from wavelinks#6 april 2001 WAP, SMS and PDAs are discreet; voice calls on mobiles in public places are not. In fact, they are becoming more intrusive socially than smoking ever was. Over the past five years (1996-2001) I have carried out a personal non-scientific study into mobile phone usage on the Dublin Area Rapid Transit…
Category: technology
Revolutions at the Speed of Light
back in 2000 / 2001 i wrote an ezine for esearch.ie / newsweaver, over the next few posts some of the best bits on the 18 editions of wavelinks. from march 2001 Revolutions at the Speed of Light While the mobile is primarily a business tool, its secondary uses are for anything but business. Never…
Bluetooth invades Maxol
siliconrepublic.com reports http://url.ie/275 “Capitalising on the recent legislation to ban holding a mobile phone while driving, the handset manufacturer Plantronics has done a deal with Maxol to sell wireless headsets in its petrol station forecourts around the country.” 8< not so many years ago when pump pricing began to get wired underground from pump to…
understanding smart moves
Smart Telecom is leaving behind the landline only business. But why? and why are they remaining in the broadband market where they have number portability issues. This has shades of the NTL phone collapse in 2003. A privatised phone system in Ireland is again failing the citizens of Ireland while the copper has been speculated…
any one for chess
dutch hackers (whitehats?) break into Nedap voting machines Live on television in Holland. [rte report] Dr. Minister Roche, the children of Ireland could use these voting machine as chess teaching machines, would you consider taking them out of expensive storage and touring the country with them (yes you can come along with these machines for…
Eircom drop broadband price
mine is down €10 a month (or so it says) so this is the same price as eircom anytime at 29.99 a month? for 150 hours pstn 33/56Kbits/s ?
Energy Crisis – Free Energy from Ireland
today Make Blog has two projects that could keep the bailiffs away from the door this cold dark winter. Shake it like a Tic-Tac! (Rechargeable led flashlight powered by magnets in a Tic-Tac case) or try a “Self charging LED cactus” me, I will unplug the door bell, make a crystal radio & tune to…
Sony v Lidl dictaphone
I wanted a Sony ICD-MX20 Digital Voice Recorder but the Harvey Normal sales guy sent me to Lidl where dictation machines are €14.99 this morning. Sinead in work picked up the MX20 with 2GB card this evening, but the Lidl offer at the other end of the spectrum is interesting. What could you do for…
its not magic
“Smart Telecom plc is an Irish company, which is committed to attracting, retaining and developing the best people in a fast moving telecommunications industry.” source “Your phone number 18321xxx is serviced by the SUTTON exchange. This exchange is not on the Smart Broadband Network Build Programme. Please check back again at a later date.” “Welcome…