Archive for February, 2008:
Youtube pushed off the air
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In between browsing Facebook and Youtube, the UK economy generates $1,930,000,000 of output a year. Thats $550,000 every two and a half hours. Well if today had been a work day, there’d have been one two and a half hour period where that was much higher. That’s because in a pique of [...]
Life after email
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The death of email has already been predicted on approximately 1,258,926 blogs, so I barely need to recount the chant that IM is already replacing regular conversation, social networking manages infrequent messaging between your peers and introduces you to new business partners, and that web forums are how the population now find out information. Email [...]
Internationalisation of DNS continues
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Like most original internet standards, the DNS was designed to initially suit the needs of any section of the world that could communicate using 7-bit ASCII and Latin character sets. Then the internet became really popular. Everywhere. The DNS had to evolve to cope with naming schemes that came from alphabets all [...]
Vodafone’s legal challenge to fast porting.
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I tried to open some dialogue with colleague members of the ITSPA about Vodafone’s legal challenge to Ofcom’s two-hour number port ruling. Instead I got a number of offlist replies suggesting Vodafone’s challenge is still news to many in the industry.
Today, if you want to port your number from one service provider to another, it [...]
