Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsA little bit of everything

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]