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  • Twitterfone launches

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    Twitterfone launched last night to a spectacular response. Mike Arrington gave it a glowing report on TechCrunch and the feedback has been very positive. What does Twitterfone do? Not much! It does one thing and it does it well. It allows you to dial a local number, leave a short message, the message is then…

  • OpenSocial signs up MySpace and SixApart too!

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    I mentioned earlier in the week that Google was about to launch OpenSocial, a Social Network API platform. Since then Mike Arrington in TechCrunch is reporting that not only is it happenning but MySpace, Bebo and SixApart are on board too! The OpenSocial site is now live and confirmed participants so far are: Engage.com, Friendster,…

  • 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…

  • What are the chances?

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    What are the chances of getting this into Pixenate Walter? via TechCrunch

  • Congrats Pat

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    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 and demo their products over a two day period at TechCrunch20. And they don’t pay…

  • Foxmarks to launch next great search engine?

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    Google had a great idea. Order your search results based on the number of times a site is linked to. Brilliant! A link to a site is counted as a vote of confidence in the site’s quality/veracity. And it works because people generally only link to interesting sites. Foxmarks is a nifty little Firefox plugin…

  • Ad supported Office in the works?

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    I see Microsoft are following Google into the Advertising business with their announced purchase of aQuantive for $6bn. Advertising definitely seems to be where the money is at right now – as Michael Arrington put it earlier on TechCrunch: Google bought Doubleclick for $3.1 billion in April. Later that same month, Yahoo acquired competitor RightMedia…

  • Sam Sethi fired for not deleting a comment?

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    There is a post on the web2ireland blog claiming that Techcrunch UK’s Sam Sethi has been fired by Mike Arrington! The post author, Paul Walsh is very close to Sam so I would put a lot of faith in this post. My sources are telling me that Sam was fired for refusing to remove a…