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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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
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A new book on the history of the telephone is being lauded for revealing the "shocking truth" that Alexander Graham Bell plagiarised a key component of his invention from rival Elisha Gray. The book's author may have uncovered the vital damning evidence that eluded Bell's accusers over a hundred years ago, but there is little shocking in the allegations which were thoroughly aired and repeatedly tested in court several times in the late 19th century.
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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A new report claims to analyse the significance of Google's Android Linux-based mobile platform versus competitive platforms. It makes the headline-grabbing statement that unless Android is able to "galvanise the mobile Linux development movement" it will be obsolete before 2008 is out, but there is little indication that this report has the full measure to the mobile Linux movement and Linux-based competitors to Android.
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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The Australian Labor Party is moving ahead swiftly to fulfil its pre-election promise to mandate ISP-level filtering of Internet content - and is taking a very significant step beyond the level of filtering contemplated by the former Government.
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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An Australian company going by the rather suggestive name of 'Fluc' is offering cellphone customers hard cash if they are willing to receive ads relevant to them, their locations and their friends. Mobile advertising is going to be big, but not, I suspect, this way.
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
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The Australian Communications & Media Authority (ACMA) has published the results of research into the supply and demand of VoIP services in Australia, saying it needs to understand new services to guide its regulatory decisions, but there is little in the results to offer any guidance.
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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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