Monthly Archives: April 2007

OBS doing well in the UK

Back on April 2nd Orange Business Services “announced a phenomenal 55% increase in the number of clients and a 100% increase in revenue and staff of its UK operation.” From Bob’s guide

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Telco spending on kit in 2007

The oringal title of this post [here] has “Telco equipment spedning for 2007 to be low” That’s a slightly misleading title as the spending for 2007 will be the highest since 2002 the article goes on to say. Anyway, an … Continue reading

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The Trouble with Home Networking

David Pogue has some fun with his wireless router testing. One of the most frequent requests I get from friends and family is, can you help me set up my home network. Over the last two weeks, I’ve helped my … Continue reading

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Vonage CEO quits

It’s not good news when you’re CEO quits. He’s either fallen on his sword or leaving a sinking ship..you can make your mind up as to which one. I wonder how many other Telco’s encouraged Verizon to sue over the … Continue reading

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Interesting trip next week

I’m not sure what my carbon off set should be for this trip.. Manchester to Copenhagen, Copenhagen to Vienna, Vienna to BRNO (Czech rep), BRNO back to Vienna, Vienna to Prague, Prague to Manchester. A more environmentally respectful trip by … Continue reading

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3UK has low 3G Data utilisation

This is a very long post, but worth the read to understand Martin’s dig at at 3 in the UK right at the end. the moral of the story is – if you disagree with the Telco2.0 team don’t do … Continue reading

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Nokia N95: Missing shortcut

I  can’t stop this now…the much hyped N95 has a software glitch too. Darla let’s us know. Technorati Tags: Nokia, N95

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life on mars

like every other person in the UK we’re glued to BBC1 for the final episode of life on mars!

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Gizmodo: N95 is Fisher price

Following on from my other comments on the long awaited Nokia N95, Gizomodo has a long review of the device and describes the device as feeling a bit Fisher price. By that I assume they mean a little bit cheap … Continue reading

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Cisco to pursue an aggressive M&A Strategy

Cisco Vice-President Ned Hooper will pursue an aggressive M&A strategy that will target bigger fish than the networking champ is used to catching I don’t think that’s news, I thought Cisco always had an aggressive M&A strategy, they bought anything … Continue reading

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Summer is here (or was yesterday)

The temperature reached a giddy 70 degrees Celsius yesterday here in Chester so today I picked up a pair of chocolate brown, two strap, Birkenstocks (model Arizona to be precise) PS. I won’t be wearing mine with socks. Technorati Tags: … Continue reading

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Orange UK now has the N95 for sale

The uk web site of Orange now has the Nokia N95 as an option to buy at £89.99 on pay monthly contracts (£35pm +). They aren’t pulling any punches either, it clearly states standby time 1.0 day. Standby time of … Continue reading

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Jaiku (again)

It’s a downer that jaiku is still only S60 compatible. The functionality of the app sounds amazing…I might pull out the N70 blow the dust off and put up with the slow OS just to have a play with it. … Continue reading

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SPV M3100 WM6

I flashed my M3100 the other day to a new radio ROM and WM6 Black 2.0. Check out the XDA Dev forums if you want to find out more. Flashing a device is always fun, the risk of having a … Continue reading

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N95 reviews aren’t too hot.

Nokia’s new do it all phone, the N95, is hitting the shops and the reviews aren’t great. I had heard the battery was poor with only a day of juice in it and Om’s review backs that up. After my fun(!) … Continue reading

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