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, 12 March 2007 |
Skype has come up with a new way to make money from its 171 million users: allow them to offer and charge for services either provided or initiated via Skype phone and video calls; handle the payments; take a hefty commission; hang on the cash for four months.
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
Communications minister, Helen Coonan's address to the Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG) annual conference this morning was long on platitudes and truisms and short on news and hard announcements. No surprises there.
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
Remember Bob Hawke's empty promise that by 2000 no child in Australia would live in poverty? The Howard Government is now promising that no Australian will live without broadband, but the promise does not stand up to close scrutiny.
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Monday, 05 March 2007 |
Almost two years ago The Federal Government promised $50 million to fix up broadband black spots in metropolitan areas. It has so far spent less than $250,000.
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Monday, 05 March 2007 |
Reports that Cisco plans to buy Tribe.net a pioneer social networking site now overshadowed by the likes of MySpace and YouTube have been greeted with incredulity, but in the context of Cisco's recent video initiatives it makes a lot of sense.
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Sunday, 04 March 2007 |
Two of the hottest concepts in marketing are 'proximity marketing' and hypertags, and underpinning both is the bluetooth short range wireless technology.
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
In December 2005 Telstra created consternation amongst its wholesale telephony service customers by rejigging its line rental pricing so that they were paying more for the service than Telstra, in most cases, was charging its retail customers. Or so its competitors alleged.
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Sunday, 25 February 2007 |
An idea that seems to be gaining acceptance in the US is to sign up for a phone service linked to a charity or political cause which benefits every time you make a call.
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Sunday, 25 February 2007 |
Welcome to the world of mobile TV advertising: targeted to your age, gender, location and several other attributes, probably.
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
Cisco is getting heaps of bad press because, shock horror, 77 of its routers are vulnerable to "drive-by pharming" attacks, but that's just because they make more products than other manufacturers. Every major router maker, and broadband service providers who use their products needs to take heed.
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
The massive electricity requirements of data centres seems to be drawing a lot of attention lately. IBM is now promoting virtualisation as a means of cutting a data centre's energy consumption by reducing the number of servers.
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
A new report says that SMS traffic volumes and revenues will continue to confound predictions. That's good new for cellular operators because the margin on text messages is really high.
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