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A friend of ours, who is a regularly reader of our Weird Telecom posts, sent us this along for your viewing pleasure. We know it’s hard to think that folks would move cable reels into buildings this way but believe us it happens more than you can imagine—hopefully with a bit more planning than these guys.
Continue reading ‘Rollin’’ »
You might recall from prior scribblings here we fiddled about with a new TLD that holds out hope to create a global address book.
Signing up for a .tel domain is rather a no-brainer. A number of providers will happily sell you a unique domain that can be used to display your information. Filling in the data is also straight forward, .tel is both a registry and a micro-domain. All data resides in a single site and your data entry is largely fill in the blank. You can see our .tel domain at Shulist Group .tel site. A cool feature is that the site will allow you to extract a vcard for your address book. You can also control who gets your data.
While all possible steps we’re taken to allow legitimate domain owners to get access to their names (corporations had months to register before the floodgates were opened) it seems that a good number of domain names were scooped up on spec. The problem will be to get a short name so that it is easy to distribute.
So if you want your own .tel domain you should sign up soon. It’s one more way to connect with the world.
I had great memories of the wonderful things that Nortel developed over the years. It’s too bad it’s come down to this;
In a recent trip to Russia we were amazed by the contradiction of terms in the urban setting. In a country so obsessed by mobile technology it was weird to see ancient drop wires seemily placed anywhere it was easy to do so.
Continue reading ‘Drop In Anytime’ »
In the category of “old is new again” there comes the fresh, new, waiting to be cracked, SimBook.
Continue reading ‘Simply SIM’ »
In the category of “what will they do next in prison?”, we have a story that is so Tony Soprano. It seems that prisoners in the San Paulo, Brazil state pen have managed to raise pigeons that are smuggled out of the prison and then returned with mobile phones attached to them after they have visited a local mobile phone shop.
Whatever happened to baking a phone into a birthday cake? Read the entire tale here at Associated Press.
We’d heard about this before and had filed the story in our digital to-do files some time ago. This is by far the coolest car any proud telecom person could drive.
Continue reading ‘Mobile Phone?’ »
We’re not quite sure how we let this one get through our telecom dragnet, but it appears that in a short time that you’ll be able to SMS your loved ones when you reach the summit of Everest.
Continue reading ‘Summit SMS’ »
In what has to be one of the most useless legal cases that ever reached the London docket was settled for the princely sum of £5.
Continue reading ‘Litigate Your Way To Success’ »
Just when you thought you were cool with your own i-Phone or Blackberry Storm you find out that you are so last year.
Continue reading ‘Toss Your Blackberry’ »
