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

This week I watched a funeral online.It wasn’t my first and I suppose it wont be my last
The corpse was paraded around a theme park which wasn’t surprising given the amount of clowns attending and it was pitiful to watch, relative’s and friends no matter how distant were flown in from foreign parts to give [...]

I wrote about Viddy and its extraordinary valuations recently
In the last 48hrs I am being inundated about Viddy’s explosive growth, its incredible A-List backers and hell even Zuck’s on it now.
I believe that video will eventually be huge on mobile and with Socialcam as a competitor hopefully the space can mature and grow but there’s [...]

I parked illegally today in Cork for a few minutes.
When we got back to the car it was gone, it had happened to me once before years ago so a taxi to Blackpool to the Cork City pound.
Got there and its closed down
I was getting seriously worried thinking the car was stolen and called the [...]

Many of you probably don’t even remember the last internet bubble I know I barely can but on visits to San Francisco its whispered about in hushed tones.
These are probably the best synopsis of it on Wikipedia and The Economist.
Lately we are seeing similar circumstances with very high IPO value’s for companies who haven’t really [...]

I absolutely love Kickstarter
“The filmmakers, musicians, artists, and designers you see on Kickstarter have complete control and responsibility over their own projects. They spend weeks building their own project pages, shooting their own videos, and brainstorming what to offer as rewards.Rewards are things like a copy of what’s being made, a limited edition, or a [...]

Have you seen Voxer?
I remember the early days of travelling to the USA and seeing guys using Nextel mobile service as a walkie talkie and thinking this is the coolest thing ever.
Well Voxer does the same on iPhone and Android but it also does a lot more
Text, Voice, photo’s, location but most important to me [...]

This is a space I have been watching for a long time that’s now growing rapidly globally.
Whats really bought this to the forefront of my mind was a discussion last week around what Irish food’s you miss when you are away from home but more about that later.
The fantastic dollar shave club sends razor’s to [...]

I wrote this post “Twitter, are you a numbers jockey?” way back in 2009 and it still rings true today.
There still appears to be a consensus that more is more on twitter and the more followers you have the better your opinion will be.
I am watching a “respected” twitter user artificially increase their twitter followers [...]

Finally an Android device that breaks my Cupertino addiction.
There are an incredible number of reviews floating around at present with most of them being overwhelmingly positive.
“People will take great photo’s with the One x” Engadget
“HTC has thrown down the gauntlet with its new flagship” Android Community
“There’s a lot to love in the HTC One X” [...]

Garry of mi-zone demoed one of his early devices to me months ago and I was blown away by the concept. mi-zone is a two-way Bluetooth security alarm which works with a mobile phone to protect both the phone and other valuables such as a handbag, keys or a laptop to which the tag is attached.
I [...]