Rob’s Digital Life

Yesterday Nokia issued a statement indicating that, Nokia Siemens Networks will manage, plan, expand, optimize and provide maintenance services for the Orange UK 2G/3G mobile network for the next five years. An interesting development and not un-expected with the CEO, Tom Alexander coming from an MVNO.
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Use of Twitter, the micro-blogging web-site that allows people to post 140-character updates, has exploded in the UK over the last few months; traffic to the site increased by a staggering 974% over the past year according to Techcrunch UK. The site itself now ranks as the 291st most visited site in the UK, and [...]

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Once upon a time, employees had restricted access to the phone. When email arrived, users faced further restrictions- often, you could only email someone in the same company. Many organisations currently place restrictions upon access to Facebook – why?
Our methods of communication are becoming quicker all the time. We started with the letter, moved onto [...]

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I listened to some of Leo’s TWiT today, the show with Kevin Mitnick when he talked about his recent experiences at the US boarder.
The points I’ll discuss below, become pretty serious in terms of crossing any board and especially entering the US post 9/11, for employee’s with company issue laptops who frequently travel on business.
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I’m a tad late to the party with this one, but as we’ve migrated from Lotus Notes to Exchange/Outlook as our corporate email within Orange Business Services, it’s finally given me a change to try out Xobni. So far it’s pretty neat it’s made a difference while on a call, being able to quickly search [...]

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There’s a great article in the New York Times about Luis Suarez and his use of social networking tools to reduce his email. It’s a great article as it’s a huge sales pitch on how IBM can help your business become more productive by installing the social network tools that help.
I’ve written before on Facebook [...]

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There’s two reasons I ask this, because of the talk about selling laptops that I read about and an experience I had yesterday.
The selling laptops is interesting and broadband providers did it recently so it’s not a new model. TalkTalk and Orange offered either free or extremely cheap laptops if you signed up to [...]

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BMW is moving some car production to the US to save costs [via] This isn’t the first I’ve read about switching work back into the US. Infosys the India IT company was moving some helpdesk services back into the US and the mid west to be precise. The advances in remote working for call centre [...]

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This post states that Orange is close to the completion of the intergration of GTL. This is true, we have a account right now that we’re going to use GTL to manage part of the infrastructure. We had used partners to help us manage some parts of our outsourcing customers infrastructure, now we’re able to [...]

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lifehack.org has a great post on making yourself useful, the first tip is ’share what you know’. This is one of the biggest problems within large organisations, you find one person who knows how everything works, he or she knows lots of useful information but thinks that by keeping it to themsleves is the best [...]

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Having recently taken part in the beta testing of the new S60 Jaiku client I’d realised how easy it was for us, the beta testers to have a conversation with the developers or manufacturer of that product.
They read your emails, they respond to posts on the group hub and also read your jaiku’s too. They [...]

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I’ve now been with Orange Business Services for nearly 8 weeks and it’s been an exciting time, we’ve got some interesting projects and the organisation is taking some time to get to grips with as it does within any global Enterprise. However, I’m continuing to be impressed by our Senior VP, my bosses boss and his vision for the [...]

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