Steve Kennedy

I have over 20 years' experience in the Telecoms/Internet/Mobile industries. I was involved with internet in the UK before it had a commercial presence, internet streaming from its beginning (he was the first UK Real Networks customer), and set-up the first Internet Dance Radio Station (Gaialive.com). I was also involved with the first netcast of BigBrother (UK). I am an acknowledged "independent Industry expert" and uses those abilities in consulting and working with a number of investment partners on various projects. I also am a freelance journalist writing on technology subjects. I'm also a Director of UKEC Ltd - the UK ENUM Consortium that is the governing body for ENUM in the UK.

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Virgin’s going cheap

Virgin Mobile is launching today (9th Feb 2009) a tarrif for £8.50 per month which includes a phone, 100 minutes and 100 texts. Internet...

Stephen Fry tops Twitter (well almost)

Stephen Fry now over 100,000 followers, only out ranked by Obama himelf. Kevin Rose seemed quite upset when Mr Fry overtook him (in a past...

Google makes book mobile

Google has launched its mobile books service whereby the 1.5m books that it has scanned are available to mobile users as well as traditional...

Nokia releases SMS cleaner

Nokia has released a program that will clear a s60 phone that has been infected with the specially crafted SMS message. Once installed the system...

Google Maps know where you are

Google has just released Latitude their update to Google Maps that allows you to know where your friends are. You can get the software for...

Betavine gives away £20,000

Betavine (which is run by Vodafone as their "open" development site) held their 2 year party last week and pre-announced their Opera Widget competition...

iPhones like Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg stated that 25m users are accessing Facebook via Facebook Mobile each month. The mobile user base has jumped to 15m. The are 1.64m...

4 Total Hotspots after 72 hours

Well the Total Hotspots application which is a customised version of the Rummble iPhone app has jumped to position 4 in the Utility section...

Flash for iPhone – not imminent

Though Adobe announced they were working on Flash for the iPhone in Oct 2008, they've admitted it's not that easy and it will still...

Vodafone needs to use Voodoo to boost sales of Blackberry Storm – UPDATED

We've modified this piece after feedback from Vodafone. Old Story: Vodafone initially saw the Blackberry Storm storm off the shelves at the rate of 20,000 per...

Last.fm available on Android

Last.fm have released a mobile client for Android allowing users to stream their music choices. However it's meant to show the deficiency of the...

Ofcom overruled by Competition Commission

Ofcom was planning to reduce the termination charges of the UK MNOs to 5.1p per minute by 2010/2011. Now the Competition Commission have ruled...

Nokia makes 2 calls into 1

Nokia Siemens Networks have been trialling software upgrades to cellsite basestations and basestation controllers that allow 2 calls per timeslot instead of 1 by...

New Card format holds 2TB

The SD Association released the specification for a new format SD card known as SDXC which can hold up to 2TB of information. They...

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