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This post got me thinking
“93 of top 100 brands don’t control their Twitter name”
I know Zappos have done an amazing job with twitter and I have engaged with their CEO Tony Hsieh who has over 30,000 fans including me.
Shel has been interviewing a number of corporate Twitterers for his book Twitterville but I am yet [...]

Well I wasn’t hugely out on last year, one huge success though, my two buddies Loren and Michelle got hitched.
So I will give it another go.
Florian WILL buy that DB9.
Mulley communications will be a huge hit.
Qik will be acquired by a mobile manufacturer.
Android will blow away iPhone, this I will take a risk on and [...]

My friends know how much doing this stuff turns me on
MAXroam running with full 3G on an unlocked G1 Android phone

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Now this is pretty cool and should have iPhoners downloading in the millions.
“Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like “Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” or “How tall is Mount Everest?” [...]

I wrote a story on Hop-on the vaporware mobile phone manufacturer 6 days ago outlining why its claims were vaporware and whats going on there.
One blogger Rob Jackson followed up on the story and digged a little deeper and got into a really great story.
This week Nilay Patel @Engadget, John Mahoney @Gizmodo, Eric Zeman @phonescoop [...]

I have now used every Irish network including the 3G radio on the iPhone 3G and have used MAXroam in it with full 3G in a couple of different countries.
All with no issue
So what am I using
Well its this little beauty.The Rebel sim card, (Go buy one and test it use the code weekend10 for [...]

Twitterfone was born yesterday.
With no advertising budget it was up to myself, David Marcus, Florian Seroussi, Ivan MacDonald and Sean O Sullivan to use our individual networks to get it out the door.
First port of call was the amazing powerhouse Michael Arrington of Techcrunch.
Mike’s post got us of to a positive start and the post [...]

Google have released a very simple helpful product recently.
You know how sometimes you get an address, phone number or directions from the web, you just can’t find a pen or paper.
Well, “Google send to phone” sorts that, you highlight and click and it sends the highlighted text to your phone.
Very simple,very cute, I like it [...]