Rob’s Digital Life

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 too. [via]
IBM and Lenovo sold these Sony batteries in systems listed below between February 2005 and [...]

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..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 holding a patent within IBM is celebrated. There’s not a culture of stealing or pirating patents within [...]

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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, Truephone and now Grand Central to name just a few. They are obviously taking advantage of [...]

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Norwich to get free WiFi [via]

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

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…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. This “Value apocalypse” will be the primary premise by which your Utility company will utilize [...]

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

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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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At last Scoble launches his show [via]

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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 big players didn’t come up with this idea first. So hat’s off to Gabe..nice work. [via]
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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 unwire SF with a free slow service and a faster fee-based plan. But the team [...]

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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 is a happy slapping video caused by the dodgy content I write here.
Anyway..If it’s you searching [...]

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Big post on IMS Insider via Telco2.0

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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 in it. [via]
Technorati Tags: Cisco Dell IBM

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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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