Rob’s Digital Life

Whiteboard 2
social surfing & snail trail.
Snail trail – a app that logs all the sites you visit and time, moves your site history to the web. so it’s not on just one computer but lots..so it’s for history what delicious is for bookmarks.
Social surfing – this is instant messaging for surfing. you use netmeeting tight [...]

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TeleBusillis picked up on the launch yesterday of Carphone Warehouses new product MyMobileLife.
There was no mention of it on any of the usual web/telco2.0 sites, maybe ‘cos it’s coming out of an already established business as oppossed to a startup and someone hasn’t had to throw millions of dollars of seed funding at it.
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With today’s news of TDC’s earnings from it’s involvement in EasyMobile being only £12.8m and Keith McMahon’s prediction that MVNO’s are going to get squeezed out of the Market, it’s going to be a tough start for NTL/Virgin.
I don’t think the name of the new business has been announced yet, but the new business is [...]

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Guy Kewney has a great post on the rumours that the 3 network is up for sale. I wonder exactly how much of the network is up for sale. The actual 3G peice only and the high street shops I’d imagine. The backhaul peice of 3 is done by Geo and you guessed right Geo [...]

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Ken Camp calls TalkPlus the “show stealer”
Technorati Tags: TalkPlus, ITExpo, Ken, Camp

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So, after yesterday’s comments from Om, TalkPlus lauches it’s complete app. Based on Om’s comments I’m not sure how much of this is real and available today?
If TalkPlus want’s to send me a beta for me to take a look at then fine, I’ll also pass a copy onto the IBM Voice strategy team.
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TalkPlus announced today that they received $5.5m in funding and there was tow reviews; Om’s and MobileCrunch’s.
Here’s a snapshot of Om’s - he gave us a demo of the service, which is essentially a “virtual number” on your mobile phone.
Here’s a snapshot of MobileCrunch’s - TalkPlus, which refers to their advanced suite of telephony [...]

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of course not..but it’ll hit sales of more than 50% of MS products, MS Works, Office, Visio etc etc. [via]
Technorati Tags: Web2.0, Windows, Ajax

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Om has a post on the news that there has been 5 million Skype Mobile downloads. He’s right to point out that there’s a huge difference between download and actual usage. I wonder how many of those downloads were done by people thinking it’d work on thier bog standard mobile.
Anyway, I’ll still stick to my [...]

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You have to look at video conferencing from two angles. The first is its ability to increase someone’s revenue through the sale of new kit and a requirement of extra bandwidth which will result in network upgrades and the sale of network hardware. Which is all fine and admirable, but the second angle is productivity [...]

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I’m sorry but these sort of statements wind me up. It’s as if Europe was a technology backwater 10 years ago. 10 years ago, Europeans didn’t have to download email as we had SMS. We were busy texting each other! 10 years ago I used a service that turned my email into an SMS and [...]

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if you didn’t already know, traditional voice is doomed, here’s 33 reasons as to why.
Technorati Tags: Voice, VoIP, Telecom

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The informed money was allways on T-Mobile to be the first to launch this sort of service. It’s the only Mobile player with a mature wi-fi business. This new innovative product is a way to keep users on it’s networks, either GSM or Wi-Fi. I also don’t see it as a huge jump in technology [...]

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Om has a great post on Level 3’s purchase of Broadwing. But in the post he states the following..
The way this consolidation is shaping up4, the market is going to be left with six majors: Verizon, AT&T, Level 3, Qwest, Global Crossing5 and XO Communications6. All these companies have national networks and NFL city footprints. [...]

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However, IBM’s profits jumped 47% to $2.22 billion (though growth was only 15% if you discount a tax charge), on revenues that grew by 5% to $22.6 billion
Interesting news [via]
Technorati Tags: IBM, Yahoo, Intel

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