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Screaming to end cellphone theft? You must be joking.
Wednesday, 04 October 2006
Remote XT has garnered enormous publicity from its service that can set a cellphone off screaming incessantly if it is reported stolen.


 
Nokia coy on fuel cell cellphone power
Wednesday, 04 October 2006
Nokia has been widely reported saying that fuel-cell powered cellphones are still several years away, but all these reports are based on an off-the-cuff remark by a Nokia researcher.

 
Trujillo's claimed achievements ignore history
Tuesday, 03 October 2006
Gee this guy Sol Trujillo is brilliant. In just over year he has transformed Telstra from being a lumbering and bureaucratic government department into a nimble global corporation and he's identified and remedied a lack of products for the small business market that seems to have eluded all his predecessors: this at least is what you might believe if you took some of today's newspaper reports at face value.

 
PM's blood boils at 'secret' payphone removal plan
Monday, 02 October 2006
Our prime minister, John Howard, has not survived a decade at the top the political tree without being good at keeping his cool but there are increasingly signs that his frustration with Telstra's management and board has now reached such a pitch that he's letting his emotions get the better of him.

 
If I hear "HSDPA will deliver 14.4Mbps" one more time I shall scream.
Monday, 02 October 2006
This phrase or similar keeps getting trotted out like a mantra every time anyone mentions Telstra's new 850MHz 3G network, and its inseparable companion is that "the network will cover 98 percent of population".

 
What do Schapelle Corby and Bindi Irwin have in common?
Monday, 02 October 2006
They were both the centre of major news events whose timing was known well in advance so people eager for the news knew they could get it from the Internet quicker than from anywhere else.

 
Norwood's Bluetooth blues
Sunday, 01 October 2006
The meteoric rise of WiFi in the eight years of Bluetooth's existence has done much to diminish the latter's aspirations. That has been particularly unfortunate for one Australian company which has invested over $23 million in R&D exploiting Bluetooth to the max, but which now finds itself perilously short of cash.

 
Get ready for another disruption
Saturday, 30 September 2006
ABI research is tipping huge growth in the sales of dual mode cellular/wifi handsets as fixed mobile convergence gathers momentum, but another potentially disruptive technology could help the mobile operators keep traffic on their networks and ownership of their customers.


 
Guess what? Spectrum is finite
Friday, 29 September 2006
Telstra and its CEO Sol Trujillo have been copping stick big time in the media of late but latest assault: a report claiming imminent capacity problems on the new 3G network is way off the mark.

 
Prime Minister Howard at war with Telstra
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
ImageJust when you thought relations between the Telstra board and management and the Government could get no worse, they have. Much worse.
 
Seagate promises a video library on a hard disc
Monday, 18 September 2006
Hard drive manufacturer Seagate reckons it could be shipping 2.5 terabyte hard drives by 2009. Capacities like that could change the way people buy movies.

 
BlackBerry Pearl a real gem or a mere bauble?
Monday, 18 September 2006

There is no doubt that the latest BlackBerry, the Pearl, is an impressive technical achievement, but all the hard work has gone to packing in consumer features like camera, MP3 player and video support in the belief that consumers will choose it over competing products because they really want the email functionality.

 
What will they outsource next to India?
Monday, 18 September 2006
Try as they might Indians will never learn to speak with an Aussie accent and despite peppering their telesales spiel with Aussie colloquialisms and boning up on Aussie culture: you'll always know when you billing enquiry or request for customer support has been outsourced to the sub-continent. But what happens when outsourcing is less transparent?

 
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