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For work we use Checkpoints VPN-1 SecureClient (NIRA VPN) access for remote secure connection to the corporate network.
We also use iPass for assured WiFi connection to multi-vendor WiFi networks.
This week in Helsinki I was staying in the Radisson SAS hotel (great as always), and was trying to use the Sonera “homerun” WiFi network.
My laptop was […]

I thought this was my mistake, but it seems like its setup by Vodafone.
Vodafone give subscribers 300 free text messages when they log into their website. A simple-ish web interface. Enter the message and the number and Bob’s your uncle (of course they don’t guarantee delivery, but hea, thats all SMS traffic anyway..more or less).
But […]

My Cubic Telecom WiFi/GSM phone arrived yesterday. Thank you Pat for sending one on to me. I promise I won’t drop it in the loo

Cubic Telecom, I’m sure is pretty famous now within the various blogging/t’Internet circles.
The Cubic phone, Pirelli Discus DualPhone DP L10, is manufactured by Pirelli, yes the tyre […]

The Economist has a very good article on the current state and future of big telecoms hardware manufacturers (the Alcatel-Lucents, the Ericssons, the Nokia Siemens Networks, the Huaweis, the ZTC, the Nortels etc), specifically Alcatel-Lucent’s results and their plan for the future.
The Economist has it spot on. AlcaCent’s news in September disappointed its saying they […]

NTT DoCoMo admits to crisis over subscriber losses: “A senior executive at NTT DoCoMo said on Thursday the Japanese mobile carrier is in crisis over subscriber losses in the last year.”
NTT DoCoMo admits to crisis over subscriber losses: “Despite the subscriber losses NTT DoCoMo isn’t in danger of losing its top spot anytime soon. With […]

I don’t normally make any comment on Dave Winer’s views on things, sometimes I agree with him, sometimes I don’t.
But this time he is smack bang on:

Standards devised by one tech company whose main purpose is to undermine another tech company, usually don’t work.
……What would be exciting and uplifting, a real game-changer — Internet […]

I’ll be in Helsinki for work on the week of the 5th of Nov - 9th Nov.
There is also a Mobile Monday event happening the Monday night. Anyone interested in meeting a having a beer..?
It’ll be my 30th birthday that night, so I might be either drowning my sorrows, or celebrating for another 30 years. […]

…and now they have cleanerd the egg off it.
Earlier today Damien made a pretty interesting furutistic post on the GoogleNet and GooglePCs.
Interesting, might happen, but mostly, a good read of a possibility.
He posted a question about Ace Marketing stealing his content regarding the post on Jaiku.
Daithi also mentioned it, giving it some traction.
What happened? Well […]