Rob’s Digital Life

This is a really interesting story as I worked in this team about four months back, before leaving to join Orange.
Back in 1998, about 90% of IBM’s networking was sold to AT&T, only the Local Area Network teams around the globe remained to provide the connectivity IBM needed either in or between it’s data centres. [...]

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As you may know I resigned form IBM a month back and today was my last day with the company. So I made the trip over to Manchester in the car which I’d cleaned all the junk out of and met up with my UK manager and RussH.
Now I thought that was the last [...]

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The big news for me recently was that I resigned from IBM on Friday. I’ve been with them for 9 years, all of which have been great. All the people I’ve worked with across europe and the globe have been great. It’s always been a positive experience and I’m hugely grateful for all the experiences. [...]

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An interesting look at bloggingstocks.com’s view that Apple will overtake IBM within the next two years.[via]

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This article is interesting, my IBM Thinkpad has been motion sensitve for the past 3 years.
The hard drive potection system know when the device is moving and even shows you in a window if want to see it. I’m sure it could be adapted to become the IBM Wii machine.
I’ve posted an extremely crude Youtube [...]

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IBM in the UK is running a Top Talent program for future leaders for 100 people out of the 3000 in the UK Global Technology Services business. Basically a Talent management program for the top 3% of it’s employees in the UK and I made the list.
There had been Top talent programs in the past but nothing really [...]

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Chris Anderson (author of the long tail) has written a post on his view of the CIO’s and their relevance moving forward.
This follows on from a post I wrote back in May 2004, “Will we need IT support in the future?” which was prompted from reading Peter Cochrane’s post “Are IT departments doomed”.
But I still [...]

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off to Frankfurt for a couple of days tomorrow lunch time. We’ve got our quarterly alliance meeting with AT&T covering the quarters operational issues and issues specific to Germany this quarter, hence the trip to Frankfurt.
Flying Lufthansa out of Manchester, not flown with them before, so it’s another carrier I can tick off the list.

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YES..
I saw this question, or a version of it, in an email today, we’re trying to renew a large contract and somebody had written that ‘networking wasn’t a core competency’
This drove me a little nuts, sure Networking is a core competency, how else do they think all the servers talk to each other?
Networking is a [...]

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The traveling is starting to pick up again, this week has seen a day trip to Dublin and today and tomorrow in London and then Paris Monday. I always love the 4am start on a Monday to catch the 6am flight to CDG.
I keep meaning to write up more of the travel stuff. I spend [...]

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The S60 Blog has a post on Wibree.
It’s a technology I’m aware of and we have been discussing it’s use in a product IBM is developing.
Technorati Tags: IBM, Wibree

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Just wanted to give IBM a big thank you for surprising us in their latest server ad. Not only did IBM put the Diggnation logo on a person’s shirt in the photo, but they also sent us two framed copies of the finished product.
Thanks again to everyone involved at IBM
Nice [via]
Technorati Tags: IBM, Digg, Diggnation

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I was just reading on our internal blogs about our customers being able to use IBM’s sametime instant message platform to talk to the IBMers supporting thier account using this instant messaging.
That’s pretty cool, I’ve allways had the feeling that sametime (ST) was too much of a walled garden and that it needed to be [...]

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With today’s news of TDC’s earnings from it’s involvement in EasyMobile being only £12.8m and Keith McMahon’s prediction that MVNO’s are going to get squeezed out of the Market, it’s going to be a tough start for NTL/Virgin.
I don’t think the name of the new business has been announced yet, but the new business is [...]

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So, after yesterday’s comments from Om, TalkPlus lauches it’s complete app. Based on Om’s comments I’m not sure how much of this is real and available today?
If TalkPlus want’s to send me a beta for me to take a look at then fine, I’ll also pass a copy onto the IBM Voice strategy team.
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