Cornered! is a blog devoted, most of the time anyway, to telecommunications: local and global issues, technology, people and trends from the perspective of someone who's been reporting, analysing and commenting on the industry since the dark ages (BC - before competition). Sometimes serious, sometimes flippant, sometimes frivolous. Controversial, analytical, informative, amusing, but never boring; a vehicle for examinations of important issues and observations on my encounters and experiences in an industry where polarised views and hyperbole are the norm.
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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
Whenever Internet statistics are bandied about the great unmentionable is porn: it's rare to find any admission that it represents a significant portion of Internet traffic and usage. So it's refreshing to see at least one market research company game enough to be explicit about 'explicit' content.
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
3G cellular vendors are confidently predicting commercial availability in 2009 of the technology's next great leap forward, the long term evolution (LTE) and touting download speeds of up to 100Mbps but this will require access to new spectrum, which might be a problem.
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
Opera Software, developer of the popular Opera Mini web browser for mobile phones, has struck up a partnership with Jamba (aka Jamster) so that the Opera Mini homepage will "allow users to access the Jamba site with one easy click," - making it so much easier for them to get locked into costly subscriptions to ringtones, wallpapers etc.
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
How many of those plug-in low voltage power packs are in your home: to charge your cellphone, power your Internet router, cordless phone, children's toys etc etc. When they are plugged in, they are sucking power whether they are being used or not. And from December they will have to meet new standards aimed at reducing the amount of energy they waste.
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
The BigPond version of the Next G wireless gateway with included router and WiFi access point, developed for Telstra by Netcom has gone on sale at $299 when combined with a service contract. I've been having a play with one, and it's a breeze to set up.
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
The subject line read "SEEK Newsletter". It offered part-time employment and it could have passed for an email from the well known jobs web site of that name. But...
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
Shadow communications minister, Bruce Billson has called for communications minister, Stephen Conroy to "emerge from his NBN fog and confusion to clarify the status of the buried USO review." iTWire has bad news for him. The USO is now well and truly wrapped up in that 'fog and confusion'.
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
Communications minister Stephen Conroy, hell-bent on foisting ISP level Internet filtering on all Australian consumers, is pretty pleased with the report of a trial of ISP level filtering handed to him recently to him by the ACMA, but it leaves many questions as to the practicalities of ISP level filtering unanswered.
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
The US Government and US carriers are copping flack over future broadband offerings from all side, yet its FTTH deployment rate is the highest in the world.
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
Ericsson announced last week that it had won a contract to supply Deutsche Telekom with technology that will significantly increase the capacity of its optical fibre backbone network. This has big implications for Telstra.
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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.
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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!
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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
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