Rob’s Digital Life

It’s only been a few months since the last time I mentioned that I’d got a new role within Orange Business, but it’s all change again, I’ve moved Managers and become the Manager of a new group, Telecoms Integrated Operators.
The Sourcing department of Orange Business Services (OBS) has created a new Telecom Integrated Operators Group [...]

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I’ve now had the brand new Nokia E66 for just over a week and..I haven’t been able to put it down. It’s one of the best phone’s I’ve ever had. So I’ll kick off with the bad points first of all then cover the good things about this device.
First off, the firmware has a [...]

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Looks like Dell is hitting a tricky patch. This is the second article I’ve seen chronicling the demise of Dell $3bn saving is a big job and when you’ve had razor thin margins like Dell and a pretty slick operation already, there’s not going to be lot’s of fat in the business to get that [...]

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I upgraded the share online app on my N95 the other day to the new version 3.0. That added a nice little comments and new photo’s tracker to the homw screen and allows me to read the comments on my flickr pictures on my N95 which is great.

I also installed the Beta App location tagger, [...]

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Just going through my Google reader when I read JP’s street cred post, No 10 is on twitter. That’s pretty cool and it’s obviously pretty new as they are replying to @responses.
But one of the tweets also states they are on Flickr too, so my regard for the people behind the shiny black doors goes [...]

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The implication of truly unlimited bandwidth for the users can have huge impacts on the network. We’ve seen the impact of iPlayer on Easynet (a 20% rise in bandwidth and rising), is that there needs to be investment in the underlying backbones to cope with the data.
Take a look at data on GSM, 4Kb/s speeds, [...]

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I think I jumped the gun somewhat on my post about the iPhone SDK. I made the assumption that as the iPhone was based on the OSX kernal that it’d be multitasking capable. Having now read this techcrunch post, I’m not so sure the iPhone is capable of multitasking which is a show stopper.
Only one [...]

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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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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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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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and it’s getting good write ups

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Tiscali have an interesting approach to network migration.
“The logic is that we’ll save more money placing customers on the Tiscali backhaul per month than we will lose from customers migrating away,” he said.
I overheard two engineers in our Manchester office whinging that their tiscali lines were recently performing badly. I don’t know why they [...]

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back at work today. I’ve spent the last 3 days in West Wales cycling around the coast line. Some pics will appear on Flickr in the next day or so.

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IBM plans to add blogging capabilities to the next version of its Workplace collaboration and development software, the company said on Wednesday. [via]
The tools are already there, but I guess if they make it even easier then great. I guess this would be able to create external blogs too.

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The Home Secretary Charles Clark is spearheading a European effort to
convince internet and phone companies to keep private e-mails, text
messages and mobile phone records for up to three years. [via]
I guess we’re going to see a price freeze or hike if this comes in,if there’s an increase in the amount of time that that data [...]

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