Monday, September 8, 2008 Congrats to Cubic Telecom and Pat Phelan on MAXroam V2.
Bigger and bolder MAXroam hurts the feelings and pockets of telcos even more than before 100,000 customers, $1Million in savings in 10 months Up to 90% discount on USA roaming rates Data roaming in 75 countries and much lower than carrier prices Coverage now in 175 [...]
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Pat Phelan has announced Twitterfone. Great design, and a nice handy app for anyone who uses Twitter a lot. A particularly good one for long journeys in the car. Now all I need is a hands free kit, and a text to speech plugin for my phone.
And better late than never: another [...]
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 I noticed this article on RTE site about a new website Irish-Roots.
The website was officially launched today on the Jeanie Johnston in Dublin by Arts Minister Séamus Brennan and Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Such big names from both sides of the border, a high profile launch like this surely means the project was [...]
From Techcrunch UK:
The finer details of the long-awaited Skype phone announcement from mobile operator Three break this morning, but quite a lot is known already about the deal which the network hopes will revive its flagging fortunes.
A mobile phone from Three will be available in UK, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Macau and [...]
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 Very big organisations tend to stick rigidly to a logical naming scheme made up of short location codes and numbers. That’s fair enough, since you need some structure when you have over a thousand servers on site. I personally would argue against it, because I have done my time as a lowly server [...]
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 MAXroam has launched today – congrats to Pat and Cubic Telecom.
I have seen other travel SIM services. Why is MAXroam better?
The common method for all “alternative roaming” SIM’s is to originate their service in somewhere like Latvia, Estonia or Liechtenstein, or via a UK-based toll-free phone number. This approach doesn’t work very well. We know [...]
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I had been planning on touring Eastern Europe earlier in the year – had it all mapped out, from Croatia to Estonia, but was forced to come to terms with the fact that I just couldn’t afford it. So I’m pleased to get the chance to attend the the 5th International Symposium on Parallel [...]
To think that I was amazed by that wooden and leather laptop a few days ago. Now BoingBoing have linked to EcoGeek – an article about wooden computing. Wooden monitors, mice keyboards… this guy even has a wooden iPod:
Unbelievable… check back here in six months because I will surely have my own modded [...]
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From the site that brought you the cockroach-controlled mobile robot, and the functional lego crossbow: here are the top 5 most creative laptop mods. The one shown below is made of wood and leather. I love these things.
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