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

It’s not very often that an amazing idea comes along.
Well, here’s one and I absolutely love it
Flightfox
Its so simple you wonder why hasn’t anyone thought of this before.
“Why stress yourself out with flight search? Leave it to the experts who know all the tricks of the trade. Our flight experts use industry tools and shortcuts [...]

I was really looking forward to Dragon’s Den this year with the addition of Sean O Sullivan of Avego and had great hopes that we were going to see some innovation and more technical products.
I have just sat through episode two and its more of the same with zero innovation, in fact the most interesting [...]

Today’s the big day of the iPad 3 launch
Mines on the way, its just left the UK
Have you noticed how many people are now travelling with their iPad, it appears that its the business tool of choice now for everyone you see in airports, with that in mind,We have been working hard here on a [...]

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 and [...]

 
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 Apple’s [...]

 
 
 
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 the last day for [...]

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 for [...]

 
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 [...]

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 you [...]

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 [...]