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

I went along to the Vodafone 360 launch at Bentley’s with an open mind and a sense of excitement on Thursday, you see I have been a fan of Vodafone 360 since it was called Zyb and founded by my friend Tommy Ahlers, I met with Tommy recently in Barcelona and was told to “watch [...]

Whats going on in Vodafone?
Earlier in the year they purchased Zyb the European based address book back-up service, I am a huge fan and was informed by senior sources that it was going to become a loopt based play eventually. As you can see from the image below everything was moving in the right direction.

Today [...]

Looks like thinks are hotting up at Zyb
The social phonebook is almost a reality. There have been a number of changes to the site and its looking superb.

I recently met with the team and was sworn to secrecy until today. The new release will include API’s to all social networks, location, back-up and store your [...]

News in from Tommy Ahlers Zyb CEO on a ZYB shout out.
“we have sold Zyb to Vodafone, very very exciting times, good news for the Zyb team and all our loyal users,we now have much more power to do what we want”
The price being given is €31.5 million in an exclusive by Michael Arrington.
I am [...]

The contacts in your mobile phone are THE social network and with a number of companies attempting to gain access to this it was only a matter of time before back-up kings Zyb made a play for this.

The ZYB Phonebook will, for example, enable you to:

* see the live physical location [...]