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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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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
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The pundits are falling over themselves trying to upstage Steve Jobs and predict what the big news from Apple will be in his keynote speech, but while its unlikely to be a headline news item at Macworld, the re-entry of the Mac into the mainstream of enterprise IT could be one of the most important Mac developments of 2008.
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by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
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Cisco has for weeks now been letting information trickle out about its Entertainment Operating System (EOS), but it's rather more than an operating system: it's a software-as-a-service platform that enables content owners to easily distribute and monetise their content, and it's prompting leading commentators to ask if Cisco could be the next Facebook. (updated added at the end)
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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While the lifetime of computer equipment is rapidly getting shorter Australia is moving only slowly towards a national recycling scheme. Meanwhile in the US, private enterprise has come up with a scheme that gives owners of obsolete equipment some incentive to recycle.
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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Cisco CEO, John Chambers, has been reported telling journalists at CES 2008 in Las Vegas that video is the next killer app, and in particular, the combination of video and social networking, which Cisco has dubbed 'Visual Networking'. But the company has also flagged a shortage of networking skills as a major threat to progress.
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by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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The possibility of dual mode cellular/WiFi handsets being used as VoIP handsets via public hotspots to divert revenue from cellular networks has been with us for some time, but a deal between global hotspot operator Boingo and chipmaker Broadcom is about to make this a much bigger threat.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
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Panasonic has released a cordless phone with a bluetooth attachment that connects to any bluetooth enabled cellphone and enables the cordless handsets to be used to make and receive cellular calls.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
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New set-top boxes from Cisco's Scientific Atlanta business unit will be the first to be branded Cisco. Cisco has also released a new IP Home Gateway under the Cisco brand, a move that will inevitably re-ignite speculation that the Linksys brand under which Cisco has to date targeted the home and SOHO networking market is on the way out.
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by Stuart Corner
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
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There are over three billion mobile phone users. Someday most of them will be able to access the Internet from their cellphones and when they do Yahoo! wants to be their first port of call for whatever information or service they ultimately desire.
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by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
There is now over a decade of research looking into the possible carcinogenic effects of radiation from cellphones. No conclusive link has been shown, but the evidence is mounting and calls for caution have ramped up sufficiently to suggest that there is now cause for serious concern.
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