Month: October 2006

  • Any questions for Dan Bricklin?

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    Dan Bricklin is the inventor of the spreadsheet. Dan, along with Bob Frankston released the world’s first spreadsheet, called VisiCalc in 1979. Dan has worked on many projects since and recently has started work on wikiCalc – an open source, online spreadsheet application. I’m interviewing Dan this coming Tuesday afternoon (10th Oct 2006) for a…

  • Throw away the key!

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    I’m delighted to see that Bill Lockyer, California’s attorney general has filed felony criminal charges against former HP Chair Patricia Dunn and four others for their spying on fellow board members and on journalists. The back story to this is that HP were concerned about leaks to the press from HP’s board meetings. An investigation…

  • GrandCentral – a couple of questions

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    GrandCentral is an offering from the original creators of DialPad, which gives you one phone number for all your telecommunications. According to GrandCentral’s site, with a GrandCentral account you get: One Number…for LifeTM – Pick a number that will not change when you move or change jobs. ListenInTM on Voicemail – ListenIn on your messages…

  • Blueface has me blue in the face.

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    I have written before about what a crap service I am receiving from voip telephony provider Blueface. Now I know why they are called Blueface. Yet again today the Blueface service is down and I can’t make outgoing calls from my landline. And anyone who has called me on my mobile knows just how bad…

  • Google Maps and Google Earth images updated

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    The Google Earth blog notes that there has been a significant update to Google Earth and Google Maps images. On checking Cork, I found that it has been significantly updated with recent high-res images. However, Rushbrook, where I am based, is still only available in low-res. In this screen you can see Rushbrook is on…

  • Any questions for Jeff Nolan?

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    Jeff Nolan is a former executive at SAP (Jeff led the Apollo Strategy Group for SAP – aka the Oracle Attack group) and recently joined a silicon valley startup called Teqlo. I will be interviewing Jeff tomorrow for the IT@Cork pre-conference podcast series. If you have any questions you would like me to put to…

  • Windows Live Writer – Insert Event

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    I read on Conor O Neill’s blog this morning that Windows Live Writer has a plugin which allows insertion of Events. The Events can be added from Eventful using Live Clipboard or via a search Eventful button in the plugin. To give it a try, I entered the information about the it@cork 2006 Annual Conference…

  • ComReg craps on consumers (again)

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    Pat reported this morning that Smart Telecom’s phone service was down. Their upstream provider, Eircom, cut them off for non-payment of bills leaving 40,000+ of Smart’s customers with no phone service. Were I cynical I’d suggest that Eircom did this as a cheap means of acquiring 40,000+ new customers. The Irish telecom’s regulator, ComReg (aka…