Archive for August, 2006
Getting into the spirit
Thursday, August 31st, 2006Today is international blog day. So say the BBC and that’s good enough for me. The idea being that each blog links to 5 others. I’m sure the search engine crawlers are loving this - it would not surprise me at all to learn that Google were behind it. Now they have an advertising deal […]
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Is there anything a mobile can’t do?
Friday, August 25th, 2006A few weeks ago, I published a research piece on Mobile Data and how the charges levied by the operators were suffocating the market. For an independent view on this, see The Register’s article on an NOP survey done during the World Cup showing that 44% will never use mobile data again. Almost half cited […]
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The Line Rental Deathmatch
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006It seems that BT has upped the stakes in the battle for the consumer’s £11 a month line rental spend. They announced today that they are waiving the £3.95 they charge for unlimited off-peak calls on Option 2 (for the first 12 months of a new 18 month contract). They have come up with a […]
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Tiscali’s Home Choice for IP TV
Monday, August 14th, 2006I will leave the commentary on the technicalities of Tiscali’s purchase of Home Choice to others. What is interesting to me is that the statement that “Tiscali UK’s strategy will also be to enhance its current wholesale DSL product by adding IPTV to the proposition and syndicating this on a ‘white label’ basis.”The market has […]
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To Blog or Not To Blog…
Sunday, August 13th, 2006So, what’s the difference between a blog and a web site? As I’m really not 100% sure, I am going to give blogging a go - it can’t hurt to try, can it? The complicating factor for me at least, is that I already publish my opinions via the Free Research section of my web […]
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Isn’t this supposed to be easy?
Sunday, August 13th, 2006In setting up this blog, what I have found so far is that it’s nowhere near as easy as I thought it would be. This is not exactly my blog provider’s fault (although help files would have been helpful) - it’s because I wanted to use my web site template, rather than one of the […]
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