Irish Courts To Rule On Smart Telecom 3G License

Smart Telecom will learn today the fate of their proposed 3G license when the High Court rules in Dublin as to whether the troubled telecoms company can retain its license. ComReg (affectionately now known as the Telecoms Poodle in certain circles) had withdrawn the phone license from Smart due to problems surrounding a bond due to be paid by Smart to the tune of €100m.

Smart recently had its phone service cut by Eircom due to unpaid bills and despite spending millions on advertising, the company remains with just 17,000 broadband customers and debts of €40m.

Via RTE…

This afternoon, shareholders will vote on a proposed takeover of the company by businessman Brendan Murtagh.

Mr Murtagh is proposing a rescue package to buy the company for E1 and take on the liabilities. It would give him control of Smart’s network and 17,000 broadband customers. 40,000 residential phone customers of Smart were recently disconnected because Smart owed Eircom E4m.

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Paul Simon Tickets Now On eBay

Those Paul Simon tickets I mentioned before the weekend are now listed on eBay if you’re interested….

2 X Seated, Block A (Ground Floor), Row WW (Set one)

2 X Seated, Block A (Ground Floor), Row WW (Set two)

If you’re interested in all four tickets, the seats are all together. Tickets available for collection in Kilkenny City or posted immediately via registered mail.

3 Announce Christmas Handsets

3 have announced their Christmas handset releases for the UK which includes the Nokia 6280, already available on the 3 network in Ireland.

This holiday season they’ll be stocking

• Sony Ericsson W950i
• Nokia 6280
• Motorola MotoRAZRV3xx
• LG U310
• LG U830
• Sony Ericsson K610i

If you”re interested, the K610i is already available on 3 in Ireland for €199 on pay-as-you-go, the Nokia 6280 for €279 (same plan).

Tom Tom Navigator 6 Review

Steve Litchfield at All About Symbian has a great review of Tom Tom Navigator 6 for the S60 based phones. The review show how Tom Tom “garners enormous respect and a pretty high score” even if it pays no heed to S60 style designs and doesn’t exactly have the greatest support for non-standard S60 displays.

Complete with straight comparisons to Navigator 5 and fully loaded with screenshots, you can read the review right here.

Windows Live Mobile Edition Launches

Microsoft today launched Windows Live for mobile at http://mobile.live.com (or http://www.live.mobi).

The service lets you get access to the most familiar Live elements through your mobile including

• Live Mail
• MSN Messenger
• Live Calendar
• Fox Sports
• RSS Feeds

You can also customise your own Live landing page much in the same way that you would with Google.com/ig. More via MobileCrunch.

Of course… you’ve still got to pay to use Live Messenger! That and browsing to Mobile.live.com via your PC will lead you to http://ideas.live.com, something which is starting to look a lot more like Google Labs.

4x Tickets For Paul Simon (Seated)

Here’s the story, I’ve got 4 tickets for Paul Simon, sold out, in The Point on Wednesday November 8th. Turns out one of us going is stuck in Dundalk, one is now stuck elsewhere in Dublin on the night and one won’t go if the others can’t go so I’m not going to take up 4 seats by myself!!

Bottom line, I’m selling the tickets, face value (inc booking fee) so you’re looking at €350 for the four. I will also sell them in two sets of two tickets, at €175 for a pair. They’ll be posted by registered (insured) priority mail. Offer on the blog will close on Sunday as I’m going to list them on eBay after the weekend.

If you’re interested, or you know someone who is looking to go, then let me know. Love to see them get to a fan. Bloody missed him the weekend he played in Kilkenny for the Source festival and I’m gutted to give them up but there you go!

Follow Up: Eamon Dunphy Press Release

Just a followup to yesterday’s post on Eamon Dunphy’s new made for mobile show, here’s 3’s press release via 3G.co.uk (photos too).

Made For Mobile - Eamon Dunphy

Ireland’s ‘Love Him Or Hate Him’ soccer pundit and radio DJ, Eamon Dunphy, has signed a deal with 3 for a made-for-mobile soccer show streaming live from Dunphy’s sitting room on Mondays with a small show on Friday to build up the weekend’s games, according to IOL.

The show borrows the name from his old Today FM evening show, The Last Word, now chaired by Matt Cooper and will be called “Dunphy’s Last Word On Football”, covering the real ins and outs of the week in Premier League football.

Speaking about the show, Dunphy said

I’m looking forward to broadcasting my views to a new mobile audience and for the first time I’ll be giving Irish football fans a chance to have the last word with their own video comments. Join me on 3 for the real action on the pitch.

One Take Sessions Blog Launches

I’ve launched the blog for the One Take Sessions which start under KilkennyMusic.com on November 2nd in ID (formerly The Widows) on Parliament Street in Kilkenny and run every third Thursday night, commencing each night around 9:30pm.

One Take serves as an open night for solo performers and bands, though acts are able to reserve 20-minute timeslots prior to each session. The reason behind calling it ‘One Take’ is that each act is recorded and looked after by one of our engineers on the night and are then able to pick up a finalised copy of their performance for distribution within a week.

Selected tracks from each night then go forth to the Sound System Podcast, whose second show should hit the net this coming weekend (pending a final mixdown on Saturday).

If there’s any bloggers out there who happen to play a bit of music and are interested in getting up on the stage then by all means let me know!

Note: You can subscribe via Feedburner to the One Take Sessions RSS feed and yes, James, the OPML file (see also previous post) has been updated to include this latest publication

Finger-printing Is The New Pub ID

Forget your passport, forget your age card, forget your drivers license - finger-printing is going to be all the rage, or so it seems, in the UK in an attempt to “reduce drunken disorder by fingerprinting drinkers in the town centre.”

The one question I have to ask… are they for real??

Full story via TJ McIntyre

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