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    What's not in a name?

    The dullest observation you can possibly make about information technology is that it should be designed to serve the needs of the business, rather than the technology experts.

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    Best Telstra YouTube videos

    Your intrepid reporter braves the horde of user-generated videos on YouTube to find the best (and most amusing) content related to the nation's biggest telco Telstra.

  • Lies, damned lies and telco stupidity

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    iPhone suckers test our patience

    So how many of you have bought a 3G iPhone? Do you feel like a sucker? If you don't, maybe you will once your first bill arrives.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Once a pit bull, Terria is losing its bite

    The inference that Soul, AAPT and TransACT were Dead Telcos Walking long before their withdrawals were announced makes me wonder whether Terria has always been, God help us all, just as flimsy a proposition as Telstra has made it out to be.

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  • BT Design: JP Rangaswami, CIO

    JP Rangaswami, managing director at BT Design, talks about transformation and convergence at one of the worlds' largest telecommunication companies, and, his belief in Web 2.0 and the power of social networking. Rangaswami speaks with ZDNet's Dan Farber, sharing his visionary thoughts about the tech industry. And why he calls himself the managing director instead of chief information officer.

  • Cartoon: Terria's flesh wound

    Telstra's Now We Are Talking resident cartoonist Mikko lampoons Terria's rapidly declining list of members.

  • BT bets on open development

    BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble?

  • Shocking times for Aussie broadband over powerline

    It seemed like a good idea at the time, but Australian utilities' recent abandonment of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology has all but sealed the fate of a technology that was once hoped to bring high-speed data to every corner of Australia.

  • Around the world in.... WiMax

    WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.

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  • Aussie telco competition is going backwards: CCC

    In 2005, telecoms competition was gaining its legs, but since then it has suffered a turnaround, going backwards while it rushes ahead in the rest of the world, according to David Forman, executive director of the Competitive Carriers' Coalition.

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  • Hutchison signs new mobile content deal

    Hutchison Telecom has announced new content for customers of its '3' mobile network to satisfy their thirst for financial news.

  • Vodafone Mobile Connect 3G HSDPA Card

    Vodafone's enhanced notebook PC Card delivers what the mobile telco calls 'business class 3G broadband' -- but until more of the 3G network is upgraded with HSDPA, most users will remain stuck in economy seats.

  • Hutchison outsources Australian 3G operations

    Hutchison Telecoms, which owns Orange, has outsourced the operation of its Australian mobile networks to Ericsson Australia in a seven-year deal that is expected to save the telco over AU$40 million.

  • Mobiles transform into mosquito repellers

    Asian mobile firms have developed a ringtone that wards off mosquitoes.

  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

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