Monthly Archives: March 2006

Class-Action Suit Expanded Against IBM

Attorneys for plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp. seeking overtime pay announced that the suit has expanded to include state claims in Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New Jersey. IBM seems to be under a little bit … Continue reading

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Desk of the day

Desk of the day Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. Sat in starbucks for a change. Wifi is so cool.

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AT&T: We Own Your Telecom Dollars

If AT&T is allowed to buy BellSouth, the company will have an absolute lock on the telecom market, according to a new study by TNS Telecoms. The firm found that the combined company will control 22% of all consumer telecom … Continue reading

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Deutsche Telekom, Nokia launch T-One hybrid service

Deutsche Telekom and Nokia have announced a new service that will allow customers to use the same handset to access VoIP services at home and cellular services when they’re on the go. The service, T-One, relies on Nokia’s N80 and … Continue reading

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Box it

I just signed up for my free 1GB box [via] Technorati Tags: Box, box.net, Russell, Beattie

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Comms manufacturers follow IBM’s lead in services

Telecoms equipment manufacturers are aiming to replicate IBM Corp’s successful reinvention as a services organization over the last 15 years, in order to offset growing pressure on the profitability of their product lines from Far Eastern suppliers. This is an … Continue reading

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Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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UK airports’ wi-fi flying high

Business travellers should prepare themselves for an extra connectivity boost – BAA has announced it will be rolling out wi-fi access across six of its airports this month. Stanstead airport was the first to go live earlier this week and … Continue reading

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Verizon offers $40bn for Vodafone stake in Verizon Wireless

We new this was coming and there was a strong hint last week. Vodafone has some issues right now that it needs to resolve quickly. Vodafone is having to answer some big question right now. It hasn’t done a lot … Continue reading

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HP, Huawei Ink Deal For Telecom Support Solution

Huawei will integrate HP’s OpenView OSS management software into its T2000, M2000, N2000 and I2000 network management platforms. The agreement specifically covers HP’s OpenView TeMIP fault management software, OpenView Performance Insight, Service Activator and Service Quality manager. Under the agreement, … Continue reading

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Google lands on Mars

Lot’s of stories about google doing a version of Google earth for Mars. This information available to schools etc for free is astounding.  [via] Technorati Tags: Google, Mars

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Canadians saying Comcast is purposely degrading their VoIP

Network Pipeline has a post on allegations from a Vonage forum that Comcast are degrading the VoIP quality on purpose. People speculated that this would happen and that SP’s would simply add jitter to the line to ruin the voice … Continue reading

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C600 WM5 AKU2

I flashed my SPV C600 to the new ROM AKU2 today, which is available here. There’s no real difference to the device if you haven’t got push mail, except that the word Orange appears a bit bigger on the home … Continue reading

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Yet More snow!

You can see the web cam in the centre of Chester (the amphitheatre) here

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Free our Data

The Guardian Technology Section has a very interesting story today, Give us back our crown jewels. I’m sure I’ll come back to this subject again as I think it’s pretty important. So UK Government if you’re reading this then ..free … Continue reading

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