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NBN impetus traced back to 'asset rich' Telstra

This week the "revelation" that an uncooperative Telstra prompted the National Broadband Network will hit the headlines again as the ABC digs into the politics of the telecommunications industry. In reality the writing has been on the wall ever since deregulation more than a decade ago.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 April, 2011 11:28

Tags: deregulation, Four Corners, FTTN, government, NBN, nbn co, Senator Stephen Conroy, Telstra

Vodafone's Android Nexus S an iPhone killer? Hold the line

Having tracked the Android handset space since its inception, if only I had a dollar for every time a report claimed a new "iPhone killer" is about to be released. This time it's the Nexus S which is coming to Vodafone this year. It's a great handset, but let's not rule out the iPhone just yet.

By Rodney Gedda | 09 February, 2011 16:03

Tags: Android, gingerbread, Google, iPhone, Nexus S, samsung, smartphones, Vodafone

All brand new: an amaysim experience down under

A group of European entrepreneurs have banded together to create a new mobile telecommunications company aimed at the high-volume consumer market, and it even has a local call centre.

By Rodney Gedda | 23 November, 2010 10:44

Tags: amaysim, branding, marketing, mobile services, offshoring, outsourcing

TV spectrum wireless broadband: Analog back from the dead

This week the CSIRO announced it had succeeded in prototyping the transmission of wireless broadband Internet over spectrum reserved for television broadcasts. This makes an interesting broadband option for Australian's about to lose their analog TV signals.

By Rodney Gedda | 05 November, 2010 07:04

Tags: analogue tv, broadband, csiro, Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE), digital tv, ngara, wireless, digital tv switchover

We need a mobile broadband space race

On October 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik, the world's first-ever man-made satellite, into Earth orbit.

By Mike Elgan | 08 December, 2008 07:44

Tags: elgan, mobile broadband

Here comes the digital nomad dream vehicle

The economy is in full-blown meltdown. Home values are dropping. Businesses are closing. Layoffs are coming. Maybe it's time to escape from civilization and wait out the crash?

By Mike Elgan | 13 October, 2008 08:53

Tags: mobile technology

You’ve just received a Marketing message by SMS. Now what?

Mobile marketing is certainly a subject of great interest amongst advertisers and mobile network operators: Juniper predicts global spend on mobile advertising to leap from $US1.3 billion to $US7.6 billion by the end of 2008!

By Mark White | 08 October, 2008 15:06

Tags: geolocation, locatrix, mobilemarketing

5 reasons why the Android phone isn't game-changing

T-Mobile, HTC and Google launched the "world's first Android-powered mobile phone" today and proudly announced that this phone was going to be "game-changing". But after reading details on the phone, the service and some of the new applications, I'm left wondering where the game is actually changing.

By Keith Shaw | 24 September, 2008 09:54

Tags: Google Android

I want my mobile social address book

Business cards are as obsolete as fax machines. And like fax machines, business cards have us still using paper to move electronic data from one digital system to another.

By Mike Elgan | 22 September, 2008 09:12

Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Skype, social networking

Man vs. not-so-wild

Survivalist TV shows like Man vs. Wild and Survivorman pit man against nature in harsh environments around the world. The hosts of these programs demonstrate how to survive in the wilderness with nothing but a knife and a lot of know-how about finding food, shelter and a way out.

The challenges of WiMAX service activation: Over-the-Air provisioning in a retail-centric world

In traditional cellular networks, the operator retains primary control over the devices operating on its network, with most devices being directly supplied to the subscriber through the operator's retail stores or partners, and pre-provisioned with the operator's software or SIM card.

Is fixed-mobile convergence worth the bother?

Whether fixed-mobile convergence is for you in the near-term depends in part on how you define it, but for most, there's no rush.

Navigating the wild world of wireless

Verizon's proposed US$28 billion acquisition of privately held Alltel signals the start of hurricane season for wireless providers. And this season might just include the perfect storm: Technology shifts, consolidation and business-model changes are combining to reconfigure the world of wireless.

Is Palm worth developing for?

Palm isn't dead yet! That's the word from Palm CEO Ed Colligan, speaking at the recent media launch of the Palm Centro in Australia. To hear him tell it, the once-pioneering handheld maker is set to come roaring back onto the stage with new products, a new focus, and a brand-new, Linux-based OS, code-named Nova.

Is LTE the next must-have mobile broadband technology?

Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based services are garnering a lot of attention in the mobile broadband industry, despite the fact that they are at least two years away from being deployed.

Consolidation, convergence, change: the road ahead

What effect, if any, will the unstable global financial markets have on technology and business in the next few years? Where to now?

Mobile 2.0 - Just the beginning

With the increased demand for online social networking and the fast-paced development of Web 2.0 applications - most visibly through "mashups" - Mobile 2.0, or more clearly put: mobile Internet applications, are forecasted to be the next step in our technology-conscious generation.

Sweet new service backs up while it syncs

A company called Sharpcast last week rolled out a new service that syncs your data across PCs, Macs and phones. That sounds simple enough, but the service, called SugarSync, and it's believed to be the first of its kind.