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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
Blyk, the world's first mobile operator funded solely through advertising, revealed to analysts last week that it had doubled the number of customers since April, to 200,000. This is very significant development for every player in the mobile industry.
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 |
Telstra has sought to defend its financial prospects from gloomy analyst predictions, accusing the analysts of committing the "cardinal sin" of "retrofitting analysis to justify an already-formed conclusion."
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) is concerned that advertising could become more confusing if proposed legislation is implemented. Isn’t it nice that AMTA has our welfare at heart? Don't be so sure!
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
iTWire had a chance to preview Freshtel's latest VoIP service for cellphones' via WiFi, Freshtel Mobilelink.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
A UK study has found that national deployment of fibre to the cabinet (the cheapest technology option) would cost £5.1bn - three or four times more than the telecoms sector spent deploying today's broadband services - and that fibre to every UK home could cost as much as £28.8bn. For Australia, these numbers are less important than the questions that were asked.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
Whenever Internet statistics are bandied about the great unmentionable is porn: it's rare to find any admission that it represents a significant portion of Internet traffic and usage. So it's refreshing to see at least one market research company game enough to be explicit about 'explicit' content.
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by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
3G cellular vendors are confidently predicting commercial availability in 2009 of the technology's next great leap forward, the long term evolution (LTE) and touting download speeds of up to 100Mbps but this will require access to new spectrum, which might be a problem.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
Opera Software, developer of the popular Opera Mini web browser for mobile phones, has struck up a partnership with Jamba (aka Jamster) so that the Opera Mini homepage will "allow users to access the Jamba site with one easy click," - making it so much easier for them to get locked into costly subscriptions to ringtones, wallpapers etc.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
How many of those plug-in low voltage power packs are in your home: to charge your cellphone, power your Internet router, cordless phone, children's toys etc etc. When they are plugged in, they are sucking power whether they are being used or not. And from December they will have to meet new standards aimed at reducing the amount of energy they waste.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
The BigPond version of the Next G wireless gateway with included router and WiFi access point, developed for Telstra by Netcom has gone on sale at $299 when combined with a service contract. I've been having a play with one, and it's a breeze to set up.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
The subject line read "SEEK Newsletter". It offered part-time employment and it could have passed for an email from the well known jobs web site of that name. But...
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
Shadow communications minister, Bruce Billson has called for communications minister, Stephen Conroy to "emerge from his NBN fog and confusion to clarify the status of the buried USO review." iTWire has bad news for him. The USO is now well and truly wrapped up in that 'fog and confusion'.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
Communications minister Stephen Conroy, hell-bent on foisting ISP level Internet filtering on all Australian consumers, is pretty pleased with the report of a trial of ISP level filtering handed to him recently to him by the ACMA, but it leaves many questions as to the practicalities of ISP level filtering unanswered.
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