 Cornered! is a blog on all things telecommunications, and a few others as well: local and global issues, technology, people and trends from the perspective of someone who's been observing, reporting, analysing and commenting on the industry since the dark ages (BC - before competition). Sometimes serious, sometimes flippant, sometimes frivolous. It aims to be controversial, analytical, informative, amusing, but never boring; a vehicle for examinations of important issues and observations on the encounters and experiences of a telecoms journalist dealing with an industry where polarised views and hyperbole are the norm.
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
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Vodafone Australia last month announced free advertiser-funded mobile content predicting that, "in three to five years, mobile content and possibly even mobile calls will be heavily subsidised by advertisers." In Europe Blyk is already pioneering these, and expanding rapidly.
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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Over in the USA the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a think tank formed in 2006 in recognition of the increasingly central role of technology in ensuring American prosperity, has just released a study: "Framing a National Broadband Policy." The ALP's FTTN plans notwithstanding, Australia should heed its recommendations.
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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A survey of cellphone users in the UK has come up with some, hardly surprising results: most people just use their phones for voice and text, don't read manuals and use only a fraction of the features and functions available on their handsets. Who did the survey, and why, is much more interesting.
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
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Cisco has secured a stake in the nascent market for 3G femtocells, with a strategic investment in UK startup ip.access, which is a market leader in the technology. It could make a big impact down the track.
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
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At Telstra's day long good news deluge last November (aka its Investor Day Briefing) there was good news aplenty from its directories business, Sensis. But its flagship Yellow Pages directory seems to be shrinking.
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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Recent advances in videoconferencing making virtual meetings a much closer approximation for face-to-face meetings - so called 'telepresence' is starting to have a very significant impact on corporate travel budgets, not to mention the redirection of staff travel time to more productive activities. The travel industry should be worried.
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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Telstra's outspoken regulatory chief, Phil Burgess was giving Telstra's pet hate, Opel, another blast in his usual colourful manner last week as Telstra once again resorted to the courts in a bid to find out how Opel last June came to get a $1 billion handout from the Government when there was supposed to be only $600m on offer.
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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IT news sites in the US have been running hot over the past few days with reports that Time Warner Cable is about to trial usage-based billing for its broadband services, including monthly download caps that could be "only 5GB per month." These developments are just the harbinger of bigger changes to come.
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
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Cisco has for weeks now been letting information trickle out about its Entertainment Operating System (EOS), but it's rather more than an operating system: it's a software-as-a-service platform that enables content owners to easily distribute and monetise their content, and it's prompting leading commentators to ask if Cisco could be the next Facebook. (updated added at the end)
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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While the lifetime of computer equipment is rapidly getting shorter Australia is moving only slowly towards a national recycling scheme. Meanwhile in the US, private enterprise has come up with a scheme that gives owners of obsolete equipment some incentive to recycle.
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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Cisco CEO, John Chambers, has been reported telling journalists at CES 2008 in Las Vegas that video is the next killer app, and in particular, the combination of video and social networking, which Cisco has dubbed 'Visual Networking'. But the company has also flagged a shortage of networking skills as a major threat to progress.
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