2006 February at RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin

Archive for February, 2006

Lots of new things happening at Fon

0 Comments Published by bbt February 8th, 2006 in bernard

Since the announcement on Sunday evening, that Fon have secured €18M investment from Skype, Google, Index Ventures and Sequoia, a whole lot of new things have popped up on the fon websites, both Spanish, English, and French.
Firstly, the amount of media coverage being generated by the news release on Sunday has exploded! Google News has […]

Blogawards-RunningWithBulls is in two categories

1 Comment Published by bbt February 7th, 2006 in bernard, irish politics, irishblogs, personal, runningwithbulls.com

RunningWithBulls.com has been listed in the 2006 BlogAwards.
Best Blog/Blogger - Runningwithbulls.com
Best Blog Post - Running with Bulls - Post removed by Lawyers
The best blog post was a contraversial post. I will be explaining this in the next few days…for those who are not aware of it.
If you feel that RunningWithBulls.com is the best […]

VOIP: Test your VOIP bandwidth

0 Comments Published by bbt February 6th, 2006 in bernard, internet, irishblogs, runningwithbulls.com, tech, voip

I came across this useful bandwidth tool from Shane.
Looking at an Eircom DSL line of 4Mb:256Kb (down:up) the possible simultaneous VOIP calls available would be 3 (Using codec G.729).
Obviously not enough for a telephone heavy company.

FON: €18M investment to build the wifi revolution.

0 Comments Published by bbt February 5th, 2006 in bernard, fon, internet, irishblogs, runningwithbulls.com, wifi

I had to sit on the information I received last week from Antoin, Ireland’s Chief Fonero. I thought it was on the national scale, but finding out, later…holy moly!
Martin Varsavsky has repleased the information: Fon have received €18M from Google, Skype, Sequoia Capital, and Index Ventures.
I will leave Martin’s post do the talking!
The peddle is […]