Monthly Archives: February 2006

Life as a tech-nomad

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 … Continue reading

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Name your 1200 pound gorilla

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 … Continue reading

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Only Suckers will buy Vonage stock.

Martin points out the wholes in Vonage’s business model (again). He’s right (again) only suckers would go any where near it. Technorati Tags: Vonage, sucker

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Network Neutrality: The PR blitz is underway

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 … Continue reading

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Google Calendar

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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Vodafone’s Greek Tragedy

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 … Continue reading

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AT&T to splash $8.5bn

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 … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Mobile VoIP

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 … Continue reading

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AllPeers is Coming; Exclusive Screenshots

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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Cisco in Paris (part II)

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 … Continue reading

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the brrreeeport report

I blame the Scobleizer Technorati Tags: the-brrreeeport-report

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Some Lessons on RSS Ads from Feedburner

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 … Continue reading

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Killer device – HTC Wizard

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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Cisco in Paris

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.. Technorati Tags: Cisco Paris

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Hosted GMail Arrives

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 … Continue reading

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