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Entries from March 2007

US Government leaves out SPRINT

March 30th, 2007 · No Comments

The (US) government yesterday awarded AT&T, Qwest Communications International and Verizon the largest telecommunications contract in history, leaving Sprint Nextel out of a deal worth up to $48 billion over the next 10 years.

Not good news for SPRINT then. 

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Tags: Telecom

Flickr

March 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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Tags: life

Al-Queda plot to bring down UK internet

March 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

SCOTLAND YARD has uncovered evidence that Al-Qaeda has been plotting to bring down the internet in Britain, causing chaos to business and the London Stock Exchange.
In a series of raids, detectives have recovered computer files revealing that terrorist suspects had targeted a high-security internet “hub” in London.
The facility, in Docklands, houses the channel through which [...]

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Tags: Telecom · life

Cell phone network used as backhaul for WiFi

March 7th, 2007 · No Comments

I can’t decide whether this is a great idea or a really really dumb idea. I’m leaning toward the latter right now.
Why can’t you just stick the 3G card into the Laptop directly and save your self $400 bucks? [via]
Technorati Tags: WiFi, 3G, Mobile

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Tags: Mobile · Telecom · life

Charlie Brooker, what a sucker

March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

The trouble started the afternoon someone from Orange rang me up to say, “Hey, valued customer - do you want a free phone?” At first I wasn’t interested, but he went on and on about how popular and great the Samsung E900 was, then promised me free texts at weekends for life if I said [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Web

Scoble exodus

March 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Looks like I’m not the only one to stop reading Scoble all the time.

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Tags: life

Essential Drucker

March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

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Originally uploaded by Rob Evans.

my current reading, the essential drucker, not the greatest photo, but I was testing out Shozu on my SPV M3100.

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Tags: life

Frankfurt

March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Frankfurt

Originally uploaded by Rob Evans.

This was nuts, eating in the resturant of the Radisson SAS in Frnakfurt, I asked for the Fillet steak (I didn’t know we were going to a steak house the next night!!) with jacket potato and sour cream dressing.
The potato came in foil as you can see in the picture and [...]

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Tags: life

The Frankfurt Steak House

March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

During my stay in Frankfurt we made a trip to ‘the Steak House’. It’s not a place to go if you’re a veggie or if you like well done steaks. I asked for mine to be cooked ‘medium to well done’ only to be told “medium will do”.
Huge steaks, huge portions,the place was packed for a Wednesday [...]

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Tags: Travel · life

Links that don’t link

March 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

..the availability of easy-to-use and simply elegant web-based IM services such as Meebo. Why is that?

Try the link in the text above taken from GigaOm. It doesn’t go to Meebo like you think it would it goes to more posts about Meebo.
I hate this, it drives me nuts.
Yes have links to your other posts on [...]

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Tags: Web · life

Top Talent

March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

IBM in the UK is running a Top Talent program for future leaders for 100 people out of the 3000 in the UK Global Technology Services business. Basically a Talent management program for the top 3% of it’s employees in the UK and I made the list.
There had been Top talent programs in the past but nothing really [...]

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Tags: IBM · life