Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

I couldnt let this go without writting about it. Tony Fadell, the man who oversaw 18 generations of the iPod, announced the first product of his stealth startup Nest Labs  on Tuesday: a  thermostat I read this story on my iPhone yesterday morning and was thinking “a flippin thermostat” . then I did a little research [...]

  I wrote a blog last Christmas “SMS is dead, long live IM” where I lamented the death of SMS, I really believed over the next few years that SMS would come under intense pressure from a number of sources like KIK, Ping Chat and many others. All of these have now been completly overtaken by [...]

      I am a judge on the upcoming Vodafone Clicks awards, Vodafone Mobile Clicks is open to seven markets. Any start-up in Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Turkey or the United Kingdom that has a mobile site, service or application can compete for the €225,000 prize fund Today is [...]

Today’s the day A guy called Jody Scheckter with Wolf-Ford won a race on my birthday 22nd of May in 1977 and thus begun a 34 year love affair with Formula 1. It was Scheckter in the 70′s, Prost “The Professor” in the 80′s, Mansell and Damon Hill in the 90′s with a dry patch [...]

  I am putting my head on the block by picking this in May but having spent a day with the Samsung Galaxy S II I think its the safest blog I will ever write. This machine is absolutely incredible, the flow and speed of movement between applications is faster than anything I have seen and with [...]

Its been quite a while since the last blog and much as I love writting, its difficult to get one finished. Anyways I am beginning a health kick and since you guys helped me kick the filthy weed I thought I might try the same with weight. Strange as it may seem to all of [...]

Vodafone Sure Signal arrived last week but with travel and time issues I haven’t had time to test until tonight, before we begin Vodafone gave me this device which honestly is nether here nor there because if they took it back I would go straight out and buy one. Sure Signal uses your broadband line to give you [...]

I have never been a huge Skype fan believing that people speak on phones rather than computers and that 5 billion is a much more interesting number than 28 million. I am though a fan of a new application called Viber which appears to be taking the world of telephony by storm. Friends who would be [...]

Will all the panic in the UK this week and Gordon Brown now wondering if his phone was “Hacked” I thought I would write a simple post on how to stop this “hacking” Firstly none of this involves “hacking”, this is just a word concocted by journalists to make this story grow legs. So how [...]

Unless you have been hiding under a rock all week you will no doubt have heard of Quora, if not, what’s Quora? Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. Milo loves it and thinks “it will be the next twitter” and usually as my colleagues will [...]