Archives for September 2007

Irish tech start-up Cubic Telecom wowed participants at the recent TechCrunch 40 conference in San Francisco with their MAXRoam SIM card for mobile phones. The company claims it's the world's first universal SIM card offering favourable roaming and call rates anywhere in the world. Cubic is now poised to launch Cubic Mobile in October, a dual mode GSM/WiFi phone which uses the MAXRoam SIM card to enable users to roam anywhere in the world at low mobile rates as well as make free calls in … [Read more...] about FIR Interview – Conor O’Neill, LouderVoice: September 29, 2007

Overflow from today's FIR #279: How GM handled the UAW strike on its Fastlane blog. If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they're published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?) … [Read more...] about Cut from FIR #279

Content summary: Shel's in Chicago; Neville's getting ready for PodCamp Ireland, Shel for PME and UK trip; update on FIR Geek Dinner plans; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Shel reports on the Ragan unconference; Armani opens store in Second Life; new global corporate climate change reports from the Carbon Disclosure Project; Nintendo fires employee for blogging; Yahoo to close podcasting site; Carefree Dan York reports from the AstriCon conference; listeners' comments discussion; … [Read more...] about The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #279: September 27, 2007