Back at the end of 2007, as we dived into the trough of the Great Recession or Great Financial Crisis or Second Great Depression or what you will, a crucial decision was taken. Verizon Wireless, then still a Vodafone division, chose LTE for its new mobile network, and put one of the most important women…
Read More Ten Years of 4G: Trump, Snowden, Huawei, and BrexitIt’s fairly well known that a lot of the productivity gap between the UK and other industrial countries is accounted for by a long tail of unusually unproductive small businesses (see ONS data here). This fascinating piece in the FT covers a project to do something about that by getting them management advice. An interesting…
Read More Where do UK SMEs get technology advice?Remember this post from 2006, and especially this one from a year later on the next big miscarriage of justice? Well, look what just happened. It’s far worse than even I thought – the police were well aware that there were serious problems with the Landslide case as early as February, 2003. Specifically, the old…
Read More A regrettable breach of security regulationsIt is now reasonably certain that I’ll be in Palo Alto from Saturday evening to Thursday evening. I’m going to be carless but close to a CalTrain station, if that helps anyone. The explanation is of course here. Update: I will be here from 6pm tonight with some bloggers.
Read More fake tales of San Francisco echo through the airI’m going to America. Specifically, I’ll be organising Telco 2.0 Americas in Orlando on the 9th and 10th of December. Then, I’ve got a two-and-a-half day layover in a hotel with marching ducks. The prose is worth quoting: In a special elevator, the five North American mallard ducks, four hens and one drake, comprising The…
Read More submarine, cocktail party, etcThe blog is going to call in Amsterdam this week. I’m going to be attending eComm, the less tiresome telecoms conference. Readers there are welcome to meet up; I’d also be interested in recommendations of anything, really, as I haven’t been there since 1996, and using the various hangouts referenced in Charlie Stross novels as…
Read More the problem with a submarine is that there’s nowhere to have a decent cocktail partyI often miss chunks of the humour at the Stiftung because I would rather do almost anything than watch US business-spot TV news. If you wanted to hide something from me, you could do worse than put it next to a TV tuned to CNBC. But I think I experienced something of the culture the…
Read More talking without speaking; speaking without talkingI may not be blogging 3GSM for this blog, but you can look at the pictures on Flickr, here.
Read More photosI’ll be at 3GSM, sorry, MWC in Barcelona from Sunday evening to Thursday morning.
Read More 3GSM, sorry MWCJust to explain my absence, first of all I’ve been changing ISPs – you may recall I promised to give Virgin Media the push. Bogons Ltd – Internet for the Clueful were tapped after the normal exhaustive procurement process, and I spent last Sunday afternoon setting up an ADDON ARM8200 modem/router to work with my…
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