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Written 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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Written 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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Written 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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Written 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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Written 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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Written 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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Written 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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Written 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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Written by Stuart Corner
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
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A new book on the history of the telephone is being lauded for revealing the "shocking truth" that Alexander Graham Bell plagiarised a key component of his invention from rival Elisha Gray. The book's author may have uncovered the vital damning evidence that eluded Bell's accusers over a hundred years ago, but there is little shocking in the allegations which were thoroughly aired and repeatedly tested in court several times in the late 19th century.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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Here's an interesting statistic from the UK. Matthew Key, CEO-in-waiting of mobile operator O2, has been reported in The Financial Times saying that 60 percent of the operator's UK iPhone customers are sending or receiving more than 25MB of data per month on their phones whereas less than two percent of O2 UK's other contract customers use more than 25MB a month. This has significant implications for the expected launch of a 3G iPhone in Australia.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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A new report claims to analyse the significance of Google's Android Linux-based mobile platform versus competitive platforms. It makes the headline-grabbing statement that unless Android is able to "galvanise the mobile Linux development movement" it will be obsolete before 2008 is out, but there is little indication that this report has the full measure to the mobile Linux movement and Linux-based competitors to Android.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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The Australian Labor Party is moving ahead swiftly to fulfil its pre-election promise to mandate ISP-level filtering of Internet content - and is taking a very significant step beyond the level of filtering contemplated by the former Government.
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Written by Stuart Corner
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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An Australian company going by the rather suggestive name of 'Fluc' is offering cellphone customers hard cash if they are willing to receive ads relevant to them, their locations and their friends. Mobile advertising is going to be big, but not, I suspect, this way.
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