 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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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
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After years of hype and unfilled expectations, 2008 could finally be the year that mobile WiMAX 'arrives'. The vendors are, as usual, bullish, but as 2007 draws to a close there seems to be cause for confidence.
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Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
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In the Internet's age of innocence, just a few short years ago, Spam was just a nuisance: mostly it was trying to sell something and most of it came from people simply exploiting the ability of the Internet to deliver millions of messages from their computer at minimal cost. Spam today is a much more sinister and dangerous beast and something has to be done to contain it.
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
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After examining the state of Australia's telecoms infrastructure, Engineers Australia has bemoaned the lack of any national vision or strategic plan for telecommunications and says that one is urgently needed.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 |
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In the hype that preceded and followed the launch of 3G cellular services much of the focus was on its ability to support video calling. But it is mobile broadband access that Vodafone is touting as the key benefit of its just announced 3G network expansion.
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
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Amazon's Kindle eBook has launched to much hype and mixed reviews, the ASUSTek Eee super-small notebook has sold like hot cakes and DataWind's Pocketsurfer2 mobile Internet access device, without the benefit of big name backers, has barely registered a blip on the local radar. But, according to ABI Research, these devices are only the vanguard of a 90 million strong invasion of ultramobile devices that will march into consumers hands over the next five years.
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
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I've discovered a couple of errors in my earlier piece about wireless broadband pricing. Vodafone is still the cheapest, but you'll need to be quick to catch it at this price, and Virgin Mobile has quietly hiked its prices.
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Sunday, 09 December 2007 |
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Australia's mobile operators have been progressively reducing prices for wireless broadband for months, with Vodafone or 3 generally taking the lead. But 3's response to Vodafone's latest price cut is less than exciting, for now at least.
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
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The announcement by Cisco this week of its new TrustSec role-based security architecture has thrown the spotlight on an increasing important area of network security that one day could eliminate, at source many of the problems with today's public Internet. Scot Janey, from Cisco's rival, Juniper Networks, explains.
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
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Telstra has vowed to appeal a federal court decision that its Next G advertising was and continues to be misleading. It would do better to let the matter rest and get on with providing what is undoubtedly a very useful service.
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
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PC Authority magazine has published results of the largest ever survey of Australian consumer IT buyers and the consensus of the 14,000 respondents is that Australia's largest ISP, Telstra BigPond, is a dog. Their views are at odds with reality: less than a month ago, Telstra was boasting BigPond's revival with market share climbing to close to 50 percent of total retail broadband customers.
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
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Freshtel's new 'converged' VoIP & mobile offering has the potential to really stir up the mobile market. Here's why.
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