Let’s face it. If your business is built on things like web based technology (SEARCH), cloud based technology (Apps) and advertising from traffic that goes to and through your search engine or when people are looking at their content in the apps, the concept of many app stores has to be very, very scary for … Read more
In what has to be looked as a swap for more reasons than are readily seen on the surface, T-Mobile is going to exit it’s UK operations and swap their UK network to Vodafone for Vodafone’s Turkey operation. There’s more than just financial reasons here and I’m wondering which network TMO will buy back in … Read more
As I’ve been traveling more and more Internationally, one of the tactics I’ve adopted is to blend in more and look “local” and not like a “tourist” or a “foreigner.” Given I work as part of the Net economy, this means fashion covers a broad spectrum from jeans to up-market business wear in London, to … Read more
Andrew Gill had his virgin Femtocell experience, and it didn’t sound very glowing. My experience overall with mobile shops in the UK as been surprisingly better than in the USA, however there is a big knowledge gap when it comes to the very latest technology. I have the same feeling when flying through the USA … Read more
Over the past week I’ve been shifting between T-Mobile (on my Nokia E71) as well as both Three and Vodafone for mobile data. For ease of use Three and T-Mobile on mobile handsets are simple and easy to deal with, and offer easy to follow pay as you go options for as little as a … Read more
Let’s face it, for those of us in the USA, Indian cuisine is really not something that is found well done except in a few pockets around the nation. But here in London, Indian cuisine is about the best in the world. Over the past year I have dined in many an Indian restaurant, from … Read more
In life some of us have rules we follow, just like some people have lists. Case in point. Never buy a Microsoft branded hardware device and expect it to last more than a few years. How many people ever bought Microsoft 802.11 routers? I did. But do you see them on store shelves any more? … Read more
A lot of time and words are spent bashing Comcast by many a pundit, but you can’t ignore the fact that as a company they clearly have a strategy and a very defined one that says “we want to be you communications company.” In Portland Oregon, a market they serve in competition with iLec Qwest … Read more
Pal Dean Bubley was working in a cafe using is new Novatel MiFi and ran into some content filtering that prevented him from visiting a series of web sites that Vodafone is censoring.
The TechCrunch European Tech Awards nominations are out and the voting is open, and two of my clients plus a company we worked with for a year, Palringo, giving us three are in the running which in hockey terms gives us the Hat Trick! Shozu and Truphone have hit the list in different categories. Truphone … Read more
