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Entries from December 2005

IBM set to snap up network management vendor

December 22nd, 2005 · No Comments

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 as videoconferencing for remote workers or streamed music
for cell phone customers

Great news, we’ve been looking at Micromuse and [...]

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Best Laptop 2005

December 20th, 2005 · No Comments

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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Tags: Gadgets

In the material world

December 19th, 2005 · No Comments

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 I’ll go check out Google spaces, I’ve got a trip to Dublin in January and possibly another [...]

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Tags: Telecom

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

December 19th, 2005 · No Comments

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 lying around, maybe I should whack it on eBay as demand is so high…hmm. [via]
Technorati Tags: iPod, Shuffle, [...]

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Tags: Gadgets

Ericsson & outsourcing

December 19th, 2005 · No Comments

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 third party. According to Ericsson, the
current value of outsourced telecoms services market is $55bn, with
telecom operators spending [...]

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Tags: Telecom

Worldwide Telecom Industry Growth Expected in 2006

December 19th, 2005 · No Comments

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, with continued strong growth in wireless communications
leading the way.

Great news. I think Wireless and RFID is going [...]

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Tags: Telecom

Orange not getting the N90

December 17th, 2005 · 1 Comment

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 the sales people in Orange stores, said that it had failed the Orange product test [...]

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Tags: Mobile

Holiday

December 17th, 2005 · No Comments

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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Tags: Random

Unilever signs BTO deal with IBM

December 12th, 2005 · No Comments

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

December 12th, 2005 · No Comments

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 that SBC Communications completed its $16bn merger with AT&T. Not exactly a great start following the creation of a [...]

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Tags: Telecom

Langans

December 12th, 2005 · No Comments

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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Tags: Travel

IBM global outsourcing revenues rise

December 9th, 2005 · No Comments

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

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TechCrunch

December 9th, 2005 · No Comments

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

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Tags: Web

Yahoo.icio.us? - Yahoo Acquires Del.icio.us

December 9th, 2005 · No Comments

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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Tags: Web

Clipmarks

December 9th, 2005 · No Comments

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 did word doc’s too, then maybe it’d be a winner. [via]
BTW Evernote is great for taking [...]

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Tags: Web