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, 18 September 2006 |
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There is no doubt that the latest BlackBerry, the Pearl, is an impressive technical achievement, but all the hard work has gone to packing in consumer features like camera, MP3 player and video support in the belief that consumers will choose it over competing products because they really want the email functionality.
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
Try as they might Indians will never learn to speak with an Aussie accent and despite peppering their telesales spiel with Aussie colloquialisms and boning up on Aussie culture: you'll always know when you billing enquiry or request for customer support has been outsourced to the sub-continent. But what happens when outsourcing is less transparent?
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Sunday, 17 September 2006 |
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is one of the most important developments in telecommunications technology in recent years, so the IMS Forum should be congratulated for producing a set of FAQs on IMS in " the overwhelming demand for clarity in regard to this emerging standard." However, there is a catch.
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Thursday, 14 September 2006 |
Google has enhanced its popular satellite image delivery software, Google Earth with a "multimedia overlay" providing information about the location that the user zooms in on, but this is clearly just the first taste of what is possible.
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Sunday, 10 September 2006 |
Communications minister Helen Coonan has been talking up her Broadband Blueprint for months and a meeting of the Online Communications Council - federal, state and territory ministers responsible for IT&T was supposed to be a defining moment in the development of the strategy, but it has delivered nothing.
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Friday, 08 September 2006 |
Having witnessed the success or the Motorola RAZR and the LG 'chocolate' Nokia is reported to be planning to give its phones names instead of numbers, but there are good reasons for sticking with numbers.
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Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
When I ring a phone number I expect to hear a ring tone. I don't expect to hear music, jokes, quotes or gibberish but any or all of the above might be inflicted upon me next time I call a Telstra mobile: all thanks to the latest ARPU boosting initiative from BigPond.
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
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If I wrote about fashion instead of phones I would probably be used to this stuff, but I don't and I'm not. So I can only say I am gobsmacked by Nokia's outpouring of purple prose in praise of its latest cellphones.
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
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I thought for a moment yesterday that I must have slipped through a time warp to April 1: there were a couple of items in the news that I would have picked instantly as April Fool's jokes. But it's not April 1, so I can only conclude, incredulously, that the plans described are under serious consideration.
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
When Apple introduced its news search tool, Spotlight with the launch of OS X 10.4, it was crying out for additional search functionality: that and more is promised in OS X 10.5 Leopard, previewed at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference.
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
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If the previewed promises of Leopard, the next iteration of the Mac OS X operating system, are realised Apple will have done for backup what it did for the operating systems 22 years ago when it launched the Mac: made it easy and intuitive to use.
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Sunday, 30 July 2006 |
At Microsoft's annual analyst briefing, chief software architect Ray Ozzie spelt out the company's vision of putting the Internet and hosted services at the centre of its universe. It has much in common with the converged communications vision that the telecoms sector has been touting for some time.
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Monday, 24 July 2006 |
Microsoft's announcement of a major unified communications alliance with Nortel promises to have significant and far reaching effects on the enterprise communications market strengthening Microsoft's position against Cisco, which for all its dominance remains a relative newcomer to the telephony market.
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