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First impressions of Freshtel cellphone VoIP offering
By: Stuart Corner
iTWire had a chance to preview Freshtel's latest VoIP service for cellphones' via WiFi, Freshtel Mobilelink.
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By: Stuart Corner
iTWire had a chance to preview Freshtel's latest VoIP service for cellphones' via WiFi, Freshtel Mobilelink.
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National Broadband Network: the questions that should have been asked
By: Stuart Corner
A UK study has found that national deployment of fibre to the cabinet (the cheapest technology option) would cost £5.1bn - three or four times more than the telecoms sector spent deploying today's broadband services - and that fibre to every UK home could cost as much as £28.8bn. For Australia, these numbers are less important than the questions that were asked.
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By: Stuart Corner
A UK study has found that national deployment of fibre to the cabinet (the cheapest technology option) would cost £5.1bn - three or four times more than the telecoms sector spent deploying today's broadband services - and that fibre to every UK home could cost as much as £28.8bn. For Australia, these numbers are less important than the questions that were asked.
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Putting a dollar value on the mobile porn market
By: Stuart Corner
Whenever Internet statistics are bandied about the great unmentionable is porn: it's rare to find any admission that it represents a significant portion of Internet traffic and usage. So it's refreshing to see at least one market research company game enough to be explicit about 'explicit' content.
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By: Stuart Corner
Whenever Internet statistics are bandied about the great unmentionable is porn: it's rare to find any admission that it represents a significant portion of Internet traffic and usage. So it's refreshing to see at least one market research company game enough to be explicit about 'explicit' content.
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Anatomy of a modest web site - lessons for all
By: Tony Austin
If you're the owner of a web site, or interested in web site design or maintenance or traffic analysis, here's a pictorial snapshot that shows some things to look for. Included are some current trends, including the state of the Browser Wars just as the upstart Google Chrome browser appears.
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By: Tony Austin
If you're the owner of a web site, or interested in web site design or maintenance or traffic analysis, here's a pictorial snapshot that shows some things to look for. Included are some current trends, including the state of the Browser Wars just as the upstart Google Chrome browser appears.
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Proton-smashing rapper Kate McAlpine youtubes about Large Hadron Collider
By: William Atkins
Kate McAlpine, a former Michigan State University student, has a physics rap song about CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator. Collide with it at YouTube!
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By: William Atkins
Kate McAlpine, a former Michigan State University student, has a physics rap song about CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator. Collide with it at YouTube!
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Long term evolution promising 100Mbps on 3G, but
By: Stuart Corner
3G cellular vendors are confidently predicting commercial availability in 2009 of the technology's next great leap forward, the long term evolution (LTE) and touting download speeds of up to 100Mbps but this will require access to new spectrum, which might be a problem.
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By: Stuart Corner
3G cellular vendors are confidently predicting commercial availability in 2009 of the technology's next great leap forward, the long term evolution (LTE) and touting download speeds of up to 100Mbps but this will require access to new spectrum, which might be a problem.
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Chef serves up food ad network
By: Stephen Withers
An Australian chef aims to link major brands in the food and beverage markets with specialist web sites that cater for culinary enthusiasts.
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By: Stephen Withers
An Australian chef aims to link major brands in the food and beverage markets with specialist web sites that cater for culinary enthusiasts.
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Talking Turkey: bloggers ban themselves in protest over banned blogs
By: Davey Winder
More than 200 bloggers in Turkey have taken the decision to ban their own blogs in protest at the Turkish government which has already banned hundreds of websites for insulting either the government or Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic.
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By: Davey Winder
More than 200 bloggers in Turkey have taken the decision to ban their own blogs in protest at the Turkish government which has already banned hundreds of websites for insulting either the government or Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic.
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As MobileMe and Gmail go down, huge customer service differences pop up
By: Davey Winder
It has not been the best 24 hours for anyone who mistakenly thought they were at the cutting edge of mobile email technology as Gmail and MobileMe both suffer service failures. However, the customer service response from Google and Apple could not have been more different...
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By: Davey Winder
It has not been the best 24 hours for anyone who mistakenly thought they were at the cutting edge of mobile email technology as Gmail and MobileMe both suffer service failures. However, the customer service response from Google and Apple could not have been more different...
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New 'green' rules for plug-in power packs
By: Stuart Corner
How many of those plug-in low voltage power packs are in your home: to charge your cellphone, power your Internet router, cordless phone, children's toys etc etc. When they are plugged in, they are sucking power whether they are being used or not. And from December they will have to meet new standards aimed at reducing the amount of energy they waste.
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By: Stuart Corner
How many of those plug-in low voltage power packs are in your home: to charge your cellphone, power your Internet router, cordless phone, children's toys etc etc. When they are plugged in, they are sucking power whether they are being used or not. And from December they will have to meet new standards aimed at reducing the amount of energy they waste.
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Netcomm Turbo 7 Gateway added to BigPond wireless broadband range
By: Stuart Corner
The BigPond version of the Next G wireless gateway with included router and WiFi access point, developed for Telstra by Netcom has gone on sale at $299 when combined with a service contract. I've been having a play with one, and it's a breeze to set up.
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By: Stuart Corner
The BigPond version of the Next G wireless gateway with included router and WiFi access point, developed for Telstra by Netcom has gone on sale at $299 when combined with a service contract. I've been having a play with one, and it's a breeze to set up.
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SEEK's name taken in vain
By: Stuart Corner
The subject line read "SEEK Newsletter". It offered part-time employment and it could have passed for an email from the well known jobs web site of that name. But...
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By: Stuart Corner
The subject line read "SEEK Newsletter". It offered part-time employment and it could have passed for an email from the well known jobs web site of that name. But...
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USO review buried in National Broadband Net process
By: Stuart Corner
Shadow communications minister, Bruce Billson has called for communications minister, Stephen Conroy to "emerge from his NBN fog and confusion to clarify the status of the buried USO review." iTWire has bad news for him. The USO is now well and truly wrapped up in that 'fog and confusion'.
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By: Stuart Corner
Shadow communications minister, Bruce Billson has called for communications minister, Stephen Conroy to "emerge from his NBN fog and confusion to clarify the status of the buried USO review." iTWire has bad news for him. The USO is now well and truly wrapped up in that 'fog and confusion'.
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ISP level net filtering: don't get too excited
By: Stuart Corner
Communications minister Stephen Conroy, hell-bent on foisting ISP level Internet filtering on all Australian consumers, is pretty pleased with the report of a trial of ISP level filtering handed to him recently to him by the ACMA, but it leaves many questions as to the practicalities of ISP level filtering unanswered.
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By: Stuart Corner
Communications minister Stephen Conroy, hell-bent on foisting ISP level Internet filtering on all Australian consumers, is pretty pleased with the report of a trial of ISP level filtering handed to him recently to him by the ACMA, but it leaves many questions as to the practicalities of ISP level filtering unanswered.
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Much furore over US Broadband policy
By: Stuart Corner
The US Government and US carriers are copping flack over future broadband offerings from all side, yet its FTTH deployment rate is the highest in the world.
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By: Stuart Corner
The US Government and US carriers are copping flack over future broadband offerings from all side, yet its FTTH deployment rate is the highest in the world.
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Telstra set to boost backbone network capacity?
By: Stuart Corner
Ericsson announced last week that it had won a contract to supply Deutsche Telekom with technology that will significantly increase the capacity of its optical fibre backbone network. This has big implications for Telstra.
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By: Stuart Corner
Ericsson announced last week that it had won a contract to supply Deutsche Telekom with technology that will significantly increase the capacity of its optical fibre backbone network. This has big implications for Telstra.
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“Ride, Boldly Ride”: Why human space exploration is important!
By: William Atkins
On July 24, 2008, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin gave a speech at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (University of West Florida) called “What the Hubble Space Telescope Teaches Us about Ourselves.”
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By: William Atkins
On July 24, 2008, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin gave a speech at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (University of West Florida) called “What the Hubble Space Telescope Teaches Us about Ourselves.”
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Free WordPress App comes to iPhone App Store
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
One of the most popular free blogging tools, WordPress, has just released a blogging app for one of the most popular smartphones, the iPhone. It’s available free of charge to download now, and works with the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch running the OS 2.0 software upgrade!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
One of the most popular free blogging tools, WordPress, has just released a blogging app for one of the most popular smartphones, the iPhone. It’s available free of charge to download now, and works with the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch running the OS 2.0 software upgrade!
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