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

I got a reminder of this funny story this week. It was September 2007, We had just been on stage Techcrunch50 launching Cubic Telecom and James Seng invited me to lunch with his friend Nick Palevsky. James was a brilliant telephony blogger and we had been communicating backwards and forwards for ages, Nick I had [...]

I have had a chat with a couple of the Irish companies who attended and demoed to TC50 and it appears to have been a huge success for them as I had hoped. Joe Drumgoole “The best event we have ever attended, well worth the time money and effort” Covered by Techcrunch Europe, hats off [...]

Want to know how to stay in luxury in San Francisco for under $100 per night? VRBO A bunch of us Irish guys are off to TC50 next week and with decent hotels running to a couple of hundred bucks per night it was time to return to the old faithful VRBO. I really dislike [...]

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 [...]

In what is one of the most obvious omissions I have ever seen, BusinessWeek omitted Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington from their 25 most influential people of the web. The writer of this must have been sleeping for the year or else something is seriously up at BusinessWeek. Check out the list, its totally nuts, no [...]

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 [...]

MAXroam is attending TC50 as an alumni next week and I arrived in San Francisco yesterday to make sure everything goes smoothly. The rest of the team arrives tomorrow and we have been running around like blue arse flies trying to get everything ready I just arrived back in my hotel to read this from [...]

Its 3.15am in San Francisco and my “body” just woke up, maybe its to remind me to celebrate This time 12 months ago I was in bits, we were launching MAXroam in 48hrs, bags of stuff wasn’t ready and I had to do a dry run demo for Techcrunch 40 with Jason and Mike in [...]

Mike gets all the scoops as usual , I had a call with Loren on Sunday and he told me to keep hush on this. This seriously good new for Loren. “Starting today Verizon Wireless’ 3 million mobile VCast users will have access to Feldman’s video content on their phone, as well as 1 million [...]

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 [...]