Month: September 2006

  • Really disappointed

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m gutted. A job opportunity I have been cultivating for about four months now, fell through today. It would have been really sweet too. Ah well, can’t win ’em all. Back to the drawing board!

  • Jajah launches half-baked mobile product

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    Tom Raftery
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    Jajah launched a new VOIP product for mobile phones overnight. The story was broken by our own Pat Phelan and followed up by BusinessWeek and Mike Arrington. There are a number of problems with the product (I suspect they launched to deadline rather than launching when they had fully tested). The most obvious one I…

  • Noel Dempsey – Ireland's minister for broadband suppression

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    Tom Raftery
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    This is the face in incompetence in Ireland. This is the face of Ireland’s Minister for broadband suppression. This is the face of the minister of communications in Ireland who has presided over Ireland’s languishing: 14th in the EU15 for broadband penetration. That’s the same place we were in 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 etc. etc.…

  • 52mb broadband for

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    Tom Raftery
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    Damien posted the following table of international broadband data from the ITU Notice Japan has 50mb broadband for less than $32 per month? According to Damien the comparable Irish figures are: eircom broadband business plus – 4MB – €107.69 inc vat eircom broadband business enhanced – 5MB – €204 inc vat Digiweb Metro Plus –…

  • Camera cleaning advice needed

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have a Canon digital SLR camera (eos 350d) and recently I realised there is dirt somewhere inside it. Some of the photos have dirt on them and when I look through the view finder I can see stuff that shouldn’t be there. The dirt is not on the lenses as it remains when I…

  • Political blogging conference in Dublin

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    Tom Raftery
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    Irishelection.com are hosting a Blogging the Election conference in the Digital Hub in Dublin on October 7th, I see. This appears to be conference for and about those bloggers who have an interest in politics – it is great to see blogs in Ireland breaking out of the tech niche. Guido Fawkes, noted UK political…

  • Oh no! Scoble Show launched

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    Tom Raftery
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    Robert Scoble’s video show was launched this morning. The delay in the launch was due to the PodTech.net site’s re-design apparantly. There are some fascinating interviews there. One of the videos is of a photo walk with Thomas Hawk. Thomas is a photographer in San Francisco and works with photo sharing site Zooomr. I did…

  • Blog training course commences

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m just about to kick off the first of the it@cork blog training events – there are five training sessions between now and October 23rd. Hopefully I won’t totally bore the pants off the attendees and we’ll get some new and interesting blogs emerging from the course!