 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.
|
|
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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.
|
|
|
Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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!
|
|
|
Friday, 18 July 2008 |
There is a scenario in the new Batman movie which, although technically absurd, foreshadows a surveillance system that is frighteningly close to reality
|
|
|
Friday, 18 July 2008 |
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?
|
|
|
Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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.
|
|
|
Sunday, 06 July 2008 |
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.
|
|
|
Monday, 30 June 2008 |
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.
|
|
|
Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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.
|
|
|
Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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.
|
|
|
Monday, 23 June 2008 |
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.
|
|
|
Sunday, 22 June 2008 |
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.
|
|
|
|
<< First page < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>
|
| Results 85 - 105 of 397 |
