Rob’s Digital Life

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Originally uploaded by Rob Evans.

what made me take this photo was the targeting of the local Latvian and Polish community so directly. Did they look at the call logs from this phone and decide to target those people (i doubt it).
The poor old letter box next to it adds an interesting dimension to the photo, [...]

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Facebook is a site that it’s taken me a while to warm too. I took a look at it a while back and saw it just as another homepage application. As a result I didn’t see any value in investing my (limited these days) time in the site.
Since then Facebook as changed considerably and the [...]

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Lightreading has a post on news that Vodafone have been looking at Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ – message board) saw its share price leap more than 12 percent in pre-market trading today following a report on a Financial TimesVodafone Group plc (NYSE: VOD – message board) has been considering a takeover bid [...]

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Lightreading has a post on the fact that BT has launched a credit card and is encouraging it’s staff to take up the offer. The savings offered are pretty poor and it’s just an example of how affective MBNA have been in selling it’s services to anyone who’ll listen. The lightreading post takes the news [...]

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If you haven’t seen this on Scoble’s site yet then it’s worth a watch. Jaiku is pretty cool.
Technorati Tags: Jaiku, Scoble

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Once again Telebusillis has a great story on what Apple is upto here in Europe with the iPhone. Interesting reading, but the clear loser here is Vodafone.
O2 in the UK, T-Mobile in Germany and Orange in France

If you know your onions in this field you’ll know that Orange is owned by France Telecom (iPhone in [...]

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Telebusillis picks up on an interesting story of the Private Equity company looking to buy TDC (Denmark’s National Carrier). The post refers to a case study looking into the takeover and asks the questions;
Supporters of private equity buyouts claim they introduce a longer term planning horizon for firms with public shareholders who have demanded that [...]

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I’ve become hooked on Jaiku and taking part in the community online there. As a result I’ve not been reading all of my feeds. I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but taking part in Jaiku is like a conversation than just reading feeds.
Anyway, the feeds or blogs that I [...]

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Dave has a network problem as he’s just bought a second DSL line. I’ve also got two DSL lines but haven’t bothered to connect the two together. I did think about it, running two IP networks on the same LAN and assigning default routes manually. But the hassle wasn’t worth it. It just means the [...]

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