Tag Archives: voip

Blueface make personal attack, unfounded slurs on former customer

Posted on February 12, 2008 by

Blueface would appear to be losing it. Feargal Brady, Blueface CEO has, out of the blue, decided to start leaving deliberately inaccurate, bizarre and unsubstantiated accusations against me in comments on a post on this blog. Some of these allegations … Continue reading →

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BT Broadband users can be hacked!

Posted on October 9, 2007 by

James Galvin posted a couple of weeks ago about a recently published exploit which made hacking Eircom’s wireless routers trivial. As Eircom are the largest provider of residential broadband in Ireland, this is potentially a big deal. As Joe Drumgoole … Continue reading →

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Did you kill Skype last week?

Posted on August 20, 2007 by

I did! Skype are claiming that with their outage last week was due to massive numbers of people re-starting their computers after downloading Microsoft’s monthly software update! I am sure they are correct, despite how implausible it sounds. I am … Continue reading →

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Skype offline

Posted on August 16, 2007 by

In case you hadn’t noticed (or read about it elsewhere) Skype has been offline since around 11am this morning. It is now 5pm. This is the first time I can remember Skype being unavailable since I started using it 3-4 … Continue reading →

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Congrats Pat

Posted on August 7, 2007 by

Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom company has been selected to be one of the finalists in TechCrunch 20 for their Roam4free product. What is TechCrunch 20? From the site: Twenty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce … Continue reading →

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Yak4ever is Allfreecalls.net relaunched and re-branded

Posted on May 14, 2007 by

Pat Phelan is persistence personified! He launched Allfreecalls.net earlier this year to some considerable acclaim only to have to shut it down after legal action by AT&T! Pat has been plugging away in the background ever since trying to get … Continue reading →

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Fancy €100,000 p.a.?

Posted on May 10, 2007 by

That is what Pat Phelan is offering to his next hire! Pat is posting this on his blog and in the job sections of the papers. It will be interesting to know where he receives the most applications from. Pat … Continue reading →

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Off to MIX07

Posted on April 28, 2007 by

I’m writing this post in Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport waiting to board a flight to Chicago (and then another to Vegas) for Microsoft’s MIX07 conference. I’m looking forward to the conference, the line-up of talks looks really impressive and … Continue reading →

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Jangl sign-up broken?

Posted on April 25, 2007 by

I have been trying unsuccessfully, to sign-up for Jangl‘s service for several days now. Part of the process involves calling their service, choosing and entering a four digit PIN. However, every time I have tried this, Jangl says it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Problems receiving calls with Truphone

Posted on April 20, 2007 by

I set up a Truphone account to try out with the Nokia E61 I have been using the last few days. Truphone gives you a US landline number when you sign up for an account with them (mine is 14259053151). … Continue reading →

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