Category Archives: News

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

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 … Continue reading

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Back from Holiday

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

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 … Continue reading

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Clarke calls Europe to hold telecoms data for three years

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 … Continue reading

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On Holiday

I’m taking some time off this week as it’s half term. So I’ve dusted off the moutain bike and taking it for the odd spin…see you in a few days.

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Forrester picks up on Podcasting

Forrester picks up on Podcasting [via Adam Curry]

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huawei buy marconi

I’m getting loads of hit’s coming from Googlers who’ve entered the search phrase "huawei buy marconi"… I guess it’s widely thought that Huawei will buy Marconi..maybe it’s just a case of when will they buy Marconi now? Anybody know anything … Continue reading

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Radio 4 looks at podcasting

Radio Me Faster than a speeding bullet, radio is facing enormous changes – from the Internet. Just like downloading songs, “podcasting” makes radio available when and where the listener wants it, not merely when the broadcaster puts it out. Peter … Continue reading

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Telcos Can’t Afford to Stand Still

Business Week has an interview with Todd Rosenbluth, Standard & Poor’s analyst of telecom services stocks…"growth is coming mainly from newer services such as wireless, broadband"   

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The Other IBM

IBM launched a new Campaign today.

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Layoffs Leave Europeans With Big Blues

Forbes runs with the story "Layoffs Leave Europeans With Big Blues" 5.9.05..(hang on that’s tomorrow ??.. I guess the guy that wrote it is in Asia) Again this is my view, but I’m sure there are some people with the … Continue reading

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IBM to cut jobs

Somebody asked my wife at her work today.."is IBM doing a Rover?" Obviously this is my view, but following the news today about IBM, I’m sure I can say we’re not doing a Rover. But it was strange  to be … Continue reading

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RSS feed is moving..

I’m moving the RSS feed from here to here Please update your aggregators asap…Thanks!!!

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Ebbers guilty of $11bn fraud

Bernie Ebbers, the former WorldCom chief executive, was found guilty on Tuesday of leading an $11bn accounting fraud that pushed the once high-flying telecommunications group into the largest bankruptcy in US history…..He faces more than 20 years in prison when … Continue reading

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UK Telco

I had a meeting with the CEO and COO of a UK Telco today down in London. Very interesting meeting. It sounds like they have a great network, but we’ll see.

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