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.
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Mike Bantick
Wednesday, 29 November 2006 06:56
The PlayStation Portable (PSP), in a lot of respects, is a marvellous piece of engineering. It looks cool, has superb interfaces with media; both wifi and cabled and provides another franchise outlet for games created for the PS3 as well as other platforms.
Lack of hard drive; sure it would have added further weight and perhaps bulk to a Handheld device already straining to contain itself. But imagine the possibilities of such an equipped gadget? The Memory Stick Duo storage format is great from a power consumption and weight perspective, and capacity will only get larger. But will it keep up with demand. An added HDD would have given us a no-brainer solution to Music and TivoToGo recorded TV storage issues.
Now I know that there are minions deep in the Sony fortress, clanking together beakers and pulling huge wall mounted electrical circuit breakers in the constantly evolving PSP lab. Sales figures are still strong, but the only real competition at the moment is the Nintendo DS – and really, they are not competing for the same demographic.
What is needed for the PSP to become all it can be, is some direct completion. Microsoft, I am looking at you. What can they do? Find out on page two.

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