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…
This is where I’ll be this weekend. Checking Gmail now and again. Phone on. More Twitter than blog. Hope to see you there!
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?)
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…
The City of Manchester football stadium – home to Manchester City FC – will soon be the first football ground in the world to be powered by sustainable energy when an 85-metre-high 3-megawatt wind turbine comes online next year. When it’s fully operational, it will supply enough energy to meet…
If you have Windows Vista Ultimate, one of the cool features is Ultimate Extras and in particular, Dreamscene: Windows Ultimate Extras are add-ons that extend certain capabilities of your operating system or just make using your PC more fun. Windows Ultimate Extras currently available include: Windows DreamScene, an Extra that…
With a fast-moving current event such as what’s happening in Burma at the moment, real-time media such as TV and radio are the best way to keep up with events. Yet what’s happening as seen through the eyes of mainstream TV and the voice of radio isn’t likely to reflect…
The latest version of the WordPress blogging platform was released late yesterday. New version 2.3 offers a wide range of enhancements and new features, including: Tagging Automatic notification of updated plugins Automatic notification when new WP versions are released Much better management of posts and draft posts Improvements to the…
