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Entries from February 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-29

February 29th, 2008 · No Comments

@kwerb I work for the telco with the worlds biggest network and would love to read your paper..where will you post it? #
@russh wow…didn’t know it was happened already.call me #
just setup jungle disk and amazon S3, WHS and the powerline adapters are going on eBay soon #

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Telco Dilemma Series: 1. the cost of unlimited & ARPU

February 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As I mentioned in the preface post, SMS Text news has a post “US Carriers become dumb pipes”.
The debate on dumb pipes is obviously wider than that single post and is really around what the carriers should provide, i.e. just the bandwidth and nothing more. The question for the carriers though is how do they [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Telecom

The Telco Dilemma Series.

February 29th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been thinking about the implication of the $99 unlimited packages hitting the US shops and what the impacts of that would be if the model is adopted here in Europe. My musings then went on to cover the other challenges facing the mobile and fixed line carriers. So I’ve decided to split the post [...]

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Tags: Mobile · News · Telecom

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-27

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

we just had the building shake,. enough to wkar both of us up..don’t know what it was? #
yep we just had a tremor, hit the midlands we felt it here in cheshire..it’s hitting the BBC latest news ticker now too..right back to bed! #
chilling out in hotel room on t-mobile wifi..sleep soon, what with earthquakes [...]

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People should report anyone who owns more than one mobile phone

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Having just read this post on SMS Text News, It’s clear I’ll be under suspicion too.
The Metro newspaper in London is reporting that if you see anyone carrying more than one mobile phone, you might well be a terrorist.
People should report anyone suspicious who owns more than one mobile phone, a counter-terrorism campaign launched [...]

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Tags: Mobile · life

Tremor in Chester, England

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

we just felt a tremor here in Chester approx 1am, the building shook
there are reports turning up in west midlands and swidon on blogs here and here
ok back to bed

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Is Your Printer Spying On You?

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer – and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of “Alias,” right?
Unfortunately, the scenario isn’t fictional. In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded [...]

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Tags: News · Web

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-25

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

checking email on our suppliers guest wireless network before departing for Brussels airport and driving past NATO HQ. #
free wi-fi at bussels airport
– gate 28! #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-02-24

February 24th, 2008 · No Comments

@patphelan ..thanks! ..I’m in Reading Wednesday, may be free in the evening to pop into London..post where you’re going to be. #
trying to figure out how to watch the carling cup final now we don’t have sky any longer..and without going to the pub ..can it be done? #
Now watching the Carling cup final with [...]

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New role at Orange

February 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’ve been keeping this under my hat for a few days, but my Manager told the rest of the team last week so it’s in the ‘public’ domain. I have the name of the person to handover to and a date too, so I’m a bit more comfortable talking about it.
For the last 7 months [...]

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Tags: Mobile · News · Orange · Telecom · life

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-23

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

checking out MS Live skydrive whilst watching the rugby.. #
I’m not checking out MS Live Skydrive, as I can’t get passed log in page, I guess everyone else is checking it out right now too. #
something is up with blog, posts and template changes are just hanging..can log in and out and view stuff..can’t change..hmm. [...]

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Mobile Geeks of London 3

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I’m going to miss MGOL3 this week and I’m miffed. I’ve managed to miss 1 and 2 and for 2, like 3 I’ll have been in London on the actual day of the event. The event’s appear to be getting bigger and bigger so by the time 4 comes around it’ll be at the Olympia [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-02-22

February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

booking flights for day trip to Brussels on Monday for a steering committee meeting and it’ll be another 4.15am start..ho hum #
I just connected with a guy on linkedin who has Barack Obama has a contact…hmm #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-02-20

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

back home after 8 hours fo tavelling from Halmstad Sweden to Chester #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-02-19

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments

just driven to the customer site in freezing fog, the sun is no out though..day full of meetings and calls #
@leolaporte it’s been 24 hours almost now..poeple have noticed, but it doesn’t appear to have made the tech news sites..wait till android #
@whatleydude picking up your @patphelan post i’m around down south wednesday gonna miss [...]

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