Monthly Archives: November 2005

Google or IBM to sponsor Man Utd?

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. Technorati Tags: IBM, Google, … Continue reading

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SBC backlash coming

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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Broken Hotspots

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 … Continue reading

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KPN, Oxxio, IBM in wireless energy deal

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 … Continue reading

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N90

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: … Continue reading

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Sobleizer visit’s Cardiff

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

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VPLS

VPLS.org An Executive Overview of VPLS A great overview of VPLS Technorati Tags: VPLS

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IBM employees play with podcasting

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 … Continue reading

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ITU refuses to accept net governance agreement

"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 … Continue reading

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AT&T’s new logo part 2

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

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.   Technorati Tags: AT&T, Telecom

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another King Ed post

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, … Continue reading

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End Game

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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Guide to Telecom ‘05 Hype

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 … Continue reading

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IBM Unveils IMS Offerings

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: … Continue reading

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