Posted on October 1, 2007 4:18 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
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…
Posted on September 27, 2007 4:17 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Cut from FIR #279: How GM handled the UAW strike on its Fastlane blog.
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Posted on September 27, 2007 1:11 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
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;…
Posted on September 25, 2007 7:53 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Social Networking
Shel and Neville will be presenting two FIR episodes together next week during Shel???s UK visit.
Not only that, we???re planning an FIR Geek Dinner on Friday October 5. Both our wives will be there, too.
The dinner will be in Windsor starting at about 7.30pm. Venue not yet fixed—we???ll have it confirmed by the end of this week—but it will be within easy reach…
Posted on September 25, 2007 1:02 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Cut from FIR #278: American workers may want to think a second before opening emails from their manager. According to a new national survey by the Marlin Company, 10% of employees say their company has fired or laid off employees by email. To avoid the discomfort of a face to face conversation, emails are becoming the chosen method of communication.…
Posted on September 25, 2007 1:01 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Cut from FIR #278: Gartner declared open-source software the biggest disruptor the software industry has ever seen and postulated it will eventually result in cheaper software and new business models. Neville reports.
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