Pat Phelan: Telecomms DisruptorSubverting telecomms from the edge of industry

A paragraph from an excellent post from Luca Filigheddu got me thinking about voice and where its at and where its going.
“All that being said, it’s very difficult for me to see another major disruption coming in the short term to impact mobile communications. I’m referring to changing the way people use their mobile phone […]

This train of thought came about as a result of a few comments on a recent post.
With the Iphone V2 3G now being almost a certainty Apple are going to have a major problem on its hand with all the early adopters suffering from a large dose of penis envy regarding their friends new 3G […]

Whispers emerging from AT&T suggest that the new 3G iPhone will retail @ $199 with a two year contact.
With 18 months in Ireland and 24 months in the UK now being the average mobile phone contract length are we going to see an iPhone break the £100 mark in the UK?
The phone at this price […]

Amazing news coming out of Jajah. I think I kind of called it correct last week
“Jajah appears to be changing its focus recently to become the WorldCom of 2.0 communications, I am not hearing a lot from them on their customer focused plans, it seems to be all enterprise focused at present, I am sure […]

So its a massive health kick here, first to go is

Over the last few months I have begun to get pretty tired late in the day, I have tried every kind of vitamin and all to no avail, nothing seem to work. I have also seen Om get sick and numerous friends getting more […]

Philippine fans of Twitter had a hard time with the international SMS cost as we all do. Twitter only provides US, Canada, India and UK numbers for inbound SMS and the cost of these are quite prohibitive.

One resourceful group have built their own international SMS gateway for Philippine Twitter fans and its now live and […]

One of the most interesting pieces of data from yesterdays Apple quarterly reports were the income from the revenue share on the iPhone airtime.

Now a couple of sites reckon that this is the revenue from the carrier to Apple but if you examine the flow its really the “rent” or maybe even the “tithe” that […]

Well here is one to separate the men from the boys, literally.
Artist Spencer Tunick is doing a few of his installation in Cork and Dublin.

Wonder if this might draw out any of the Web 2.0 crowd or even a few open coffee peeps.
Seems pretty straightforward
“Approximately what length of time will I be naked?
You […]

What can I say about Jeff Pulver?
Friend, gentleman, amazing voip guy, great broadcaster oh and the greatest purveyor of breakfast known to man.
I was sad today to read the news that Jeff has resigned as a director at PulverMedia
Best of luck Jeff if you need anything we are here

This seriously blew me away, I had Blyk down as a FAIL and not for the first time I have to eat my words on this blog.
Friend Ewan has been following the progress quite closely with his Blykwatch and has had some very informative posts on the subject.
Well done to Blyk, words eaten and all […]