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

Great news today from two of my favorite guys in telecoms Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet the founders of GrandCentral.
“Here comes Google Voice”
I was there for the launch of GrandCentral at Etel and the speed of Google’s acquisition of them only confirmed my suspicion that this was a very clever application although I did get [...]

I am a huge Lenovo fan
This T60 is my second machine and I seriously love the brand, I haven’t had zero issues until now.Over the last few weeks my screen has been flashing intermittently and whilst its not too bad its starting to become annoying and needs to be fixed now before it gets any [...]

Time for a bit of celebration here
We just went live in Australia with our partners RoamingSim.com.au, this is where Cubic Telecom is heading we are moving to a technology company
You will see up to 50 new partners during this year with USA, Russia, Lithuania and Canada to come next.
The very best of luck to Jon, [...]

To celebrate winning the best phone award at the Mobile World Congress 3 the mobile network have given me a fantastic new INQ1 to give away on this post. Even the worlds hottest telecoms blogger loves it
“With INQ1 you can have Facebook© on your mobile like never before. You get Facebook© alerts direct [...]

I got sick over the weekend and as usual tried to battle it out.
By Monday I was in terrible state, bent over with back and bowel pain, I headed to work but couldnt last the day, most days I drive by the sign for VHI Swiftcare sign near Mahon Point and decided to give them [...]

The sublimely beautiful Toshiba TG01 which yes I didn’t know made phones before you ask
Anyways Greg over at Mobilecrunch a gentleman whose taste I would never question appears to like it.
One of the Nimbuzz heads dropped me a line this morning announcing that the Nimbuzz application will be preloaded on it and whilst I [...]

My brother works for Sony and I got to play with the new Sony Vaio P yesterday, there is not much can be said on first inspection besides WOW, its a piece of art.
You need to handle this machine yourself to appreciate it, its almost featherweight with a really impressive keyboard.
It also has an embedded [...]

I have been a huge fan of Jawbone but my last one broke with the earpiece coming away from the body of the device and the vendor where I bought it saying “warranty over,tough” basically so I decided to try another manufacturer.
I did some research and decided to go for the Blue Ant V1.
It arrived [...]

Its seems like Peter Donegan’s car rental saga from Budget Car rental is never ending at this stage
if you haven’t read Peter’s original post its here
Basically it was a Ryanair type issue, hide it all in the small print.
Rather than apologize and move on Budget Car appear to have sent in the goons today.
“Today I [...]

Fantastic news from Ken
“Walter Higgins at Sxoop Technologies is making great great use of Twitter’s open API and is now combining it with Zazzle to create Twitter Mosaic to offer personalized goods based on avatars of your Twitter friends or followers”
I think this is an amazing idea from Walter, I already ordered a T-Shirt and [...]