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Groupon the Chicago based coupon/discount company yesterday announced that they had completed at raise at a $1.35 billion valuation.
Always nice to be proved right though, I have been ranting to anyone who will listen for the past three years about discount vouchers and I think that Groupon are only scratching the surface.
So what do they [...]

O2 UK have just announced the first project with Jajah since their parent group Telefonica acquired the Mountain View based company.
I really like the look of these tariffs and this shows nice inventiveness from the team in O2UK and a nice integration of Jajah with a very simple activation path for customers.
If I were a [...]

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 of the [...]

Firstly and most importantly don’t take this device out and about, a constant flow of complete strangers will touch you, prod you and interrogate you.
Thats what came from the first few hours of having this incredible device.
After 48hrs I really don’t want to be parted from the iPad to be honest.

Being an avid reader its [...]

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 returning to [...]

I have been watching developments closely on this non issue around Nokia’s involvement in supplying Nokia Siemens switching for mobile communications equipment to Iran.
I think Nokia’s behavior in the whole sordid issue has been exemplary given that the so called monitoring equipment (intercept) is supplied by every Mobile switch manufacturer at every installation on the [...]

On March the 12th 2007 I wrote that Magic Jack would be a winner.
A couple of days later they sent me the device
Now we hear that Magic Jack will hit $100 million turnover this year.
“The company is selling about 9,000 to 10,000 MagicJacks a day, according to Borislow, and customers are using about 500 million [...]

02 have made the the first positive step in Irish mobile phone usage for a very long period.
This week they have announced “Release”

Make as many calls and send as many SMS as you like and only pay €99 plus VAT @ 21% per month. Its not bad in fact its not bad at all. Its [...]

Twitter is a conversation tool – I consider it to be a revolution. 140 characters long messages to say it all. No bullshit, no turning around. Just plain instant thinking.
I’m a big Twitter fan – that’s no news to you. 1200 followers, 4000 tweets, 700 direct messages…impressive you think. Well no!!
Some guys decided to break [...]