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Will The NBN's 12Mbps be enough? Not nearly, say some
By: Stuart Corner
The Australian Government is promising at least 12Mbps and BT in the UK, up to 100Mbps, but in the hyperconnected household of there could be multiple devices and applications all demanding, and creating data at these rates, and there are many differing views as to what is the best way to deliver this bandwidth.
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By: Stuart Corner
The Australian Government is promising at least 12Mbps and BT in the UK, up to 100Mbps, but in the hyperconnected household of there could be multiple devices and applications all demanding, and creating data at these rates, and there are many differing views as to what is the best way to deliver this bandwidth.
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National Broadband RFP deadline: a moveable feast
By: Stuart Corner
This Friday 25 July is an important date. It is the original date by which responses to the Government's request for proposals to build a national broadband network were due. What a joke!
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By: Stuart Corner
This Friday 25 July is an important date. It is the original date by which responses to the Government's request for proposals to build a national broadband network were due. What a joke!
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Dark Knight portends dark days for civil liberties
By: Stuart Corner
There is a scenario in the new Batman movie which, although technically absurd, foreshadows a surveillance system that is frighteningly close to reality
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By: Stuart Corner
There is a scenario in the new Batman movie which, although technically absurd, foreshadows a surveillance system that is frighteningly close to reality
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Time to toughen up on ringtone marketing rules
By: Stuart Corner
The European Commission is about to clamp down on the dubious practices of European websites selling ringtones. Which prompts the question: are the rules in Australia tough enough?
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By: Stuart Corner
The European Commission is about to clamp down on the dubious practices of European websites selling ringtones. Which prompts the question: are the rules in Australia tough enough?
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BT plans £1.5b super broadband network
By: Stuart Corner
In a move that closely parallels Telstra's 2005 announcement of its FTTN plans, UK incumbent telco BT has promised to deliver high speed broadband services to 10 million UK homes (40 percent of total): if it can get the appropriate guarantees from the regulator.
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By: Stuart Corner
In a move that closely parallels Telstra's 2005 announcement of its FTTN plans, UK incumbent telco BT has promised to deliver high speed broadband services to 10 million UK homes (40 percent of total): if it can get the appropriate guarantees from the regulator.
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Fake Steve Jobs R.I.P
By: Davey Winder
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has quite likely seen the last entry as former Forbes Magazine journalist Daniel Lyons announces the death of his cult online persona. But will a new blog under his own name have the same impact as the satirical postings of the Fake Steve Jobs?
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By: Davey Winder
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has quite likely seen the last entry as former Forbes Magazine journalist Daniel Lyons announces the death of his cult online persona. But will a new blog under his own name have the same impact as the satirical postings of the Fake Steve Jobs?
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Do yourself a favor: drive your vehicles slower to save money
By: William Atkins
Republican Senator John Warner recently suggested re-imposing a U.S. national speed limit to save gasoline. However, we won’t need a national speed limit if all drivers voluntarily slowed down and used other fuel efficient measures. It would also be good for the world.
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By: William Atkins
Republican Senator John Warner recently suggested re-imposing a U.S. national speed limit to save gasoline. However, we won’t need a national speed limit if all drivers voluntarily slowed down and used other fuel efficient measures. It would also be good for the world.
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Hydrogen is not a renewable energy source
By: Stuart Corner
Telstra has installed a hydrogen powered fuel cell in its Melbourne headquarters as part of its renewable energy programme. A commendable initiative, but let's be clear about this, hydrogen is not an energy source, let alone a renewable one.
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By: Stuart Corner
Telstra has installed a hydrogen powered fuel cell in its Melbourne headquarters as part of its renewable energy programme. A commendable initiative, but let's be clear about this, hydrogen is not an energy source, let alone a renewable one.
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Oil: Pump more—or—Use less and find other options
By: William Atkins
Whether you believe it or not, the world is running out of oil. Scientists aren’t sure if the peak of oil production has already occurred or will happen sometime in the very near future, but we only have so much oil left in the ground to use for our ever expanding energy needs.
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By: William Atkins
Whether you believe it or not, the world is running out of oil. Scientists aren’t sure if the peak of oil production has already occurred or will happen sometime in the very near future, but we only have so much oil left in the ground to use for our ever expanding energy needs.
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Google Media Server links TV to PC and Internet, but there's more...
By: Stuart Corner
Google has released a piece of software that runs on your PC and works with equipment supporting the Universal Plug and Play standard, such as the PS3, to enable you to display, on your TV media files stored on your home network or on Google-owned sites like Picasa and YouTube. But combine this with something Google was playing with two years ago and things get really interesting.
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By: Stuart Corner
Google has released a piece of software that runs on your PC and works with equipment supporting the Universal Plug and Play standard, such as the PS3, to enable you to display, on your TV media files stored on your home network or on Google-owned sites like Picasa and YouTube. But combine this with something Google was playing with two years ago and things get really interesting.
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Will Michael Griffin stay at NASA?
By: William Atkins
An interesting blog from Florida Today concerns the topic as to whether NASA's top administrator Michael Griffin will stay at NASA after the next president—either Republican candidate John McCain or Democratic candidate Barack Obama—is elected at the end of 2008.
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By: William Atkins
An interesting blog from Florida Today concerns the topic as to whether NASA's top administrator Michael Griffin will stay at NASA after the next president—either Republican candidate John McCain or Democratic candidate Barack Obama—is elected at the end of 2008.
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The ITU's recurring dream: connect the world
By: Stuart Corner
The head of the International Telecommunication Union, Hamadoun Touré met up with the newly retired chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates last week for a little chat about improving communications in developing countries, and he told Gates: "My dream is to connect the world" It’s been the unfulfilled dream of every one of his predecessors over the past two decades.
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By: Stuart Corner
The head of the International Telecommunication Union, Hamadoun Touré met up with the newly retired chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates last week for a little chat about improving communications in developing countries, and he told Gates: "My dream is to connect the world" It’s been the unfulfilled dream of every one of his predecessors over the past two decades.
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Vodafone Business One: converged comms may be just phase one
By: Stuart Corner
Vodafone's one-stop shop converged offering for small business, Vodafone Business One , is truly an ambitious move. It certainly brings to small business an offering with a level of integration and 'one-stop-shopness' that is unprecedented and the technology Vodafone is using has the potential to support a wide range of business applications.
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By: Stuart Corner
Vodafone's one-stop shop converged offering for small business, Vodafone Business One , is truly an ambitious move. It certainly brings to small business an offering with a level of integration and 'one-stop-shopness' that is unprecedented and the technology Vodafone is using has the potential to support a wide range of business applications.
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Sol Trujillo 'untrustworthy' but can you trust the survey?
By: Stuart Corner
The Tell The Truth Telstra (T4) campaigners have seized on the results of the Readers Digest annual "Australia's Most Trusted People" list to claim it found that "Australian’s rate Sol Trujillo, CEO of Telstra, amongst the least trustworthy people in the country." That is hardly telling the truth.
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By: Stuart Corner
The Tell The Truth Telstra (T4) campaigners have seized on the results of the Readers Digest annual "Australia's Most Trusted People" list to claim it found that "Australian’s rate Sol Trujillo, CEO of Telstra, amongst the least trustworthy people in the country." That is hardly telling the truth.
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We have the technology...but so do the bad guys
By: Stuart Corner
Australian communications minister, Stephen Conroy, seems to believe that regulation can be embedded in technology. Recent developments suggest he is being overly optimistic, but that may be no bad thing.
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By: Stuart Corner
Australian communications minister, Stephen Conroy, seems to believe that regulation can be embedded in technology. Recent developments suggest he is being overly optimistic, but that may be no bad thing.
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For BigPond read Big Brother (Orwell's not Endemol's)
By: Stuart Corner
BigPond head honcho Justin Milne has delivered the most convincing picture I have yet seen of Telstra's media comms abilities and ambitions and it reinforces what I have been saying for years: Telstra is uniquely positioned because it is such a powerful player in so many overlapping, and converging, technologies, services and markets.
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By: Stuart Corner
BigPond head honcho Justin Milne has delivered the most convincing picture I have yet seen of Telstra's media comms abilities and ambitions and it reinforces what I have been saying for years: Telstra is uniquely positioned because it is such a powerful player in so many overlapping, and converging, technologies, services and markets.
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AT&T warns: usage based broadband charging "inevitable"
By: Stuart Corner
The latest suggestion from a US telco, this time AT&T, that usage based charging for broadband services is "inevitable" has sparked the usual flurry of indignation and denigration of service providers, but Blind Freddy should be able to see that inevitable it is.
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By: Stuart Corner
The latest suggestion from a US telco, this time AT&T, that usage based charging for broadband services is "inevitable" has sparked the usual flurry of indignation and denigration of service providers, but Blind Freddy should be able to see that inevitable it is.
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NASA is good and bad, just like other companies
By: William Atkins
It takes a lot of effort and planning to launch manned or robotic missions throughout the solar system. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. With each, respectively, accolades and criticisms are deserving. The same can be said about your organization on Earth.
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By: William Atkins
It takes a lot of effort and planning to launch manned or robotic missions throughout the solar system. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. With each, respectively, accolades and criticisms are deserving. The same can be said about your organization on Earth.
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