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Spreading FUD on broadband regulation
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by Stuart Corner   
Friday, 08 February 2008
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!
 
Yahoo! with Microsoft: way ahead of Google & Android
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by Stuart Corner   
Thursday, 07 February 2008
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.
 
BT freezes Fusion: next generation replacement rumoured
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by Stuart Corner   
Thursday, 07 February 2008
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.
 
Telstra ADSL2+ 'spin' is breathtaking
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by Stuart Corner   
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
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.
 
Cellphone with GPS v GPS devices with cellphone
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by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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.
 
Blyk shows the way on advertising-funded phone calls
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by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 04 February 2008
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.
 
Time for a real national broadband policy
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by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 28 January 2008
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.
 
Surprise surprise: cellphone users don't read manuals
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by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 28 January 2008
A survey of cellphone users in the UK has come up with some, hardly surprising results: most people just use their phones for voice and text, don't read manuals and use only a fraction of the features and functions available on their handsets. Who did the survey, and why, is much more interesting.
 
Cisco set to stir up the femtocell market
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by Stuart Corner   
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Cisco has secured a stake in the nascent market for 3G femtocells, with a strategic investment in UK startup ip.access, which is a market leader in the technology. It could make a big impact down the track.
 
Don't judge a book by its cover, or its size
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by Stuart Corner   
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
At Telstra's day long good news deluge last November (aka its Investor Day Briefing) there was good news aplenty from its directories business, Sensis. But its flagship Yellow Pages directory seems to be shrinking.
 
Travel industry should be afraid, very afraid, of telepresence
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by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 21 January 2008
Recent advances in videoconferencing making virtual meetings a much closer approximation for face-to-face meetings - so called 'telepresence' is starting to have a very significant impact on corporate travel budgets, not to mention the redirection of staff travel time to more productive activities. The travel industry should be worried.
 
Opel: phantom company, phantom network?
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by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 21 January 2008
Telstra's outspoken regulatory chief, Phil Burgess was giving Telstra's pet hate, Opel, another blast in his usual colourful manner last week as Telstra once again resorted to the courts in a bid to find out how Opel last June came to get a $1 billion handout from the Government when there was supposed to be only $600m on offer.
 
US download quotas - the shape of things to come
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by Stuart Corner   
Monday, 21 January 2008
IT news sites in the US have been running hot over the past few days with reports that Time Warner Cable is about to trial usage-based billing for its broadband services, including monthly download caps that could be "only 5GB per month." These developments are just the harbinger of bigger changes to come.
 
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