Rob’s Digital Life

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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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 interesting post nonetheless.

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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 younger brother with his wireless network, a pal with his wireless network so that he can [...]

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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 patents used by Vonage..hmm.
I’ve always thought of Vonage as a service that you can get [...]

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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 train to London tomorrow.
Technorati Tags: Carbon, Footprint, Environment

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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 it in public.

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

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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 and plastic almost toy like. So the device has poor battery and feels like a toy, [...]

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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 that moved. Anyway Hooper (39!) is going to have his work cut out finding the big [...]

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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: Birkenstock

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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 1.0 day takes me back to the days of my Nokia 2140 which managed 18 [...]

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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.
Anybody know if there’s going to be a WM5/6 version of Jaiku out there already (I’ll [...]

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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 £200 paper weight allways means that you read the instructions.
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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(!) with an N70 I’m going to be staying away from Nokia for a while.
Darla is also [...]

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