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

I decided to sit back and watch the reactions to Microsoft’s purchase of Skype before I made any comment, well done Om for gazumping everyone. Firstly, a couple of interesting points 1. Microsoft paid around $1000 per customer (imagine Facebook at that kind of valuation) 2. A lot of sites reported that Google and Facebook were in [...]

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 [...]

A number of pretty interesting posts popped up over the weekend by a couple of guys that I really admire and finally they got me to return to this forum. The first post is by Robert Scoble “Why I can’t kick the iPhone habit” Like Robert I have had the Desire, The Hero, The Nexus [...]

This was a nice surprise that I just picked up from Engadget and decided to test for myself. It worked first time, full turn by turn navigation with voice enabled directions on Android operating system. I have put in local and nationwide directions and it copes with them perfectly. This is extremely impressive on the [...]

I have been asked how to do this at least 20 times this week alone by iPad purchasers. Its incredibly easy and I got the tip from Bernie @topgold almost a year ago “1. Start iTunes from a fresh log-in. This means you need to log out of any other account. I normally toggle out [...]

The Irish Blog Awards finalists list was published over the weekend and I’m delighted to see that we made it. Hopefully I can make it to Galway on Saturday night. I am over the moon that my own blog made it to the finals in the “Best Technology Blog/Blogger” category. The full list of finalists [...]

My Htc Hero arrived yesterday, we bought it to test with some new MAXroam stuff and I have to say the improvement in Android since the G1 has been amazing. Menu layout and movement between applications is quick and intuitive and graphics are amazing. There is only one slight issue, after an overnight charge and [...]

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 Interesting thought isn’t it? [...]

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 [...]

This is incredible news Jaiku is to shut down Google has announced that it is shutting down Jaiku the twitter like service “Google will release the Jaiku code under the open source Apache license, so that other organizations can pick up where the Google team left off. It is not clear if current users will [...]