Pat Phelan: Telecomms DisruptorSubverting telecomms from the edge of industry

Twitter have finally done the sensible thing and cancelled SMS delivery outside of Canada, India, or the United States and hurrah for it.
This cost most have been a serious drain on the company and has been mentioned by lots of people including myself as a worrying cost factor in the future development of twitter.
“It pains […]

Jajah have released a very nice translation engine which is available by just dialling a number in USA/UK/Australia.
Jajah Babel
Jason Kincaid over at Techcrunch has given it a test drive and it definitely gets a thumbs up.
“With help from IBM, JAJAH brings down the final barrier to global communications with JAJAH.Babel, a revolutionary real-time translation service […]

I only tweeted it yesterday.

Suddenly I am on a call with a bunch of friends from twitter

Phweet founded by David Beckemeyer of PhoneGnome fame and Stuart Henshall works beautifully
I just entered my sip address recieved the call for free here in Spain and suddenly twitter has become a real chat channel
Well done guys, big kudos […]

One of the sites which really passed me by over the last few months has been Pix.ie , I initially played around with it but as it the recipient of the Tuesday shove I had a play with it today and can report that it has passed with flying colours.
Its fast for uploading and I […]

I was sad to see Amy Winehouse in a bit of bother today again, its a tough road for her and with a father who appears to see her as a meal ticket she has her hands full.
As a recovering alcoholic (almost 10 years sober) I see a long and difficult road in front of […]

Scott with an amazing aluminium bodied Ferrari, custom built

Andrew in Puerto Banus

Andrew and Dad

Me and the boys

Took my usual trip to the local Pharmacia here in Calahonda this morning to stock up for next 6 months.
Ventolin and Becotide manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline same manufacturer and brands as I get in Ireland, that’s unfortunately where the similarity ends.
Spain €7.11c
Ireland €59.42
For the same brand and both EU countries.
Who on earth is profiteering from this? […]

The Phelan family are gone fishin for two weeks
Light blogging only

I have been aware for a couple of weeks now that Israeli based mobile lifecasting company Flixwagon have been paying video blogger Sarah Austin of Pop17 to post video’s to their site.

I had only been made aware of this by a couple of sources who whilst disgusted would not give me permission to post and […]

I spent the day at the BBC today in the wonderful company of the Switch team. Charlotte and Anthony invited me to speak on the future of mobile networks and what applications their viewers will be using in the next months/years.
We had a blast and I was amazed at the innovation taking place at the […]