From the monthly archives:

April 2005

Convergent September

April 29, 2005

Proximus en Mobistar binnenkort ADSL-leveranciers:
Volgens de Frantalige krant Le Soir, bereiden Proximus en Mobistar de lancering voor van een ADSL-abonnement tegen het einde van dit jaar. Gezien de dominerende positie van Belgacom en Telenet op de particuliere markt, zou dit idee verrassend kunnen lijken op het eerste zicht, maar ze weerspiegelt in feite wel de [...]

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Belgian football and broadband

April 29, 2005

Belgacom targeting Versatel for take-over.
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Mobile voice pricing compression we may see as data goes flat rate

April 29, 2005

Swissom just launched a flat-rate data package for mobile users at 79 CHF or 51 €. At this price you get 1GB of data inclusive, with a 0,3 € per MB charge for overage. And when you realise that Skype uses 40kbps up and down, thjis means you get something like 1,700 Skype minutes, [...]

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Track me down

April 28, 2005

Stefan did it again, Plazes implented now a ‘where have you been on wifi’ tracker. Here’s my interactive map.
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Skype payphone

April 28, 2005

Philippe Torrone of Make Magazine is building it.
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Cisco (Linksys) goes full steam VoIP

April 28, 2005

Cisco buys the Sipura technology and will be fiercely extending it’s current line of VoIP devices. Interesting times ahead, Karel.
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Panajane goes Copa

April 28, 2005

Copa when visiting Central & South America: say hi to Jane when you would recognise her (by her nails).
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Rhapsody launched

April 27, 2005

Rhapsody is not yet available in EU
Rhapsody Unlimited is a dramatically enhanced version of the highly acclaimed Rhapsody service. In addition to streaming an unlimited amount of music, Rhapsody Unlimited subscribers can now download an unlimited number of songs to their PC’s hard drive from Rhapsody’s library of more than one million songs, and enjoy [...]

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Tech PR

April 27, 2005

Translating the Apple PR message of the Macromedia takeover. Wink to Claudia.
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Skype launches API

April 26, 2005

Look what Skype is doing with it’s API. Expect a white hot Developer zone in matter of weeks. This is a historic move for Skype of which telco’s fail to see the importance and danger.
“We offer the Skype API to expand quality voice and messaging communications around the globe,” said Niklas Zennström, Skype [...]

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