Technorati Tags: Telecom, FTTP, DSL

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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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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.
Technorati Tags: IBM, IP

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