RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin

The final encierro of Sanfermin 2008 was successful, without any injuries, although it did take 5.1 minutes, approximately 3 minutes longer than normal.
The bull, locally from the ganadería of Induráin was brave, fast and was able to stay on his feet (wheels) while taking the Curva of Estafeta.
Below you can see the full encierro, courtesy […]

When the 14th of July comes in Pamplona, it means only one thing - Pobre De Mí.
This years Pobre De Mí was, well, as always, a sad occasion. Below is the video.

Ya falta menos! Viva Sanfermín! Gora Sanfermín!

Pat Phelan of Cubic Telecom, and Roam4Free fame is off in Vancouver at the moment and he sent back for news from the coalface.
Cubic Telecom and Celtrak Global Roaming are joining technical and logistic forces to release new services to overcome the monoply traditional mobile operators have had in the roaming/long-distance calling business since the […]

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 […]

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. […]