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Its not every day Ireland can boast a new World Champion…
Then again, it’s not every day Ireland produces a world-beating driving-force such as Adam Carroll.
The 26-year-old from Portadown today took a quantum leap towards his dream of Formula One stardom by clinching his own world championship crown in the prestigious A1GP World Cup of [...]

One of my issues with being so busy is that it leads to blogging blanks.
I have so much to say on twitter and in real life but all this talk leads me to firing blanks on this blog.
So I introduce you to a new meme “Firing blanks”
Why do companies say their client is the “best [...]

You are now familiar with my regular cyber squatting on Pat’s blog. Today 1 year after this post we are going to see if Twitter can be mainstream and still be interesting.
In last few weeks celebrities took over our favorite social medium. Not that it bothers me. Twitter is a democracy. My issue is mostly [...]

We would love to see you all here. Come along and support Adam and the lads, we nearly have it won.
Invite below
MEDIA INVITATION
Wednesday 22nd April 2009, Mansion House, Dawson Street 10AM-12:30PM
A1 Team Ireland Comes to Town…
YOU are invited to join A1 Team Ireland, the world leading team, who are hoping to move a step closer [...]

The kind guys at Nokia gave me one of their fantastic Nokia CS-10 Internet sticks to test with MAXroam. I have finished testing and the results are great.
Its a mobile broadband usb dongle that works in Windows and Mac, just stick in a 3G sim, enter the network APN and bang you are good to [...]

Every time I leave San Francisco I swear I will be back for a longer period next time, it hasn’t happened yet but hopefully one day.
Today was a day of dreams
I met with Patrick Collison, Salim Ismail, Brad Garlinghouse, Craig Walker and finally the boss man himself Michael Arrington
Mike invited me to the new Techcrunch [...]

I notice when I write telecom’s pieces here that they don’t get the amount of comments that they used to.
Maybe its because I write about lots of different stuff now?
People are always asking me who do I recommend for long distance calls
In my opinion there is only one service I use at present on a [...]

The first F1 is over
What a race, I am thrilled for the four B’s, its a new beginning for Formula 1.
Cars were sliding and drifting and I think the late 70′s early 80′s are back.
Its an incredible feat considering the only sponsor besides engines from Mercedes was Henri Lloyd (another 80′s classic reinventing itself at [...]

I really believe Peek’s launch of The Pronto yesterday will become known as a pager moment for the 21st century.
Its a totally simple and low cost way of receiving email and text on the move.
They have also now added support for Microsoft Exchange which bring them into the business sphere, they savings here are quite [...]

We had the big Google Voice announcement yesterday and my first thought was opps I wonder what my buddies James Whatley of Spinvox and Jamie Simonoff of PhoneTag make of this and the FREE voice to text translation.
Well first over to Mr Whatley

And then to the Tagger Mr Siminoff

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