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Fake Steve Jobs R.I.P
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-07-11 15:59:29
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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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-07-11 15:59:29
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-07-06 12:06:53
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-07-06 12:06:53
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
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-07-06 00:17:37
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-07-06 00:17:37
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-07-02 09:22:50
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-07-02 09:22:50
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...
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-29 15:59:15
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-29 15:59:15
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?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-06-27 14:16:26
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-06-27 14:16:26
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
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-26 19:08:07
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-26 19:08:07
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
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-26 02:50:50
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-26 02:50:50
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?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-22 20:27:04
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-22 20:27:04
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
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-22 02:23:16
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-22 02:23:16
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)
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-15 23:40:12
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-15 23:40:12
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"
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-15 16:03:04
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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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-15 16:03:04
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
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-06-15 12:22:01
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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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-06-15 12:22:01
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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MSNBC list 10 scientifically inaccurate disaster movies
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-06-14 08:53:24
MSNBC states “Science sometimes gets twisted for the sake of a well-told story.” The website list ten disaster movies with improbable to impossible plots. Can we name more?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-06-14 08:53:24
MSNBC states “Science sometimes gets twisted for the sake of a well-told story.” The website list ten disaster movies with improbable to impossible plots. Can we name more?
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Wikipedia founder says legitimate criticism of Sol Trujillo was not removed
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-14 06:47:21
After I posted the story “Telstra heavies Wikipedia to protect CEO’s image” I received an email from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, saying: “Your story about Simon (sic) Trujillo / Telstra is erroneous to the point of irresponsibility.”
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-14 06:47:21
After I posted the story “Telstra heavies Wikipedia to protect CEO’s image” I received an email from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, saying: “Your story about Simon (sic) Trujillo / Telstra is erroneous to the point of irresponsibility.”
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Telstra heavies Wikipedia to protect CEO’s image
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-12 22:32:59
Reports have emerged revealing that, back in March this year, Telstra lawyers wrote to Wikipedia alleging that some parts of the entry on Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo were defamatory and demanding their immediate removal: Which may explain why his entry today is bereft of any reference to the many critical articles about him published in the early days of his Telstra leadership. (There is now a follow-up article on this issue)
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-12 22:32:59
Reports have emerged revealing that, back in March this year, Telstra lawyers wrote to Wikipedia alleging that some parts of the entry on Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo were defamatory and demanding their immediate removal: Which may explain why his entry today is bereft of any reference to the many critical articles about him published in the early days of his Telstra leadership. (There is now a follow-up article on this issue)
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Just what do you mean by structural separation?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-12 04:05:21
Calls for 'structural separation' are reaching a pitch matched only by Telstra's condemnation of the concept, but most of the competing rhetoric glosses over exactly what form of structural separation might be on the agenda, and, absent any real world examples, invokes operational separation to bolster its arguments.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-12 04:05:21
Calls for 'structural separation' are reaching a pitch matched only by Telstra's condemnation of the concept, but most of the competing rhetoric glosses over exactly what form of structural separation might be on the agenda, and, absent any real world examples, invokes operational separation to bolster its arguments.
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Invest in FTTN in haste: repent at leisure
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-11 00:48:54
Having given scant regard to examining all the options, the Rudd Government is driving the National Broadband Network project at breakneck speed to deliver on its pre-election promise of multimegabit services to 98 percent of the population within five years. Analysis from the UK, where these issues have been studied in much greater detail, suggests this might not be a wise move.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-11 00:48:54
Having given scant regard to examining all the options, the Rudd Government is driving the National Broadband Network project at breakneck speed to deliver on its pre-election promise of multimegabit services to 98 percent of the population within five years. Analysis from the UK, where these issues have been studied in much greater detail, suggests this might not be a wise move.
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Apple Snow Leopard Server to pounce on enterprise: preview
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2008-06-11 00:18:38
With Apple showing a renewed interest in the enterprise, it should be no surprise that Apple will be releasing a server version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Some of the features being touted are designed to make this OS an attractive alternative for business servers.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2008-06-11 00:18:38
With Apple showing a renewed interest in the enterprise, it should be no surprise that Apple will be releasing a server version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Some of the features being touted are designed to make this OS an attractive alternative for business servers.
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Telstra shoots messenger: accuses economists of producing 'bogus report'
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-05 20:55:11
If the ferocity of Telstra's attack on the latest contribution from the Competitive Carriers' Coalition to the current debate around the national broadband network is any indication, the CCC has hit the nail on the head. And what's more, Telstra's attempt to destroy its credibility has played right into the CCC's hands: ensuring that its views gain wide exposure.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-05 20:55:11
If the ferocity of Telstra's attack on the latest contribution from the Competitive Carriers' Coalition to the current debate around the national broadband network is any indication, the CCC has hit the nail on the head. And what's more, Telstra's attempt to destroy its credibility has played right into the CCC's hands: ensuring that its views gain wide exposure.
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