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Another new role at Orange!

July 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: News · Orange · Telecom · life

1 week with the Nokia E66

June 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: Gadgets · Mobile · News · Nokia/S60 · life

Dell’s day is over

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Gadgets · News

Share Online v3.0 and location tagger

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Mobile · News · Nokia/S60 · Travel · Web · life

No 10 is on the social

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

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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Telco Dilemma Series: 3. So is it unlimited or unlimited*

March 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Mobile · News · Telecom

3G would be nice, but what no multi-tasking?

March 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Mobile · News · life

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

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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New role at Orange

February 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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

Vista SP1 is due soon

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

and it’s getting good write ups

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Tiscali - save costs, don’t worry about your customers

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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 from Holiday

August 3rd, 2005 · No Comments

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 promotes blogging on the job

July 15th, 2005 · No Comments

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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Clarke calls Europe to hold telecoms data for three years

July 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment

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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