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

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 [...]

Whilst Skype generally isn’t my cup of tea, its reach is huge, I was looking at a few rankings this morning and thinking huge congrats must be due to my friends at Jajah. Then I happened to take out Truphone and add Skype to the inquiry, results below kind of bought me back to reality. [...]

I have one somewhere but can’t put my hand on it. I have a phone though, its right next to me, I kind of tend to do my talking on that. Thats my take on Truphones latest release for the iPod touch, its innovation for innovation sake. Dont get me wrong I am a Truphone [...]

Today was a great day for Blackberry, Firstly qik got out their Blackberry app which is covered extensively elsewhere and works perfectly for me. This morning Truphone got me over a copy of the new truphone call anywhere for Blackberry, unfortunately I was unable to write about it earlier due to teething problems but my [...]

I have been wanting to write this for ages as I have been on the road reguarly for almost 18 months now but top blogger and buddy Andy Abramson beat me to the punch. I do however want to add some bits and pieces to Andy’s excellent post and will start off by reiterating Andy’s [...]

This is a real serious development for the Fring team lead by my buddy Boaz Zimmerman,an email from Gil Regev yesterday asking me to test had to be ignored for 24hrs due to travel, I posted today that the iPhone was going under the hammer for a Samsung Omnia i900 but this has earned it [...]

Truphone have beaten every telecoms company on the planet to be the first voice application in the Apple iPhone apps store “If you’re connected to a Wi-Fi network and want to make a low-cost call over the internet, simply open the Truphone application and call as normal. You use the same address book as always [...]

With Jajah inking deals left right and centre at present I am wondering is Truphone next to tie in with the Web 2.0 carrier? It looks like it could be tru My “spies” are telling me that Jajah head of networks James Body and Jajah’s Jasmine Aharon are in the final stages of a tru/jajah [...]

Truphone have taken a giant step with their release of V4.0 Users are now able to make calls without being connected to the internet, The system commonly know as dial-through involves the Truphone system making call to a local number and at the same time making an international call, the server then marries these calls [...]

Amazing news from UK based Truphone today. “Mobile internet network operator Truphone has raised £16.5m ($32.7m) of Series B venture capital funding” The round was led by private investors, with all of Truphone’s existing backers – Burda Digital Ventures, Eden Ventures, Independent News & Media and Wellington Partners – also participating” This is an incredible [...]