Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsA little bit of everything

I am at the age where I should be staying in nice 4 stars hotels with the Irish breakfast waiting for me and all my worldly comforts, luckily I hate that kind of lifestyle and am happy to bunk down even luckier my family are happy to do the same, don’t get me wrong everyone [...]

With the release of Amazon’s latest Kindle I was doing a little noodling last night and a thought entered my mind its $139, why not just give it away, YES, GIVE IT AWAY, so I have been doing a little research and I think it makes perfect sense. With almost $2 billion cash on hand [...]

We are just back from our holidays and I really thought that with Foursquare and a ton of MAXROAM credit that we were going to find all these little off the beaten track places or these amazing places to eat suggested by my 791 friends a number of which live are or are from the [...]

Just back from an incredible two week hop around Europe, we were supposed to get in Berlin but circumstances in London cut that back to London. Paris and Amsterdam. Some pictures below London Paris Amsterdam

This issue looks as if it could turn very nasty. Last week the UAE rulers announced that on October 11th it will block all Blackberry data transmissions in the Kingdom, citing “security concerns” the government has said  that it cannot monitor BlackBerry communication because data is encrypted and handled through servers abroad. Yesterday RIM the manufacturer of  Blackberry cancelled its launch [...]

A colleague told me a few months ago that “the market isn’t you Pat its the ordinary mobile user”  at the time this seemed like a huge slap in the face but over the past period I have spent quite a bit of time speaking with “Normob’s” about their requirements. I smiled a little yesterday when I saw Clive [...]

I have been thinking about writing this for the past few weeks and my buddy Om gave me the shove to do it yesterday with his post “FourSquare’s Crowley on Facebook, Check-in Fatigue & the Copy Cats” This post is absolute killer to write given my past positivity and possible giddiness on location based services. [...]

I came accross an interesting post today from twitter The Old Spice videos which I absolutely hated and which drove Niall into an absolute frenzy in which he called it “Best Use Of Social Media In An Ad Campaign Ever” didnt improve sales and in fact the week after the campaign sales are down 7%. [...]

I have listened to the positves and the negatives from the iPhone 4 debacle for the last few weeks and I seriously can’t believe how this non story is still running. I am obviously not an Apple Fanboy however I do use the iPhone, I am also an Android user. Job’s frustration is easy to [...]

A number of pretty interesting posts popped up over the weekend by a couple of guys that I really admire and finally they got me to return to this forum. The first post is by Robert Scoble “Why I can’t kick the iPhone habit” Like Robert I have had the Desire, The Hero, The Nexus [...]