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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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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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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.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
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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.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
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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.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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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.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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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.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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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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