@EdVaizey reschedules #NetNeutrality Roundtable and ITSPA publishes detailed evidence on Mobile Network Operator bad practice

January 26, 2012
Net Neutrality,Mobile,VoIP

A Ministerial Roundtable on Net Neutrality had been scheduled for 24th January (ie yesterday) with  Internet Minister Ed Vaizey and the major fixed and mobile operators due to attend. EV is expecting industry to produce a voluntary code of practice in respect of Net Neutrality. In the run up to the meeting and following individual [...]

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O2 – brown stuff spreads from whirring object

January 25, 2012
O2,mobile,phone number,website,visited

I don’t normally jump on a bandwagon although sometimes working for an ISP I get wind of juicy bits of network issues such as an exchange catching fire and might try and get in before the bandwagon has started to roll. On this occasion the bandwagon is trundling down the hill at pace carrying news [...]

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I just blocked someone on Facebook – one of those easy decisions but nevertheless painful

January 25, 2012
unsolicited,Facebook,friend,requests,spam,suspicious

It really really pains me to admit it but I have just blocked an absolutely gorgeous woman on Facebook. The friend request came in out of the blue and thinking she must be a friend of a friend I took a look. This woman was highly attractive and had some very sexy photos in her [...]

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The communications world of the future #TimicoDC

January 25, 2012
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For the odd one of you that missed last week’s datacentre opening day I now have a few photos to fling your way (rhyming purely coincidental but reveals a deep natural talent ) We had a great line up of VIP guests including from Newark Madam Mayoress, Mr Mayor and our local Member of Parliament [...]

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What’s in a name?

January 25, 2012
Mitt,Newt,Barack,Tref,Dave

Despite on occasion being known to criticise the UK government for policy matters relating to the internet I am not a particularly political person. I have had a go at both (New) Labour and the current coalition. The one thing I can’t fault them on, whatever their political hue, is the names of the politicians [...]

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Simple guide to being a real person who someone might want to engage with on Twitter

January 23, 2012
Twitter

For me one of life’s little disappointments is to see that I have lots of new Twitter “followers” only to find that they aren’t worth following back. Sounds a little high and mighty? My approach to life is that I am only here the once so I might as well make the most of it. [...]

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Video games killed the art of conversation – spot the game megaprize competition #TimicoDC

January 19, 2012
Timico,datacentre,video,game,console

We had a hugely successful data centre opening event at Timico yesterday – 210 customers, prospective customers and business partners came along and, if I say so myself, had a great time (and were impressed ). More on this as soon as I’ve assembled the photos etc – I’m on the move at the moment. [...]

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Protest against #SOPA #TimicoDC

January 17, 2012
Protest,SOPA,TimicoDC

The Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA bill is being considered by legislators in the USA as a means of combating online copyright infringement.  “The bill is so over broad and badly written that it is going to impact all kinds of things that don’t have anything to do with stopping piracy” –  Jimmy Wales, founder, [...]

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Domain disputes and cybersquatting

January 12, 2012
Nominet,Domain,name,cybersquatters

An invitation arrived yesterday to attend a Nominet briefing on dispute resolution for domain name registrars. It’s a breakfast job in London so I probably won’t go. With the invite came an interesting stat – one in every 3,000 .uk domains is subject to a dispute of some sort! Considering that Nominet manages knocking on [...]

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world record attempt – the results are in #comment24

January 11, 2012
世界記録のコメント

We had a good go at it guys. When I first discussed the world record attempt for “most comments on an online news post” with the Guinness World Records® people there was no record in place. We came in at 5,455 comments in 24 hours. Unfortunately in the meantime a Japanese pop star – don’t [...]

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CES Las Vegas – the non report #CES

January 10, 2012
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I’ve been keeping an eye on proceedings at the Consumer Electronics Show in ‘Vegas1 . So far it’s a bit disappointing really. I guess we are all used to a rapid pace of change and when it doesn’t keep accelerating we think something is amiss. This year I suspect the change is going to come when [...]

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