Telecom

Today was a very important day, as I finally defended my Phd Thesis under the title “Resource Optimizations in Broadcast enabled Networks”. I was probably a bit nervous as the defense was about the start, as shown in the above …

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So I’ve had a Nokia E51 for less then a week, and all I can say is: “Where is the symbian store ?” Compared to the Apple Store where I can get tons of applications for my iPod Touch, or the recently announced store …

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After less then a year of usage my SE w580 has failed me… the cursor right key doesn’t work which makes it pretty hard to navigate in the main screen and to write sms with symbols and using T9. Luckly enough my father had a …

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As you might have noticed, I’ve been really busy in the last few months as C-Mobile project reached it’s end, and some demos had to be delivered :) I can say that my team did a good job and to show their good work we have …

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The Telecom Operators that relied in voice services are dead. And today’s operators fight for their own existence in a world dominated by the Web 2.0 where services can be created, combined in matter of day’s if not hours by …

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In the last decade, tech evangelist praised the value of “Content” as the real value in todays and future technological society. The truth couldn’t be any further from those predictions. The value of music has dropped to …

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After more then a month carefully choosing my new cellphone, I choose none of the candidates. Instead I went with the Sony Ericsson w580i, which actually belongs to the same family as the S500i but has walkman capabilities, and most …

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I’m in the market for a new cellphone. My requirements are for: Clam or Slider form-factor Bluetooth Highspeed modem (>EDGE) around 300€ (less would be good :)) So far my choice is between these two: The Motorola v3xx @ vodafone …

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Realiza-se no próximo dia 9 de Julho em Aveiro o workshop “Televisão Móvel: Tecnologia e Informação do Futuro”. Sem dúvida a não perder. Mais informação

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Well, thats not true… But hey! Grabbed your attention didn’t I ? Today is the US launch of the iPhone, for the Europeans this means at least half a year waiting… According to the news, Vodafone will be the chosen carrier …

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What to do ? dgomes@#######:~$ traceroute www.google.com traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 66.249.93.99 traceroute to www.l.google.com (66.249.93.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 gtav.it.pt (193.136.93.1) …

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My friend Alfredo was reading a recent IETF draft on Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) when suddenly we noticed an interesting phrase out of the blue: in line 820: “Going to buy an iPhone?” But it was not all, afterwards I …

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After a long (and expensive) phone call with my father, we both realized that it made little sense in our days to use a GSM network while at home. That said we figured out that voipbuster was the best service in town: free calls, SIP based …

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