Rob’s Digital Life

The C600 is a fantastic phone. There, I said it. It’s as close to perfect as any device has got for me to date.
It has it’s flaws, but I agree with Paul, it’s the best phone I’ve ever had.
Technorati Tags: SPV, C600, MoDaCo, HTC, WM5, Tornado

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Shares in Cable & Wireless dropped 10 per cent yesterday as it warned on profits and announced that Francesco Caio, its chief executive, was to leave in the midst of a reorganisation.
News about the reorganisation, which will see the company divided into two units, one UK and one international, is set to fan the flames [...]

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Lenovo is running a series of ads asking you to vote for the thinkpad you prefer, Classic Black or Titanium.
It appears Titanium is winning the vote everywhere except Africa.
BTW I voted Titanium, I’ve had way too many black laptops now.
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Russ chips in now too, he’s sitting on the fence
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Scoble’s adding to the debate on bringing computing to the poor.
They’d rather have a cell phone than a big computer
I’m going to put my sceptics hat on here, but is this debate really about bringing computing to the poor or enabling a new market. We know there are 1 billion PC’s but there are [...]

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“The high-rise towers of Reynholm Industries are full of go-getters, success stories, and winners… apart from in the basement. While their beautiful colleagues work in fantastic surroundings, Jen, Roy and Moss lurk below ground, scorned and mocked by their co-workers as geeky losers, doomed never to make it back into normal society“
So says the introduction [...]

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Eurostar,
originally uploaded by Rob Evans.
I took this travelling on the Eurostar last Thursday evening to Paris. It wasn’t exactly what I’d invisaged. It was like a step back into the seventies.
On the plus side it was quick and you are able to work for the entire two and a half hour journey time.

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Slacker Manager is impressed with FolderShare.
Wow. I just tried out FolderShare this evening and it rocks. ROCKS! I don’t know where I’ve been that I hadn’t heard of this before, but it is super useful (and free!)
I guess it may work for people that aren’t familiar with FTP. It’s a shame it doesn’t use bittorrent [...]

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IBM’s intranet — known inside the company as the “w3 On Demand Workplace,” — has been selected as one of “The Year’s 10 Best Intranets” by the Nielsen Norman Group, a user experience research firm that advises companies on human-centered product and service design. IBM is the only information technology company recognized in this [...]

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VODAFONE is considering a large technology-outsourcing deal that could save the mobile-phone company £300m a year. According to industry sources, IBM is the favourite to win a contract that could take in billing, software development and customer-relationship management.

I know we’re competing for this, can’t say anymore than that (ie. what you already know) [via]
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This was interesting all Managers where invited to two hotels, one in London and one in Manchester for a Pensions meeting. Somebody tipped the press off and when the managers turned up, there was press everywhere.
Computer giant IBM is continuing to hold talks with employees about changes to its UK pension scheme.
The announcement comes [...]

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Sprint Nextel appears to be bringing IT workers back in-house from IBM as part of a re-evaluation of the company’s outsourcing strategy by its new CIO.
Sprint is one of IBM’s many partners, so that’s interesting news.
Technorati Tags: Sprint, Nextel, IBM, insourcing

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Apologies for all the Travel updates, but I’ve decided this blog should be just as much use for me as you. SoI’ve been updating all the recent hotels etc and the associatted tags so that I can find the good, bad and ugly hotels in the future.

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Nice Hotel in the centre of Dublin, 10 mins walk from Temple bar. Stay at the front of the Hotel, ‘cos there’s a drunk man that comes and shouts at the traffic from 1am till 5am.

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Simply awfull..straight out of the seventies.

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