Archive | August, 2011

Virgin Media grows a good pair of WiFi balls

By on August 2, 2011 in Services

I was delighted to see that Virgin Media’s CEO, Neil Berkett, is aiming to ‘take a punt’ on London-wide-WiFi (quoted in The Telegraph). About flipping time. Save us from BT-flipping-Openzone. Anyone who wants to charge PER MINUTE for dog-slow-rubbish-paltry-almost-helpful WiFi service deserves some serious competition. It is utter shite, BT Openzone. I don’t think I’ve [...]

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£70 for 50GB iCloud storage? Yup, I’m in!

By on August 2, 2011 in Applications

Mr Dredge over at Mobile Entertainment notes that today Apple revealed their iCloud pricing. I’ve been waiting for this. I’m sure you have too. Whilst Steve’s iCloud pitch looked rather exciting, in the back of my mind, I was wondering what would happen after I (easily) exceeded the 5GB free storage he mentioned. I do [...]

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iPhone 5 due in October. November. September. July. Tomorrow.

By on August 1, 2011 in Devices

Oh I just can’t take it anymore. Come on, journalists, come on bloggers, know the next generation of iPhone is definitely a really exciting happening, but please! It’s getting rather frustrating now. Every time somebody in Silicon Valley sneezes, it seems we’ve got another rumour announcing a launch date. It’s definitely September. Oh yes. Definitely [...]

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Is your Vodafone Glasgow 3G data not working either?

By on August 1, 2011 in Operators

The capacity crunch is well and truly biting for Vodafone in Glasgow it seems. Reader Squawkbox tweeted today asking if I knew anyone on the network side at Vodafone to help out. I have been thinking carefully — alas, I’m not sure I do. I wonder. If you’re reading, and you manage Vodafone’s data network [...]

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Vodafone’s marketing SMS leaves me clueless

Vodafone’s marketing SMS leaves me clueless

By on August 1, 2011 in News

So last week I was having a good time with Vodafone. This morning I got this comparatively useless text to let me know that ‘prices are changing’.   This is really good — a text update, I will obviously read it — but the call-to-action? Visit some site that isn’t even linkable from my phone browser? Who [...]

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