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

Each year I begin to sweat around the 20th of December, my worry? how many of those insincere SMS’s am I going to have to reply to this month, you know the ones “A very Happy Christmas” to you and yours” , “All the best in 2011 to you and yours” I absolutely hate them, [...]

Its been a pretty incredible year here at MAXROAM. We expanded our team considerably, expanded our partners globally and had our first broken bone (sorry Jason, at least he got the Cubic cast) The very kind guys at Nokia have give us the absolutely gorgeous Nokia C7 to give away to one “Friend”. How do [...]

Eircom MusicHub allows you to stream for free around 5 million tracks if you’re an Eircom customer which as the moment I am not so hence a free account to test. I am a paying Spotify customer though and this is the closest thing to this I have tried. If you are an existing Eircom customer then [...]

The team at Swapkit have come up trumps to help me in this run of giveaways. Swapkit is a really clever business backed by a few friends. I presume you all have seen the TV adverts where you are told to pop your valuable phone in the post, well that in my opinion is a game of [...]

To celebrate our nice new Sony Ericsson X8 Xperia adverts on MAXROAM and on our other sites the guys at Sony Ericsson have given me one of their beautiful Xperia X8 handsets to give away I have been using this most of this week and I think its one of the nicest Android installs that [...]

Vodafone have very kindly given me one of the fantastic new Nokia N8 from their “Home Of The Smartphone Range”. This is an absolutely stunning handset so nice even the “dude” wants one. So whats the deal? This is for Irish entrants only. Just tell me why you should have it ? thats it, simple [...]

Before Twitter there was Jaiku and thats where I started out. It was founded by Jyri Engeström and was later acquired by Google (a lot of its features are in Google Buzz) , at the time it had quite a few problems and I decided to move over to this new start-up called Twitter. I [...]

As an ex-Chef (maybe you didnt know that) I have lots of friends in the restaurant business worldwide who are suffering terribly in this economic downtown. I spotted this project in today’s FT and the concept has just blown my mind. Its by Nick Kokonas and Chef Grant Achatz who run Alinea one of the [...]

It’s not too often that I will go straight out nuts for a product but having been using an early version of HulloMail for months now let me tell you, GO GET THIS. If you receive voicemail this will change your life, no more trying to grab a pen, pressing 7 to reply definitely no more garbled messages [...]

I don’t write enough about new products but once in a while something comes along that really has potential and MogoTix is definitely that. A nice piece from Ryan over at Gigaom drew them to my attention and with Dave Slugger McClure behind them the future looks bright. This is huge market that is in serious [...]