Tag: Telecoms

  • Apple's iPhone launch – a disaster in the making?

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    Tom Raftery
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    The new Apple iPhone is a very desirable bit of kit, no doubt about it. Even at the $499 (4GB) or $599 (8GB) asking price. I spoke to a contact in Apple about the iPhone which they are launching with AT&T this coming Friday and, from what he said, the launch sounds like it has…

  • Yak4ever is Allfreecalls.net relaunched and re-branded

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    Pat Phelan is persistence personified! He launched Allfreecalls.net earlier this year to some considerable acclaim only to have to shut it down after legal action by AT&T! Pat has been plugging away in the background ever since trying to get the service back up and running again. Yesterday Pat announced that Allfreecalls.net is back up…

  • Fancy €100,000 p.a.?

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    That is what Pat Phelan is offering to his next hire! Pat is posting this on his blog and in the job sections of the papers. It will be interesting to know where he receives the most applications from. Pat is looking for a business development manager. Unfortunately he is looking for someone with experience…

  • Off to MIX07

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m writing this post in Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport waiting to board a flight to Chicago (and then another to Vegas) for Microsoft’s MIX07 conference. I’m looking forward to the conference, the line-up of talks looks really impressive and I’ll get a chance to meet some great people. What is really cool as well…

  • Jangl sign-up broken?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been trying unsuccessfully, to sign-up for Jangl‘s service for several days now. Part of the process involves calling their service, choosing and entering a four digit PIN. However, every time I have tried this, Jangl says it doesn’t recognise the PIN I have entered. The explanation can’t be as simple as Jangl doesn’t…

  • Nokia N70 and E65 cameras compared

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    I took a couple of close-up photos of my bookcase to compare the quality of the cameras in the Nokia N70 and the Nokia E65 Here is a copy of the photo the N70 took: and here is the E65’s photo of the same bookcase (in high quality mode): As you can see from these…

  • Is your mobile operator crippling your phone?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Making calls from your mobile over wifi, instead of your mobile provider’s network, saves lots of money on call charges. This has the obvious consequence of reducing the income of the bloodsucking mobile operators (all together now, awwwww). To ensure you can’t do this, some mobile operators have crippled the ability to make Internet calls…

  • Sony Ericsson k800i?

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    Tom Raftery
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    In response to my last post about which replacement phone to get for my dead Nokia N70, several people have suggested that I get a Sony Ericcson k800i. Despite my bad experiences with the N70 (and worse with my wife’s N91) I am slow to move away from Nokia. Why? Well, almost all my phones…