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Australia to become most competitive iPhone 3G market with Telstra joining race?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-06-19 06:03:57
A newspaper report has suggested Telstra will definitely sell the iPhone come July 22, 11 days after Apple, Vodafone and Optus start retail sales. Although the report only quotes “sources” with an official Telstra spokesperson saying that “nothing’s changed”, the cat seems to be well and truly out of the bag – and it’s holding a Telstra 3G iPhone!


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Firefox 3, the Guinness Book of Records, and mobile phones
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery

Category: The Linux user and switcher blog

2008-06-14 23:35:23
Firefox 3 is coming! It’s been years in the coming and computers users worldwide are waiting with baited breath. Here’s what’s new, how YOU can help get Firefox into the Guinness book of records plus news about an exciting development – Firefox for mobile phones!
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Apple iPhone apps a billion dollar business?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-06-11 17:26:32
An analyst is predicting that Apple's App Store for iPhone and iPod touch software could exceed $US1 billion in 2009. The projections are based on a user base that could reach 85 million.


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Canonical brings forth remixed version of Ubuntu for “Netbooks” called... Remix
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-06-04 08:30:39
Want a version of Linux for your Intel Atom powered “NetBook” – aka Asus Eee PC type subnotebook? Canonical hopes that Ubuntu Remix will fit the bill for OEMs – and presumably users, too - and has launched it at Computex in Taiwan. Will it?


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Spb mobile shell puts Windows Mobile interface to shame
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-05-23 00:53:54
Based on the high popular Spb “Mobile Shell”, Spb Software House has showcased a new “Online Shell” at Australia’s CeBIT tech conference. It brings a range of online multimedia entertainment and information services using the Mobile Shell interface, which itself brought a very iPhone-esque experience to drab Windows Mobile devices.


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Consumers clamour for more choice in mobile services
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2008-05-22 01:54:46
I know my mobile phone usage is far from typical. If the supermarket is out of our usual brand of butter, I don't ring home and discuss it, I just pick from what's there. But it is reassuring to learn that I am in at least one respect part of the majority according to a new survey.


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Quad-band 3G iPhone to ‘qonquer’ the world?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-05-16 03:19:51
In my previous 3G iPhone article, noting that Optus and Vodafone had officially announced they were both independently bringing the iPhone to Australia, I looked at three 3.5G frequencies, but forgot a fourth which any iPhone should also support. In addition, Vodafone answered some of my 3.5G frequency questions...


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Yellow Pages fights Google with mobile search, gives iPhone app update
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-05-16 01:58:09
With Google reporting higher mobile usage than ever, especially through the iPhone, pre-Google information services are striking back with their own mobile search apps. In Australia, the local version of the “Yellow Pages” is reporting surging levels of people accessing the service through mobile phones, across all carriers, in line with growing search demand - while Sensis also gives us an update on progress with its iPhone search application.


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Game changing Eee PC 900 to make Australian debut end of May
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2008-05-08 05:56:04
OK, the affordable sub-notebook charge has begun in Australia. Last month, the HP Mininote, sporting a 8.9 inch screen, a usable keyboard and a sturdy aluminium case hit our shores for $899. At the end of this month, Asustek will start selling the big brother to its Eee PC, the Eee PC 900 and priced at just $599 with some interesting new features, it could take off like a rocket.


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Integrate your voice and data communications with Telstra Next Dimension Working™
Written By: Paul Hosking
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-05-07 15:50:59
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Typically the costs of an integrated communications network would be prohibitive for smaller and medium sized businesses.  Telstra removes the need for the large upfront investment by offering integrated business technology solutions as an affordable service billed monthly as an operational expense.



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Vodafone gets Aussie iPhone – but who else will?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-05-06 01:47:25
Curiouser and curiouser – the one company nobody really expected to get the iPhone, in Australia at least, has officially announced it will soon offer it for sale. But this doesn’t mean that initial rumours that all Australian carriers would be able to sell the iPhone aren’t true – until we get further confirmation.


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iSpy with my little i, something beginning with “3G iPhone”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-05-02 08:31:13
So, CNET.com.au says an anonymous industry insider has confirmed Optus will be one of the carriers in Australia to get the iPhone, while not being an exclusive deal. Surely it’s a 3G iPhone, and if Telstra doesn’t also get it, you can bet they’d be mighty unhappy.


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Mobile broadband players eyeing 2.5GHz spectrum
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-05-02 05:46:47
In the unending war of words between the rival mobile broadband camps - WiMAX and 3G/HSPA - an oft-repeated criticism levelled at the HSPA camp is that the spectrum available for the technology will not support the anticipated huge take-up of mobile broadband services. If the  HSPA camp gets its way - that could change.


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HTC Shift lands in Australia at last
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-04-21 01:43:55
The long awaited HTC shift, a 7-inch ultra-portable Windows Vista Business computer, merged with a Windows Mobile style device, has finally landed in Australia, but it isn’t cheap!


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The rise and rise of mobile data usage
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-04-17 20:50:21
A new study by m.Net corporation and the University of Adelaide shows that mobile data services (MDS) on mobile phones – purchasing, communications, information and entertainment – are finally reaching “critical mass”.


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WiMIN or WiMAX: Stacks of WiMAX facts?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news

Category: Telecoms

2008-03-26 23:01:36
Buzz Broadband certainly set the WiMAX cat amongst the pigeons when their CEO basically said that WiMAX sucks. Now the WiMAX empire and its supporters have struck back, bigtime, no doubt sending Buzz into a spin.


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HTC’s new Touch model has GPS but ditches the keypad
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-03-25 03:44:54
HTC’s popular ‘Touch’ devices are now joined by the Touch Cruise, which comes with an iPod-esque scroll wheel, built-in Wi-Fi, built-in GPS and Co-Pilot Live 7 navigation software – but where’s the slide-out keypad/keyboard?


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Sony Ericsson’s ‘ultimate’ mobile music device cool, but hardly the ultimate
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-03-10 05:21:53
Sony Ericsson has released the W890i Walkman phone, calling it ‘the ultimate’ mobile music device – but I know of a better one, and I’m not talking about the iPhone!


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Gosling thinks wireless cellphone downloads bad: is he kidding?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-03-06 06:13:58
I was incredibly surprised and saddened to learn that the father of Java, James Gosling, is firmly stuck in the 20th century, oddly believing that the “over-the-air” (OTA) distribution of mobile applications is somehow the wrong idea – and yet he uses an iPhone!


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Vodafone selects Ericsson for national network upgrade
Written By: Ian Grayson
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-03-05 21:10:35
Vodafone Australia has inked a deal with Ericsson to fast track the rollout of a national high-speed mobile network.

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