Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Charles Simonyi, the Hungarian who moved to the US and became a billionaire after working at Microsoft for two decades, is set to become the world's next space tourist this weekend.
On Saturdauy, Simonyi will be launched into space in a Russian Soyuz capsule that will ferry him to the International Space Station for a 13-day, $US25 million space holiday.
Live coverage of the trip will be available at Simonyi's Charles in Space web site.
Also on board the Soyuz capsule will be Oleg Kotov and Fyodor Yurchikhin, who are scheduled to remain on the space station for at least six months. Simonyi will return with current ISS crewmembers Miguel Lopez-Alegria and Mikhail Tyurin.
Among other projects, Simonyi was one of the key people behind the development of Microsoft Word and Excel.
He is not the only Microsoft alumnus with an interest in space tourism - co-founder Paul Allen funded the SpaceShipOne project that won the X-Prize for the first private manned spacecraft to reach space twice within 14 days.
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