Paul Jacobson

Tag: Companies

  • Europcar: "Screw you! We don't take your kind!"

    I am just a little pissed at Europcar today. I booked my flight to Cape Town and car hire on kulula.com. The car hire is done through Europcar which seems to be Kulula’s car hire partner. The bookings went smoothly and I even got discounts on both my air fare and care hire because I…

  • Orchestrated Axxess to my bank account?

    Update (2013-10-28): I replaced the original screenshot of the Axxess page with their current logo at their request. I’ve been using Axxess DSL for my ADSL access since I first started using ADSL a couple years ago. We use a lot of data and average between 20GB and 25GB on good months. The price per…

  • Is Apple the new Evil Empire?

    Apple has come under a fair amount of scrutiny in recent weeks due to its vetting process for the App Store. The biggest controversy has been Apple’s apparent rejection of the Google Voice app. A number of Web personalities have taken a strong anti-Apple stance due to these practices and what they regard as Apple’s…

  • Nokia's Booklet 3G: deeper into the Microsoft rabbit hole

    I’ve just started seeing reports about the Nokia Booklet 3G netbook. It is a pretty swish looking 10.1″ netbook that will probably sync effortlessly with your Nokia device and provide you with a range of lightweight mobile connectivity options. It looks like a great little product and seemingly part of a strategy designed, at least…

  • Google Reader is becoming the most useful social connector

    I have just returned from a RSS hiatus. The weather was fine and the conversation on Twitter and FriendFeed has been great but I just wasn’t consuming much of the 800-odd feeds I currently subscribe to. So what I did was set up a Google Reader instance using Fluid.app (in other words, I have a…

  • Microsoft and Nokia announce alliance

    I am about to participate in a webcast press conference where Nokia and Microsoft are announcing an alliance of sorts. I am was going to cover this in FriendFeed and will embed have embedded the channel in this post (yes, FriendFeed is still going and I am still a fan …). Our speakers/presenters:

  • Facebook friends FriendFeed

    By now you have probably heard about Facebook’s FriendFeed acquisition. I first heard about it when TechCrunch published a quick post last night about the acquisition and more news started to appear within the next half hour or so. The short version is that Facebook has paid $50 million in cash and Facebook shares for…

  • Looking under the hood – the Symbian OS

    I have been given an opportunity to chat to David Rivas, Nokia’s Vice President Product & Technology Management about the Symbian operating system. There has been quite a lot of talk about how shoddy the series 60 user interface is and it got me wondering about the operating system itself, under the UI, so I…