Telecomms: January 2008 Archives

Qtrax is getting alot of air time discussion on Irish radio. I was on Tipp fm this morning to explain how mp3 quality is a function of file size and the size of your MP3 player and your broadband speed will determine the size and the quality of your mp3 files.

The key feature that Qtrax is missing is the ability to transfer tracks onto an mp3 player and play them. Qtrax will run on a windows XP or Vista PC and as of March 18th will run on the Mac OS. The Qtrax desktop app will keep track of the number of plays and royalty payments will be partly based on this info. Qtrax also plan to implement an advertising model, details of this are sketchy but will come apparent once Qtrax goes on release on midnight EST

The Carphone Warehouse is a store that sell telphones and associated products. It is no longer possible to obtain the telphone number for their stores from head office.

This may seem crazy, but it is true as of Tue 22nd Jan 2008. If you have a telephone number for a carphone warehouse store, please leave a comment with the associated number for the store branch. I will publish a list of these stores. This action may incur the wrath of the carphone warehouse.

IMAP is a very useful protocol for collecting and sending email. It is the defacto standard for corporate email Microsoft Exchange servers. Nokia have released apps for their S60 series phones that can connect to exchange servers via IMAP. For a variety of security reasons corporate entities often choose to have IMAP access only to their email systems.

Therefore It was very annoying to discover that the Irish mobile phone operator three do not allow IMAP access from their handsets. They only allow POP access, why is this the case?

My professional opinion cannot fathom a reason for this short sighted approach.