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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
Maybe the frosty relations between the Government and Telstra are thawing. With an election announcement expected any day now communications minister Helen Coonan has just announced that Telstra will install ADSL in more than 200 rural exchanges, with funding from the Australian Broadband Guarantee scheme.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
Three Australians have launched crowdfound.com, billing it as the world's first human-powered 'best of the web' discovery engine, and saying that it is designed to overcome the limitations of search engines. But is it really a substitute for search?
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by Stuart Corner
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Saturday, 29 September 2007 |
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You might have an ADSL2+ service that promise broadband at "up to 20Mbps" but what you get depends on how close you are to the exchange and how good your line is, but those caveats are usually relegated to the fine print. It's the same in the UK, but over there users are pushing ISPs to be more candid. Maybe Australia should follow their lead.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
I don't know whether it was deliberate or not but Seven's bid for Unwired coming in the midst of the WiMAX World in Chicago could not have been better timed to focus attention on Seven's WiMAX ambitions.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
Telstra's telesales person was trying to get me to switch my home phone back to Telstra. He did not like me correcting his misinformation about Optus.
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by Stuart Corner
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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
Telstra has sent out a survey to all shareholders with their dividend statement saying it is "about important policy issues that affect the competitive environment of the company and the value of your shareholding." It's a joke.
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by Stuart Corner
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Saturday, 22 September 2007 |
Mobile phones, wireless spectrum and now, submarine cable networks: is there no section of the communications market that Google is not planning to enter?
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
The Government's expert task force has issued the guidelines against which it will assess proposals for high speed urban broadband networks, but they are fundamentally flawed.
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 19 September 2007 |
Press releases from communications minister Helen Coonan trumpeting some initiative or other to protect Australian families from the perils of the Internet seem to have become an almost daily occurrence in the run up to the federal election. They are not all they seem to be.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007 |
'Ignite Innovation' is the theme of this year's Cisco Networkers event being held in Brisbane but a key message is that collaboration will be the spark to light the fire of innovation.
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by Stuart Corner
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Sunday, 16 September 2007 |
One thing you may not know about the TiVo personal video recorded - due to hit our shores early next year - is that it knows what you like to watch. This is not always a good thing.
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
It would be laughable were not the underlying issues so serious: Telstra is taking legal action against communications minister, Helen Coonan on the basis that she has been fairly casual with the truth in her public utterances.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the 'birth' of the GSM digital cellular standard: its introduction into Australia took place in parallel with the introduction of competition - and was fiercely opposed by Telstra.
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