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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
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I'm used to corporates avoiding curly questions with a "no comment" but Skype's response to my question on its requirements to comply with the Australian Communication and Media Authority's new rules requiring VoIP services to be able to call 00 suggests it really does not care.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
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Google's Android cellphone software initiative has a precedent in the PC industry. In the beginning were multiple PC operating systems tied to proprietary hardware platforms. One of these decided to make its platform open to any hardware manufacturer, and the inexorable rise of Microsoft had begun.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
The United Nations, Google and Cisco have joined forces to launch a web site that tracks progress achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but suppose there is more good news than bad to report, or nobody bothers to view it.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
Amid a deluge of numbers on every aspect of Telstra's business at its investor day briefing, there was one number that Telstra did not want to give: CDMA subscribers who have yet to be shifted onto Next G.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
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I have long thought it absurd that while mobile phones have evolved enormously over the past decade the way they are sold hasn't. All that has changed with Telstra's new retail store, and the competition will have tofollow. |
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 29 October 2007 |
It was one of those fortuitous coincidences Shortly after I wrote a report this morning on the US web site, PlayerBlock , where you can slag your latest date for all to read, so long as they have that person's mobile phone number, I received one of Ovum's regular comment pieces. This one on the new challenges we all face through the rapid emergence of social networking.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 29 October 2007 |
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Last month iTWire brought you reports of a service in the US that enables you to fake the phone number you appear to be calling from - the biggest users are curious lovers wondering if their soul mate or partner is cheating. Now we report on another with equally dubious ethics.
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by Stuart Corner
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Sunday, 28 October 2007 |
In Australia telecommunications policy is on the backburner until after the election, full operational separation of Telstra is still only an academic discussion and Telstra's FTTN rollout has been officially on hold for two years. Meanwhile across the Tasman, it's a different story.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
Communications minister Helen Coonan has claimed that a news story in the Financial Review this week which reported her as saying that the Government might be prepared to fund a fibre to the home rollout, rather than fibre to the node, should the Expert Task Force recommends such, took her remarks out of context. Her claim is not very convincing.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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Last month I reported on a campaign in the UK that was lobbying Government to instruct Ofcom (the equivalent body to the Australian Communications and Media Authority) to force ISPs to advertise a typical rate for broadband subscriptions, not just a theoretical 'maximum' rate. It is making considerable headway.
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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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