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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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Australian Communications minister, Stephen Conroy claimed last week in support of his drive to mandate ISP filtering in Australia that "ISPs in a number of countries, such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and Finland, have successfully introduced ISP level filtering." He may well come to regret that statement.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
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Having blown the $26 million that Seven Network pumped in when it took a 33 percent stake in 2006, VoIP provider Engin has terminated its ambitious triple play intentions and is asking shareholders for another $8.4m just to keep it in business.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
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Communications minister Stephen Conroy has used publication of the ACMA's report on internet filtering to once again talk up the government's plans to introduce ISP level filtering, but the ACMA report says little in support of the practicalities of such a scheme.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
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In the movie Minority Report, as the hero strides down the street video advertising billboards spring to life and address him by name: all thanks to identifying him by scanning the unique patterns of his irises. Today multimedia cellphones and a new cellphone location technology promise to deliver similar personalisation to advertisers.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
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The challenges facing the makers of what were once simply mobile telephone handsets as they evolve and strive to be all things to all people has been a recurring theme of some of my recent blogs and news items. It's nice to see the 'father' of cellular telephony picking up on the same issues and pronouncing the 'handset' obsolete.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
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In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cisco boss John Chambers seems to have tried to upstage the leading luminaries of the global cellular industry: by presenting as new something they have been saying for years.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
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In the doublespeak of telecommunications politics "no compelling case" to regulate ADSL means it might be imminent and "it is unlikely there is a need to regulate" means "no way will there be regulation". Welcome to the brave new world of ALP telecoms regulation, or Telstra spin-doctoring. Take your pick!
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
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Google hopes its Android cellphone operating system will strengthen its position in the mobile Internet world, but Yahoo! combined with Windows mobile would present a formidable challenge.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
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BT has stopped marketing its fixed-mobile convergence service, Fusion to the consumer market, and it has hinted at a replacement which sounds remarkably like DataWind's PocketSurfer2 hand-held GPRS connected Internet-browsing and email device. It's a very significant development.
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
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Telstra has announced that it intends to roll out ADSL2+ services in a further 900 exchanges claiming it has received assurances from the Government that it will not be forced to wholesale these services to other providers. While I welcome Telstra's decision I am totally gobsmacked at the way it has tried to make out that the Government has bypassed the ACCC. Nothing is further from the truth.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
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Increasing cellphones are being offered with inbuilt GPS capability, but GPS device makers are fighting back: adding voice and data communications capabilities to their products.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
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Vodafone Australia last month announced free advertiser-funded mobile content predicting that, "in three to five years, mobile content and possibly even mobile calls will be heavily subsidised by advertisers." In Europe Blyk is already pioneering these, and expanding rapidly.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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Over in the USA the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a think tank formed in 2006 in recognition of the increasingly central role of technology in ensuring American prosperity, has just released a study: "Framing a National Broadband Policy." The ALP's FTTN plans notwithstanding, Australia should heed its recommendations.
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