Tag: Telecoms
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The Internet of Things – trends for the telecoms, data centre, and utility industries
I gave the closing keynote at an event in Orlando last week on the topic of The Impact of the Internet of Things on Telcos, Data Centres, and Utilities. The slides by themselves can be a little hard to grok, so I’ll go through them below. I should note at the outset that while many…
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First iPhone photo editor app?
.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…
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Cubic Telecom make the final 40 in TechCrunch40
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…
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Cork-based telecoms firm raises €5m
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…
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iPhone EU launch limited to 3 countries
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…
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Did you kill Skype last week?
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…
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Skype offline
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 years ago. Is anyone using it as their only means of telephony? Up to now,…
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3 Ireland's Mobile broadband offering – slow and unstable?
Getting broadband from your mobile operator is a very tempting proposition as I have mentioned previously. It allows you to finally get rid of that landline you so rarely use (and pay a fortune in monthly charges for) and mobile broadband means you can take it with you when you travel – no more looking…