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Entries from November 2006

Copenhagen

November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve taken a break from my paternity leave and travelled to Copenhagen for a meeting with our Alliance Partner.
Paternity leave is going fine btw.

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Skype goes mobile, as a native service on 3 Mobiles

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Free phone calls to Skype users. Free instant messaging to your buddies. Unlimited search and internet surfing. Your TV on the move. Your PC on your mobile. Your life where you go.
Skype, Orb, SlingMedia, MSN etc all for free..this looks like an unlimited data package but walled in with 3’s preferred suppliers. I guess it’s [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Telecom · life

Vodafone indicates interest in buying 3

November 16th, 2006 · No Comments

More speculation on the sale of 3, this time Voodoo phone might be a suitor. [via]
Technorati Tags: Vodafone, 3, telecom

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EasyMobile UK shuts down

November 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Not really a shame but not great news for UK consumer choice. I recalled seeing Stelios about a year back at the Telco awards having a pop at all the telco’s in the room telling them he was coming to eat thier lunch. I guess it’s one of two things, A, it’s tough in the [...]

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TalkPlus demo : Call to echo123 from a mobile without a Skype client

November 14th, 2006 · No Comments

This is great news for people wanting to contact people on Skype. Not so hot news for Skype as it’ll take a chunk out of the Skype-In revenue. [via]
Technorati Tags: Skype, TalkPlus, Skype-In

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A new member of the Evans Family

November 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Caroline was born at 5.03am today the 12th of November. 8lb 4oz. all doing fine.

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An opportunity to change the Telco landscape?

November 10th, 2006 · No Comments

This is the last question in the Telco 2.0 survey and the one I found most thought provoking.
 Imagine you had the opportunity to change the Telco landscape (get out the magic wand). What would you change and why?
I put down three areas that I think need focus.
1. Provide a Naked DSL service. Who needs [...]

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Telco 2.0 Survey

November 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Martin puts on his best Sopranos accent and suggest you complete the Telco2.0 survey. I have.

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Boxbe: Get a Cut of Your Email Spam

November 10th, 2006 · 1 Comment

could this be the way to handle spam? [via]
Technorati Tags: Spam, Boxbe

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Business travel tips - readers’ picks

November 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Make paper or digital back-ups of your diary, address book, passport details, credit card details etc, and leave the backups with a trusted colleague or family member at home. — David Bowler, archaeologist
these handfull of tips are very basic stuff..they’re obviously saving the best ones for the book. [via]

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‘Rip-off’ hotel wi-fi slammed

November 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Good Hotel Guide sticks the boot in…
I think that they’ll have to put a little more than a boot in to fix this issue. It is just a huge rip off. Luckily I have a 3G data card, a Openzone account, a Boingo account and now a FON id which covers most bases. [via]
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NTL:Telewest to become Virgin Media

November 8th, 2006 · No Comments

my guess of Virgin:Connect was wrong…Virgin Media??? [via]
Technorati Tags: Virgin, Media, NTL, Telewest

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Gmail app

November 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Well the Gmail app launched last week to huge buzz, but it took me ages of playing around to get it to work. In the end changing my Gmail settings to English [US] from English[UK]..madness, got it to work.
Technorati Tags: Gmail

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BT to upgrade Chester’s ADSL infrastructure.

November 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment

wahoo..BT has chosen Chester as one of it’s first City’s to be upgraded to new ADSL 2+ infrastructure. This was an article in our local free rag. Not sure if our routers go beyond 8mb’s, but I can only get 2mb’s right now so an upgrade is sure welcome!
Technorati Tags: ADSL, BT, Chester

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Skype 3.0 beta is out

November 8th, 2006 · No Comments

[Via]

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