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Surprise! Surprise IPStar Satellite tries to give its distributor the flick
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-05 01:02:02
iTWire questioned broadband satellite operator IPStar's choice of its exclusive Australian distributor when the deal was announced last November. So we are not the least bit surprised that IPStar now seems to be trying to get out of the deal.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-05 01:02:02
iTWire questioned broadband satellite operator IPStar's choice of its exclusive Australian distributor when the deal was announced last November. So we are not the least bit surprised that IPStar now seems to be trying to get out of the deal.
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The horror! the horror! Per gigabyte broadband charging provokes outrage in the US
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-03 01:20:43
In the US Time Warner has introduced a broadband plan with a 'paltry' 5Gbyte data limit, outraging US commentators. But as consumers' appetite for video places ever more demand on networks they had better get used to it.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-06-03 01:20:43
In the US Time Warner has introduced a broadband plan with a 'paltry' 5Gbyte data limit, outraging US commentators. But as consumers' appetite for video places ever more demand on networks they had better get used to it.
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A green light is one that's never on
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-29 20:15:12
Go into any data centre and you will see thousands of tiny lights, in the rows and rows of electronic gear. A UK company reckons these, and those on computing equipment in UK homes contribute 50,000 tonnes to CO2 emissions and waste £10m a year in energy costs.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-29 20:15:12
Go into any data centre and you will see thousands of tiny lights, in the rows and rows of electronic gear. A UK company reckons these, and those on computing equipment in UK homes contribute 50,000 tonnes to CO2 emissions and waste £10m a year in energy costs.
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Smoke and mirrors on structural separation
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-27 01:18:36
Optus has released a report, commissioned from the Competition Economists Group (CEG-Asia Pacific) to push its claim that Telstra should be structurally separated, but it is a document of little substance.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-27 01:18:36
Optus has released a report, commissioned from the Competition Economists Group (CEG-Asia Pacific) to push its claim that Telstra should be structurally separated, but it is a document of little substance.
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Telstra's $15b FTTN estimate "scaremongering"
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-26 01:04:39
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's recent claim that the cost of rolling out an FTTN network to 98 percent of Australian homes would be closer to $15b than the $8 billion in the government's estimate has been dismissed as "a vain attempt to scare off the opposition," but some industry players think his estimate is, if anything, too low.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-26 01:04:39
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's recent claim that the cost of rolling out an FTTN network to 98 percent of Australian homes would be closer to $15b than the $8 billion in the government's estimate has been dismissed as "a vain attempt to scare off the opposition," but some industry players think his estimate is, if anything, too low.
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Watch out Rupert! - YouTube wants to be top news destination
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-25 21:54:42
Google subsidiary YouTube has launched a CitizenNews section with the stated aim of becoming "the go to destination for news on the web." With many people now going first to Google for news does this mean they could soon not be going to traditional news sites at all!
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-25 21:54:42
Google subsidiary YouTube has launched a CitizenNews section with the stated aim of becoming "the go to destination for news on the web." With many people now going first to Google for news does this mean they could soon not be going to traditional news sites at all!
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Celebrating 20 years of telecoms competition
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-21 20:53:54
Twenty years ago this Sunday the Hawke Labor Government set in train legislative changes that, in less than a decade, ended a century long history of provision of telecommunications services by government owned monopolies.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-21 20:53:54
Twenty years ago this Sunday the Hawke Labor Government set in train legislative changes that, in less than a decade, ended a century long history of provision of telecommunications services by government owned monopolies.
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Top ten UFO images on MSNBC
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-05-19 08:54:26
For those of you interested in unidentified flying objects (UFOs), MSNBC describes ten instances of sightings by Earthlings with possible extraterrestrial (ET) objects. These close encounters are described on videos at the MSNBC website. Are they believable, or just hoaxes?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-05-19 08:54:26
For those of you interested in unidentified flying objects (UFOs), MSNBC describes ten instances of sightings by Earthlings with possible extraterrestrial (ET) objects. These close encounters are described on videos at the MSNBC website. Are they believable, or just hoaxes?
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Science, Religion, God: Discussions by thinkers
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-05-17 10:14:23
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) held a discussion on Thursday, May 15, 2008, at the Wohlstetter Conference Center in Washington, D.C., United States. The topic at hand was “Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?"
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-05-17 10:14:23
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) held a discussion on Thursday, May 15, 2008, at the Wohlstetter Conference Center in Washington, D.C., United States. The topic at hand was “Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?"
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Where is the Mars Polar Lander? Maybe you can locate it?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-05-17 09:12:43
NASA scientists with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission have released images of where the Mars Polar Lander was thought to have hard crashed back in 1999. They are asking people to take a look at the images to see if it can be located. Are you up to the challenge?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-05-17 09:12:43
NASA scientists with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission have released images of where the Mars Polar Lander was thought to have hard crashed back in 1999. They are asking people to take a look at the images to see if it can be located. Are you up to the challenge?
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Celebrating a century of wireless telephony!
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-16 00:06:27
Not exactly, but 100 years ago this week American inventor Nathan Stubblefield filed what is believed to be the first patent for a wireless telephone. A decade earlier an English scientist had clearly envisaged the possibility of global wireless communications using portable devices.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-16 00:06:27
Not exactly, but 100 years ago this week American inventor Nathan Stubblefield filed what is believed to be the first patent for a wireless telephone. A decade earlier an English scientist had clearly envisaged the possibility of global wireless communications using portable devices.
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Panic stations! Internet addresses running out says OECD
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-15 21:53:10
The OECD says governments and business must "work together more effectively and urgently to meet the growing demand for Internet addresses and secure the future of the Internet economy," but the world knew a decade ago that this parlous state of affairs was inevitable: initiatives to date have clearly been inadequate.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-15 21:53:10
The OECD says governments and business must "work together more effectively and urgently to meet the growing demand for Internet addresses and secure the future of the Internet economy," but the world knew a decade ago that this parlous state of affairs was inevitable: initiatives to date have clearly been inadequate.
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Nokia CEO flags shift into services
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-11 07:54:30
Less than 20 years ago the world's dominant cellphone manufacturer was making, amongst a host of other things, car tyres. Now it's shifting focus again, into services, and gearing up to take on Microsoft and Google.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-11 07:54:30
Less than 20 years ago the world's dominant cellphone manufacturer was making, amongst a host of other things, car tyres. Now it's shifting focus again, into services, and gearing up to take on Microsoft and Google.
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Australian comms minister canvasses structural separation
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-06 07:46:13
Australia's communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has said that he would consider a structural separation of Telstra along the lines of separation regimes introduced in Singapore, the UK and New Zealand in order to ensure a competitive market in the provision of future broadband services.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-05-06 07:46:13
Australia's communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has said that he would consider a structural separation of Telstra along the lines of separation regimes introduced in Singapore, the UK and New Zealand in order to ensure a competitive market in the provision of future broadband services.
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Whether to extend life of space shuttles or not? Oh, well maybe?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-04-30 16:17:49
Some U.S. federal politicians are trying to extend the operational life of NASA’s space shuttle fleet past 2010. Others aren’t so sure it is the wisest thing to do. Oh, what do we do?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-04-30 16:17:49
Some U.S. federal politicians are trying to extend the operational life of NASA’s space shuttle fleet past 2010. Others aren’t so sure it is the wisest thing to do. Oh, what do we do?
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China says it’s Number One in Internet Population. Is it?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-04-25 11:48:13
China states that it is the world’s largest Internet user country, with 221 million Internet users. However, it counts its people in a much more relaxed manner than the U.S., which has an estimated 212 million Internet users.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-04-25 11:48:13
China states that it is the world’s largest Internet user country, with 221 million Internet users. However, it counts its people in a much more relaxed manner than the U.S., which has an estimated 212 million Internet users.
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New Zealand National Party promises fibre to the home
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-04-21 23:28:01
The countries are different and so are the political parties but the pre-election announcement by New Zealand's National Party that it would invest $NZ1.5 billion over the next six years to rollout fibre to the majority of New Zealand homes bears many similarities to the Australian Labor Party's pre-election pledge of March 2007: and just look at the mess the ALP has now got itself into!
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-04-21 23:28:01
The countries are different and so are the political parties but the pre-election announcement by New Zealand's National Party that it would invest $NZ1.5 billion over the next six years to rollout fibre to the majority of New Zealand homes bears many similarities to the Australian Labor Party's pre-election pledge of March 2007: and just look at the mess the ALP has now got itself into!
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Talking up the looming Internet gridlock
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-04-21 19:22:06
An AT&T executive has made headlines by claiming that a global investment of $US130 billion will be needed in the next three years to stop the Internet becoming grid-locked, but he has no indication of how this investment will be funded, or even if a radical change in business models for Internet services will be needed. Perhaps he is simply scaremongering.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-04-21 19:22:06
An AT&T executive has made headlines by claiming that a global investment of $US130 billion will be needed in the next three years to stop the Internet becoming grid-locked, but he has no indication of how this investment will be funded, or even if a radical change in business models for Internet services will be needed. Perhaps he is simply scaremongering.
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Duct tape saves the day on the Moon
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-04-21 15:24:52
The date was December 11, 1972. NASA Apollo astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt had landed on the Moon. Lucky for them a roll of good old-fashion duct tape was onboard after damaging their lunar rover.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-04-21 15:24:52
The date was December 11, 1972. NASA Apollo astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt had landed on the Moon. Lucky for them a roll of good old-fashion duct tape was onboard after damaging their lunar rover.
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Media state NASA will stay 6 months on Moon in 2020. Incorrect!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-04-20 11:29:18
Based on comments by Carl Walz, NASA Director of Advanced Capabilities Division, some media reports are stating that astronauts will be staying six months on the Moon in 2020. These media statements are not correct. Please read on.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-04-20 11:29:18
Based on comments by Carl Walz, NASA Director of Advanced Capabilities Division, some media reports are stating that astronauts will be staying six months on the Moon in 2020. These media statements are not correct. Please read on.
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