Rob’s Digital Life

Hello, this Is Wildfire… how can I help you…
It was a bubble ago, when I was first introduced to Wildfire, a follow-me, find-me telephone service, that tracked me down by serial dialing all my phone numbers: office, home or mobile phone. Its simplicty is what made it more than memorable, and it is a damn [...]

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My last post on the delcine of EasyMobile in Holland has courted a very acidic comment from a peter politakis or nicos manoudakis, but the the same comment has been posted on two other sites [here] and [here]. So obviouslt Peter or Nicos doesn’t like Stelios [...]

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KPN is suing the Dutch state, an 8% shareholder, for unequal treatment. KPN is regulated, whereas cablecos have no open access obligation and are allowed to cross-subsidize.
KPN is obviously not happy with the regulations that the Dutch state puts upon it. When I spoke to them recently they had been working hard outside of the [...]

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In my view this is a pure money play by the dark side, who, if they succeed politically, will catapult us back to a time when they controlled connectivity and information flow. And if it happens in the US, which would be wonderfully ironic as that is the country that created the internet, we might [...]

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Under the managed services agreement, Nortel will become the preferred provider of enterprise telephony for the engine giant’s new global voice network, which will serve 26,500 users in Canada, France, Germany, Norway, the UK and the US. [via]
A nice win for Nortel as they’ve had a few problems recently. RR is owned by BMW, who [...]

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The “new economy” isn’t so new anymore, but companies still struggle to adapt their business models to the Internet age.
Belgacom’s traditional cash cow has become an endangered species. “Clearly, the per-minute voice traffic revenue model will disappear over time,” the CFO says. Just as phone calls can be beamed as packets of data over [...]

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EasyMobile, the discount mobile operator, said on Tuesday it would shut its Dutch operations on August 6 due to a disappointing number of subscribers since its launch in October 2005 [via]
I’ll allways thought Easy<blank> was most successful in the UK, Stellios is a household name in the UK, so I can see how maybe he’d [...]

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Russ kindly reminded me of my recent squatting in Chester’s Starbucks following the lose of my broadband when he read this article.
I’ve just ordered a second ADSL connections so we’ll soon have two ADSL connections..not sure much more of a nerd that make me

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San Francisco based social network Bebo, which recently raised $15 million from Benchmark Capital, rejected a £300 million ($552 million) acquisition offer from British Telecom Group “a few weeks ago”, according to an insider on the transaction [via]
Just picked this up via Techmeme, had seen this coming, but it follows on from Murdochs purchase of [...]

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I’m off to Chicago next week, so I checked the flight times my assistant put in my calendar, so I flipped the city to chicago and checked the calendar and nothing, it was still showing UK times.
I just googled the problem and it looks like the calendar app doens’t flip the times over which is [...]

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I’ve had the N70 back in my hands now since Tuesday and initial impressions are poor. The battery life is astonishingly bad, only one day out of a charge, it’s like going back to my first phone which had an 8 hour battery life.
I intend to write a longer review soon, but the only plus [...]

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Just noticed that my blog archives nor go back to June 03. So last month was the 3rd birthday of my blog.

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That’s me tightening up my shoe laces. The water had a habit of coming over your shoes as the boot got quicker.

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That’s me getting ready for our next tack.

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The photo’s from the Regatta came this morning. All 571 of them are on my Flickr site.

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