Monthly Archives: July 2007

new markets and old

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Rob

30072007051 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 … Continue reading →

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Facebook in the enterprise

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Vodafone looking at Verizon

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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BT launches a credit card

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Jaiku interview

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Rob

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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Apple plays the Euro telco’s for fools (aahh)

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Private Equity Takeover of Telecoms

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Social Cameras

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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another networking puzzle

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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