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So much nonsense has been written about the so-called 4G versus NBN debate that it seems that everyone except some serious telecoms pundits have overlooked…
Over coffee not long ago, a friend chided me over my NBN skepticism with a leading question 'what's the best way to connect to the…
Saturday, 12 February 2011 16:32
Admission of failure for Nokia equals opportunity for Microsoft?
By Stan Beer
The decision by mobile phones market leader Nokia to replace its very own operating system Symbian with Microsoft Windows Phone 7 on future smartphone products…
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If I was holding Apple shares I would be very nervous right now. It has nothing to do with prognostications from Netgear's boss about closed…
Compromising the security of more than 4 million Vodafone customers is nothing short of an outrage and may even be a reason for another class…
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Thursday, 09 December 2010 15:37
Wikileaks' Assange charged with'¦.having consensual sex!
By Stan Beer
The Keystone Cops nature of what increasingly looks like an international smear campaign against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is nothing short of amazing. After weeks…
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OPINION Rape is a heinous crime and if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is proven guilty then he should do serious time in a Swedish prison.…
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Worldwide it has always been fashionable to hate your government-owned telephone company and Telstra has been no exception. Privatisation and regulation has seen the Telstra…
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The news that Senator Nick Xenophon has decided to act like a true independent and intends to hold the Government to account over the NBN…
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The well known axiom that you shouldn't believe everything you read in the media has found a new adversary in online social blab network Twitter.…
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