Monthly Archives: September 2006

Lenovo recalls Sony Batteries

Lenovo and IBM Corporation, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and other regulatory agencies, have announced the voluntary recall of certain lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony Corporation. Lenovo has joined Dell etc in recalling Sony batteries now … Continue reading

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IBM is out to destroy patent rights

..frankly, that’s total rubbish. Jim Moore suggests IBM pirates and infringes of patents at will. Not sure if my argument will be a lucid as Dr Moore’s being an IBM serf, (or should I be a Dr IBM Serf), but … Continue reading

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Grand Central is US only

Grand Central is getting lot’s of attention, TechCrunch yesterday, Lifehacker today, but it’s a US centric business at this point in time. There appears to be lot’s of business jumping into small parts of the telco space right now, Jajah, … Continue reading

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Norfolk WiFi mesh “will be UK’s biggest HotZone”

Norwich to get free WiFi [via]

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JP Rangaswami is moving on to be CIO of BT’s services division

Martin has a post on JP’s new role at BT [via]

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The End of Telecom; The Emergence of Utilicom

…a mobile company just gave away the income stream of every fixed-line incumbent Telco on the planet earth for $9 and simultaneously created new mindshare in the market that the essence of value has shifted from one domain to another. … Continue reading

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Pinching the Penny Pinchers

The Slate has a post on idotic examples of penny pinching. I’m surprosed to see Yahoo mentioned. [via]

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IBM Will Put Its Patent Filings Online

IBM is going to put it’s patent filings on the web to cut out some of the disputes [via] Technorati Tags: IBM

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Introducing the ScobleShow

At last Scoble launches his show [via]

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A new kind of advertising

Gabe Rivera has created a new kind of advertising for TechMeme, which he explains here and here. Gabe has worked absolute magic here. This is such a brilliant idea, all due respect to Gabe but I’m surprised one of the … Continue reading

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The Financial Case for SF WiFi

While Mountain View residents have been living under Google’s city-wide wireless for more than a month now, San Francisco is the next (if it happens) city that will go wireless via Google. In partnership with Earthlink, the duo plan to … Continue reading

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Rob Evans fight video ?????

Checking out my stats this morning and this jumped out at me, somebody searching goolgle I pressume with the phrase “Rob Evans fight video” found my site..yikes. I hope they don’t know something I don’t and I’m about to appear … Continue reading

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Will IT vendors displace network equipment suppliers?

Big post on IMS Insider via Telco2.0

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Speaking of PR problems…Cisco traffic jam still causing conversations

It’s not looking too good on the PR front of a Dell and now Cisco right now. Dell is still messed up with spying stories and now Cisco jammed up silicon valley. Sure hope we don’t put our collective feet … Continue reading

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IBM intent on reshaping IT security industry

The Times has an article on IBM’s purchase of ISS and Tom Noonan’s plans – “We think the security market is worth around $20 billion,” Mr Noonan told Times Online. [via]

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