Monthly Archives: October 2006

Sony Mylo — First Impressions

First impressions of the Sony Mylo are starting to appear, this one over at Skype Journal says the device may well do for the connected generation of the 2000′s what the walkman did in the eighties. [via] Technorati Tags: Sony, … Continue reading

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Nokia N70 is #1

The Nokia N70 is the number 1 camera phone on Flicker according to the stats Big Huge Labs. [via] I’ve had the phone for several months now and I don’t think it’s as bad as I first thought. The first … Continue reading

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FON, it’s so small

Lifeblog Originally uploaded by Rob Evans. I installed the FON router last night, what surprised me most was how small it is. It’s all up and working now. Technorati Tags: FON, Wireless, Router

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Carphone ‘could lose Orange too’

It’s been a bad week for CPW, Vodafone announced that they had done a deal with Phones4U and now it looks like Orange may also pull out of CPW. I can see why Orange intend may pull out as Orange … Continue reading

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IBM transfers top buyer to China

IBM has moved one of its top executives to China, the first time that the computer firm has posted a division headquarters outside the US. this was something we were told internally a while back and I’m surprised the BBC … Continue reading

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Could a 30-in. monitor help you do your job faster?

oh yes..now where’s my link to reqcat? [via]

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Notes version 7.0.2 adds support for RSS

I mentioned to someone at work ages ago, Russ probably that it’d be cool if you could have RSS feeds of database’s then you could see and check out the updates. I’m guessing that this just means that Notes will … Continue reading

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DOC ROB’S SHARED ITEMS

Following Scobles foot steps…Google Readers Shared feed

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NextGen TV and BlinkX

I recevied an invite this morning for NextGen TV 2006, 20-22 November, The Royal Garden Hotel, London, via IBM’s post at home service. One of the “big players” listed is Suranga Chandratillake. Suranga will discuss how personalised media is changing … Continue reading

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FON Router has turned up

My FON router has turned up this morning, the package came from Barcelona. They must be losing a considerable amount of money on each sale, £12 for a router and posting from Spain. Anyway, I’ll be setting it up this … Continue reading

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Google: Dark Fiber Story Not So Dark

“We have one peering point in San Francisco and some journalists say we’re trying to take over the world,” Sacca says. “That’s the thing that a lot of journalists don’t get,” he says, “is that one peering point does not … Continue reading

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Will Google gobble Level 3?

I picked this up on this mornings check of Techmeme. Om, and Broadband reports also has the story. This could have some serious implications for the telco industry. Level3 is a carriers carrier , providing bandwidth to other carriers. Maybe … Continue reading

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Ten things I hate about you

James must have written blog post of the month with this post with ten things that are wrong with the phone companies today. Technorati Tags: James, Enck, Telecom

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Carphone: New Depths of Incompetence

TeleBullis has a horror story with Talk Talk Broadband. This joins the now ever growing list of examples of the services provided by Carphone Warehouse [via] Technorati Tags: Talk, Carphone, warehouse, TeleBullis

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no other news today

Google has bought YouTube and according to Techmeme there really isn’t much else in terms on news today [via] Technorati Tags: Google, YouTube

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