Category: Telecoms

  • Blueface make personal attack, unfounded slurs on former customer

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    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 are more personal than factual. Challenged to back them up he has repeatedly demurred. Long…

  • Cubic Telecom forms strategic alliance with Global Roaming Inc

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    I see Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom has announced a “strategic alliance” with Global Roaming Inc who trade under the CelTrek brand. The press release on Pat’s blog is short on details and pat is travelling at the minute so I’m not sure what exactly the alliance delivers to each company apart from what they say…

  • BT Broadband users can be hacked!

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    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 commented at the time: they have inadvertently created Ireland’s largest free WIFI network. Good man…

  • First iPhone photo editor app?

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    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pixenate on the iPhone, originally uploaded by pxn8. Having recently successfully deployed their Pixenate FaceBook app (a photo editor for Facebook), it looks like Sxoop Technologies are now out to be…

  • Cubic Telecom make the final 40 in TechCrunch40

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    Paul Boutin is reporting the finalists in the TechCrunch40. This has been a closely guarded secret for several weeks now but Paul spotted the names on banners in the Palace hotel! One of the names is Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom – the only Irish finalist out of over 700 entries – well done Pat. There…

  • Cork-based telecoms firm raises €5m

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    Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom have released details of €5m worth of investment they have received. Cubic Telecom is the parent company of the Roam4free and Yak4ever brands. From the release Cubic has raised a EUR3.5M investment from private backers in order to develop a suite of innovative global mobile and home phone products under the…

  • iPhone EU launch limited to 3 countries

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    I spotted an article in the Financial Times last night which said Apple has succeeded in persuading 3 mobile operators to sell the iPhone in Europe using the same revenue share as AT&T in the US. The three mobile operators mentioned are T-Mobile of Germany, Orange of France and O2 in the UK. According to…

  • Did you kill Skype last week?

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    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 just curious about how Skype managed to keep the service running every other month that…