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If you're one of those people who likes to complain whenever their Wi-Fi connection even temporarily flickers, then being forced to use older connectivity technologies is a useful reminder of how much we have to be intermittently grateful for.
Earlier this month, Telstra put out a press release trumpeting that it's come up with a new phone coaching service to help people who are "bamboozled" by their mobiles. Another excellent example of wrongheaded thinking from the mobile industry.
If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
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As the year is waking up from its NYE celebrations, rubbing its eyes and reaching for the Berocca, the moment has come to return to that fine tradition of predicting what the next 12 months hold in store.
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Wireless solutions -- they aren't all the same.
Commentary: Everything has a cheap microchip inside, so Intel's CTO figures everything can have a wireless connection, too. Is he an industry visionary? Or a corporate kook? Apparently, even Intel wondered.
For the last decade, my friend, colleague, and fellow columnist David Berlind of ZDNet has been using a laptop as his only computer. For almost as long, I've been trying to do the same thing--only I have given up on too many occasions to count.
During his keynote address at Macworld 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the long-rumoured iPhone.
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