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Entries from February 2006

Life as a tech-nomad

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Frequent business travellers - this column is for you. Peter Cochrane shares the techniques and technologies that keep him productive during his plentiful time on planes, trains and automobiles
This is a fantastic piece from Peter Cochrane, it covers all aspects of his fine tuned Digital Life..an amazing read.
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Name your 1200 pound gorilla

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments

a “Titanium Class mega-uber value” reader writes in James’ blog with the following view of IBM’s impending impact on VoIP.
Simply put, IBM is a force for change in the corporate world. When IBM comes out in favour of VoIP particular as it rolls out its VoIP platform, particularly through the IBM Global Services arm, the [...]

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Tags: Telecom · life

Only Suckers will buy Vonage stock.

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Martin points out the wholes in Vonage’s business model (again). He’s right (again) only suckers would go any where near it.
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Network Neutrality: The PR blitz is underway

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments

The network neutrality war is just starting to heat up. A campaign to make new fees for existing Internet services palatable is underway. At stake is the ability of the Internet to scale from the edges or a surrender and return to a telco-dominated network like the one that collapsed under open competition in the [...]

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Tags: Telecom · life

Google Calendar

February 27th, 2006 · No Comments

As many readers are aware, I’m still on the hunt for the ideal online calendar, well Google is now looking at this. [via]

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Tags: Web · life

Vodafone’s Greek Tragedy

February 27th, 2006 · No Comments

The Observer had an interesting story yesterday about the spy case that’s going on in Greece right now. Vodafone, according to the story, bugged the phones of more than 100 Greek senior officials including thier Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis. Vodafone Greece’s decision to withhold documents belonging to Costas Tslikides, the networks planning manager who commited [...]

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Tags: Telecom · life

AT&T to splash $8.5bn

February 27th, 2006 · No Comments

AT&T announced plans to expand its network throughout the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.  The investment will be part of its 2006 CAPEX plan, which the company expects to be between $8 billion and $8.5 billion.  The company’s plans include expanding its remote access points in 150 countries, doubling its [...]

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Microsoft’s Mobile VoIP

February 21st, 2006 · No Comments

DailyWireless has a story on Microsoft’s up and coming VoIP software that will be part of their window’s mobile platform and office product set. It’s obvious MS wants to get into the mobile market and dominate that too. MS is slowly starting to dominate the smartphone OS market and figures it might as well [...]

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Tags: Mobile · life

AllPeers is Coming; Exclusive Screenshots

February 17th, 2006 · No Comments

TechCrunch has some exclusive screen shoots of AllPeers…come on..we can’t wait any longer!!

Technorati Tags: AllPeers, Firefox, TechCrunch

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Tags: Web · life

Cisco in Paris (part II)

February 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Yesterday was a great day, an early flight from Amsterdam down to Paris and a 20 min taxi ride over to the hotel for the meeting. The Cisco team turned out to be the Global team for IBM, so it was great to talk with them about our delivery business in EMEA.  The meeting finished earlier [...]

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Tags: Travel · life

the brrreeeport report

February 14th, 2006 · No Comments

I blame the Scobleizer
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Tags: life

Some Lessons on RSS Ads from Feedburner

February 12th, 2006 · No Comments

The lesson? It appears that the people who visit a site through a search engine or a link are a different bunch than those who subscribe through an RSS feed. The people who go to the site through a browser might be shopping around for a wireless device so they would respond to an ad [...]

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Killer device - HTC Wizard

February 12th, 2006 · No Comments

This device looks like it might well be the device I’ve been waiting for, decent keypad, wireless, WM5, big screen. Looks like an average camera though. I wonder when it’ll hit these shores?
Technorati Tags: HTC, Wizard, WM5,

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Tags: Gadgets · life

Cisco in Paris

February 12th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m in Paris for 5 hours on Wednesday, I fly there from Amsterdam and then fly back to Manchester late in the afternoon.
I’m presenting to Cisco on IBM’s network delivery in Europe at this hotel..

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Hosted GMail Arrives

February 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Rob Hyndman has a great post on what little impact hosted Gmail really has at this point in time. Gmail or ‘Gpim’ has a long way to go before it beats tools such as Outlook and Notes.
Besides I can’t see the point right now, I don’t want to sign everything over to Google. I have [...]

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