Monthly Archives: July 2006

Wildfire

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 … Continue reading

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Stelios Comment

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 … Continue reading

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KPN is suing the Dutch state

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 … Continue reading

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Peter Cochrane’s Blog: Fat cat telcos are killing the net

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 … Continue reading

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Rolls-Royce engineers $20m VoIP deal

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 … Continue reading

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In with the New

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,” … Continue reading

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EasyMobile shuts Dutch service amid absent callers

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 … Continue reading

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Free WiFi spawns cafe backlash

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 … Continue reading

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Bebo Shuns $550 Million Acquisition Offer

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 … Continue reading

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Nokia N70 misses the mark again

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 … Continue reading

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N70

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 … Continue reading

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3rd birthday

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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don’t lose your shoes

IMG_7398 Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. 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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Winch

IMG_7565 Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. That’s me getting ready for our next tack.

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Regatta

IMG_7934 Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. The photo’s from the Regatta came this morning. All 571 of them are on my Flickr site.

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