Monthly Archives: December 2005

IBM set to snap up network management vendor

A tip off from a friend made me check my Google alerts this morning to find this; The company said it planned to add Micromuse’s technology to its line-up of Tivoli management software to help companies better manage services such … Continue reading

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Best Laptop 2005

Michael Gartenberg thinks the best laptop of the year is the Lenovo X41…bummer I have the X40. Technorati Tags: IBM Thinkpad X40 X41

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In the material world

Google’s spaces looks pretty interesting. I wonder if they are offering free wireless access around the space? any one know?? The post is right, there are so many people waisting the down time at airports. Next time I’m in Heathrow … Continue reading

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Apple “sold out” of 1GB iPod shuffle till January

The $129 iPod is "Sold out for holiday," Apple said in a message on its online store. New stock of the original flash-based iPod is not expected until "mid-January." Now that I’ve got my Video, I’ve got a 1gb Shuffle … Continue reading

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Ericsson & outsourcing

Ericsson is doing pretty well right now and they are doing something that is pretty interesting, running Telco’s networks for them. [via] Mr Svanberg estimates that 3 to 4 per cent of the world’s mobile networks are managed by a … Continue reading

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Worldwide Telecom Industry Growth Expected in 2006

According to a new study titled The 2006 Telecom Industry Review: An Anthology of Market Facts and Forecasts and conducted by research firm Insight Research, the global telecom industry revenue will reach $1.2 trillion by the end of next year, … Continue reading

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Orange not getting the N90

I was in the Orange store in Chester last week ending having a look at the current range of Orange Mobiles when I asked when the Nokia N90 would be coming to Orange. The Phone Trainer, that’s what they call … Continue reading

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Holiday

Finished work yesterday for just over two weeks. Horah. I had 18 days let so I needed to use a few up.

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Unilever signs BTO deal with IBM

IBM Enters Procurement Services Transformation Initiative Agreement With Unilever North America [via] Telecoms is in there too I believe. We’ll help Unilever source it’s Telecoms better. I can see Alliance issues on the horizon. Technorati Tags: IBM, Unilever

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AT&T strikes new deal with 11k workers

US telco AT&T Inc. looks to have headed off strike action by more than 11,000 workers following a "tentative agreement" with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) It was only last month … Continue reading

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Langans

It’s all a bit quiet lately, the only real news being Branson turning NTL down. I’m off to London tomorrow, I have a lunch time meeting  at Langans

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IBM global outsourcing revenues rise

IBM retained its number-one position in the outsourcing market during 2004. [via] Technorati Tags: IBM

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TechCrunch

This is such a great blog. TechCrunch Technorati Tags: TechCrunch, web2.0

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Yahoo.icio.us? – Yahoo Acquires Del.icio.us

del.icio.us is part of the Yahoo! family First Flickr now del.icio.us. I think Yahoo now has a greater stable of value add sites and a better view of the future than Google Technorati Tags: yahoo, del.icio.us

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Clipmarks

I currently use EverNote on my thinkpad as a catch all for stuff that I’ll need for later. It can capture web pages along with pretty much things. But there’s a downside it’s only on my thinkpad. Now if clipmarks … Continue reading

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