Monthly Archives: September 2007

Jajah buttons

Phoneboy picks up on the launch of the Jajah buttons [via]. Jajah has launched their new click-to-call buttons. It’s very similar to many other similar services. Person clicks on a button on your site, enters their phone number into a … Continue reading

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The audience is more intelligent than the presenter

I just present our sourcing wiki to my Senior Vice President and his M2 Managers of Orange Business Services over the phone. I wished that I could have done it in the same room and got to see their reactions. It’s … Continue reading

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New N800 to have GPS

More and more news about the new Nokia N800 is slipping out. Firstly, Wimax  is included and now GPS is included. There may also be some truth in the rumor that the device with have better ‘touch’ interactivity. [via] Technorati … Continue reading

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Apple iBrick announcement

We were all waiting for it and here it is; Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone … Continue reading

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TruPhone to Launch VoIP Client on iPhone

Blognation has the exclusive. This is like a double kick for AT&T, not only is it the hacking of the iPhone which provides the ability to unlock the phone, but it also allows you to use SIP instead and miss … Continue reading

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Highly unlikely: BT to acquire Sprint

Even though this should be filed under “highly unlikely,” it’s interesting to note how investor and analysts are thinking that something needs to be changed inside the US’ number three carrier. Earlier in July, we’ve had similar rumor involving Korean … Continue reading

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Orange get French iPhone deal

In another of those ‘oh what a surprise’ announcements, it’s been revealed that Orange will be marketing the iPhone in France. The announcement was made by France Telecom (Orange’s parent company) Chief Exec Didier Lombard during a conference in Hanoi. … Continue reading

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France Telecom the world’s first major telco to support OpenID.

Orange SA, a subsidiary of France Telecom, announced today at the Digital ID World conference in San Francisco that France Telecom will act as an OpenID server-agent. That means the company will verify the identities of their 40 million users … Continue reading

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VeriSign PIP and Seatbelt

Fedex delivered my VeriSign security fob this morning so I registered it against my OpenID. I know have a second identification request when I log into my OpenID. So somebody may brute force my password but then they’ve got to … Continue reading

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another Jaiku S60 beta released

The guys over at Jaiku have released a new beta version of the S60 client for Jaiku; The main feature of this upcoming release are photos that are shown in streams. Other changes are bug fixes to connectivity. We have … Continue reading

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VeriSign are sending me a fob.

Following my earlier post on the PayPal fob, VeriSign are sending me a VeriSign fob which I can attach to my PIP OpenID and also my PayPal account too. Two things.. it’s great VeriSign are reading blog posts and I … Continue reading

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Twitter updates badge is rubbish.

The twitter apps badge (over there on the left) has broken again. It’s constantly breaking and slows down the loading of the whole page while the updates are attempted to be dragged kicking and screaming from twitter’s nest. I don’t … Continue reading

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Facebook in the Enterprise; a test

As JP continues his Facebook in there Enterprise, he’s on part 8 now, I thought I’d do a small test of how useful Facebook can be within an Enterprise. The problem I had was that I was trying to find … Continue reading

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No PayPal key fob for the UK, not yet anyway.

PayPal has launched the PayPal key fob in the US to add an extra layer of security to the whole PayPal process. Uses will have to enter a unique code as well as their password when they log into PayPal. … Continue reading

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Dave Winer is getting an N800

Dave is getting an N800 rather than an Apple product, he’s getting an N800. After having a loan N800 from Womworld, which has now gone back, I’m looking for the best place to pick one up. I think the set … Continue reading

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