In just seventeen months as T-Mobile CEO, John Legere has seen his “Uncarrier” strategy add 4.4 million subscribers. Uncarrier is an awkward name for a carrier who does not behave like one. So if you’re on T-Mobile, you won’t have a contract, you’ll have cheaper bills because there are no more built-in phone subsidies, upgrades are […]
Once again I was a s-h-one-t blogger this year. I think I’ve become far too concerned with offending or rubbing people up the wrong way (rubbing up against people is actually a lot of fun) so often refrain from posting my sometimes-obtuse views. Maybe in 2013 I can shed my tender skin and reveal the […]
Every time you enter America as a non-immigrant you have to make a series of declarations about your background and your physical and mental well-being so the state feel assured that you are an asset to them and not a mad man of some sort. Now some of these questions make sense such as whether or […]
Undemocracy News out of Ireland this week is that it is undemocratic to be given a vote on the future of your country. Declan Ganley, a millionaire businessman whose opposition to the Lisbon Treaty saw him become a TV star along the lines of X-Factor or something, said: “The Irish people had a vote on […]
There’s the usual pre-Christmas buzz about Football Manager at the moment but – as I blogged before – I absolutely refuse to pay over the odds for it. After a month or so of websites advertising price points of £25-30, Zavvi decided to test the mettle of the impatient buyers who already pre-ordered by selling it […]
Championship Manager (CM) was the all-conquering football management game franchise until the original creators, Sports Interactive, left the fold. They went on to regenerate the Football Manager brand and have topped the charts since 2004 while CM has floundered with a series of much-criticised releases. CM skipped their 2008 release in order to concentrate on […]
Tom Dunne – musician, broadcaster, journalist, humanitarian, impressionist. The former musician has carved a nice little niche for himself as the housewife’s favourite on Irish radio with latest listenership figures suggesting that about 69,000 people are tuning in from 9am to midday, Monday to Friday. Who is Tom Dunne? He forged a successful pop career […]
To the universe I don’t mean a thing Whether it’s posting messages of support online for troubled celebrities we’ve never met or putting up posters of missing children in a local rural post office thousands of miles from the abduction, people have a genetic disposition to belong, to be identified with something. I guess that’s […]
It’s the release day of the most popular and successful football management game franchise of all time, “Football Manager 2009” (née “Championship Manager”). Having sold millions of units since the early 1990s, the mere announcement of a game is enough to guarantee a #1 hit across Europe and that’s what will probably happen again. In […]
Sarah Palin – the woman who makes George Bush look open-minded and knowledgable – lept to her own defence following comments from the John McCain team which didn’t paint her in the most flattering light. It was alleged that she thought Africa was a country rather than a continent and that she could not name […]
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