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The wisdom of Phil Burgess, brought to you by the WSJ
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-11-04 18:32:04
Telstra's erstwhile mouthpiece, Phil Burgess, has been at it again, peddling his views on the Australian Government, the ACCC and Australian telecommunications in general to anyone who will give him a hearing and, preferably, disseminate his views to as wide an audience as possible.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-11-04 18:32:04
Telstra's erstwhile mouthpiece, Phil Burgess, has been at it again, peddling his views on the Australian Government, the ACCC and Australian telecommunications in general to anyone who will give him a hearing and, preferably, disseminate his views to as wide an audience as possible.
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Telstra unveils nowwearetalking's successor: Telstra Exchange
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-11-03 17:31:14
Telstra has unveiled a new blog site, Telstra Exchange, to replace its controversial Nowwearetalking web site, scrapped some months ago.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-11-03 17:31:14
Telstra has unveiled a new blog site, Telstra Exchange, to replace its controversial Nowwearetalking web site, scrapped some months ago.
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NZ research questions the value of high speed broadband
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-11-02 00:38:14
A New Zealand study has found that the productivity benefits businesses gain by moving to higher speed broadband are minimal compared to the gains by from implementing lower speed broadband services - but it admits to many significant uncertainties in its conclusions.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-11-02 00:38:14
A New Zealand study has found that the productivity benefits businesses gain by moving to higher speed broadband are minimal compared to the gains by from implementing lower speed broadband services - but it admits to many significant uncertainties in its conclusions.
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Minchin's attack on Samuel unwarranted
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-10-14 00:12:29
Shadow communications minister senator Nick Minchin has launched an extraordinary attack on ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel accusing him of "spruiking the Rudd Government's NBN proposal and its planned telecommunications regulatory reforms" in a way that "threatens to undermine the ACCC's role as an objective regulator."
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-10-14 00:12:29
Shadow communications minister senator Nick Minchin has launched an extraordinary attack on ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel accusing him of "spruiking the Rudd Government's NBN proposal and its planned telecommunications regulatory reforms" in a way that "threatens to undermine the ACCC's role as an objective regulator."
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Minchin claims Conroy and Tanner at odds over Telstra break-up
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-09-20 23:58:28
Shadow communications minister Nick Minchin claims that communications minister Stephen Conroy and finance minister Lindsay Tanner are at odds over the government's determination to wrest the HFC network and Foxtel stake from Telstra's grip, but the rules are set out in black and white in the bills now before parliament. Or are they...
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-09-20 23:58:28
Shadow communications minister Nick Minchin claims that communications minister Stephen Conroy and finance minister Lindsay Tanner are at odds over the government's determination to wrest the HFC network and Foxtel stake from Telstra's grip, but the rules are set out in black and white in the bills now before parliament. Or are they...
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Structural Separation: Conroy's second big surprise
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-09-15 00:33:54
The legislation announced today by communications minister Stephen Conroy goes further than most of the industry had expected "I keep checking that the date isn't 1st April" one CE commented). It's the second big surprise the minister has pulled out of the hat this year.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-09-15 00:33:54
The legislation announced today by communications minister Stephen Conroy goes further than most of the industry had expected "I keep checking that the date isn't 1st April" one CE commented). It's the second big surprise the minister has pulled out of the hat this year.
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Sara Ford – the Microsoft open source leader who gives and gives
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Education and Training
2009-09-10 09:32:19
Meet Sara Ford. She’s the program manager in charge of Microsoft’s answer to SourceForge, CodePlex. She’s also responsible for donating some $29,000 to families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Education and Training
2009-09-10 09:32:19
Meet Sara Ford. She’s the program manager in charge of Microsoft’s answer to SourceForge, CodePlex. She’s also responsible for donating some $29,000 to families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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Nowwearetalking, now we are glad that you are gone
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-09-07 01:06:16
Telstra has, without warning, closed down its controversial nowwearetalking website and will replace it with what it promises will be "a more engaging, interactive site under the main telstra.com umbrella." Few will mourn NWAT's passing.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-09-07 01:06:16
Telstra has, without warning, closed down its controversial nowwearetalking website and will replace it with what it promises will be "a more engaging, interactive site under the main telstra.com umbrella." Few will mourn NWAT's passing.
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YouTube dramatizes danger of texting and driving
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2009-09-02 08:18:32
A YouTube video from a police department in Gwent, Wales, dramatically shows the dangers of texting while driving a motorized vehicle.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2009-09-02 08:18:32
A YouTube video from a police department in Gwent, Wales, dramatically shows the dangers of texting while driving a motorized vehicle.
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Review: The pen that's mightier than the (written & spoken) word
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-17 22:55:24
This is one of the coolest and most useful gadgets I've come across in a long time: a pen with a built-in digital recorder and lots of other smarts that enables you to make notes during meetings, lectures etc and then access every word that was actually being spoken when you made your note.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-17 22:55:24
This is one of the coolest and most useful gadgets I've come across in a long time: a pen with a built-in digital recorder and lots of other smarts that enables you to make notes during meetings, lectures etc and then access every word that was actually being spoken when you made your note.
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Yet another URL shortener, this time from WordPress
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-08-16 19:00:47
Blog host WordPress.com has launched its own URL shortener.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-08-16 19:00:47
Blog host WordPress.com has launched its own URL shortener.
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Ask not what Telstra can do for the NBN but what the NBN can do for Telstra
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-11 21:44:47
There has been much discussion about how Telstra might 'help' the NBN by contributing facilities such as ducts etc, but there has been little discussion about how the NBN might 'help' Telstra by giving it much higher bandwidth access to many more customers than it is has available today through any of its access networks. Telstra has given some inkling of this by talking up its Next IP network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-11 21:44:47
There has been much discussion about how Telstra might 'help' the NBN by contributing facilities such as ducts etc, but there has been little discussion about how the NBN might 'help' Telstra by giving it much higher bandwidth access to many more customers than it is has available today through any of its access networks. Telstra has given some inkling of this by talking up its Next IP network.
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Femtocells: the next big thing in mobile communications
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-05 03:27:00
In a surprisingly short time femtocells have progressed from concept to commercial reality. They are now on the verge of bringing a whole gamut of new applications to consumers by integrating cellphones into the digital home.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-05 03:27:00
In a surprisingly short time femtocells have progressed from concept to commercial reality. They are now on the verge of bringing a whole gamut of new applications to consumers by integrating cellphones into the digital home.
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What future for the NBN when customers want mobile broadband?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-04 19:26:28
Whenever Australia's National Broadband Network is held up as a threat to its business, Telstra likes to remind us that, at the end of the day customers decide which services and networks prosper and which languish. If those customers choose mobile broadband services, what future then for the NBN?
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-04 19:26:28
Whenever Australia's National Broadband Network is held up as a threat to its business, Telstra likes to remind us that, at the end of the day customers decide which services and networks prosper and which languish. If those customers choose mobile broadband services, what future then for the NBN?
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Creating an illusion of progress on the Tasmanian NBN
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-07-16 05:32:21
Claims that the Tasmanian NBN is progressing according to the schedule promised in April don't stack up.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-07-16 05:32:21
Claims that the Tasmanian NBN is progressing according to the schedule promised in April don't stack up.
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What direction for Australia's digital economy?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-07-14 05:01:10
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has released a report on the Future Directions of Australia's Digital Economy, following a consultation paper issued in December. While it is full of good information, it is far from clear exactly what it is meant to achieve.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-07-14 05:01:10
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has released a report on the Future Directions of Australia's Digital Economy, following a consultation paper issued in December. While it is full of good information, it is far from clear exactly what it is meant to achieve.
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Can you sniff out a rotten phish?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-29 07:49:09
If so you are a member of an elite minority. According to research undertaken by Internet security specialist VeriSign, 86 percent of Australian Web users are at risk from online fraud, because they can't tell a phishy web site from the real thing.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-29 07:49:09
If so you are a member of an elite minority. According to research undertaken by Internet security specialist VeriSign, 86 percent of Australian Web users are at risk from online fraud, because they can't tell a phishy web site from the real thing.
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Telstra welcomes one small reduction in its regulatory burden
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-24 00:53:40
Wishful thinking or Telstra trying to be conciliatory to the Federal Government? Whatever, Telstra's over-enthusiastic welcome to a minor piece of legislation was in stark contrast to the song and dance the Trujillo-Burgess double act used to kick up.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-24 00:53:40
Wishful thinking or Telstra trying to be conciliatory to the Federal Government? Whatever, Telstra's over-enthusiastic welcome to a minor piece of legislation was in stark contrast to the song and dance the Trujillo-Burgess double act used to kick up.
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Optus back on the ASX would be a good thing
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-15 16:42:16
SingTel has been reported as contemplating reducing its 100 percent stake in Optus to around 20-30 percent and relisting the company on the ASX. That could be a good thing for the Australian telecoms market.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-15 16:42:16
SingTel has been reported as contemplating reducing its 100 percent stake in Optus to around 20-30 percent and relisting the company on the ASX. That could be a good thing for the Australian telecoms market.
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U.S. tobacco bill may pass despite cigarette lobby and pigs with lipstick ads
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2009-06-04 08:21:27
The U.S. Senate is currently debating a new bill proposing many more restrictions to the marketing of tobacco products, specifically cigarettes, and making the Food and Drug Administration responsible for controlling tobacco advertising. This is important because the tobacco industry will stop at nothing to get adults and your kids to try one of their products.
Read More About U.S. Tobacco Bill May Pass Despite Cigarette Lobby And Pigs With Lipstick Ads...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2009-06-04 08:21:27
The U.S. Senate is currently debating a new bill proposing many more restrictions to the marketing of tobacco products, specifically cigarettes, and making the Food and Drug Administration responsible for controlling tobacco advertising. This is important because the tobacco industry will stop at nothing to get adults and your kids to try one of their products.
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