Telstra's CDMA network cannot be sold off
telecommunications, posted: 2-May-2006 11:03
Well, there goes Telecom New Zealand's hope for providing CDMA roaming in Australia in the future. The spectrum is being redeployed for Telstra's UMTS or WCDMA network instead, which means that soon, Telecom New Zealand will be the only CDMA
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Woosh upgrades to 1Mbit/s
wireless, posted: 1-May-2006 09:11
An email from Woosh arrived in my inbox this morning:
Dear Juha, At Woosh we strive to give you the best value phone and broadband packages possible. To further enhance your online experience we are pleased to inform you that we are (read the entire post)...
Windows Live Shopping - but only with Internet Explorer
Internet, posted: 30-Apr-2006 11:12
The excellent TechCrunch site reports that Microsoft has launched its Windows Live Shopping site (hmm... shouldn't that be Live Windows Shopping instead?). But, Firefox users are once again shut out, ditto Opera 8.5x and Apple Safari customers.read the entire post)...
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Telecom New Zealand's local loop to be unbundled next week
telecommunications, posted: 28-Apr-2006 18:32
Rumours from Wellington - and that's all what they are at the moment - say the New Zealand government is not just fed up with Telecom's slow progress when it comes to rolling out broadband in the country but will actually do something about
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Record Skype calls and get Outlook integration with Skylook
telecommunications, posted: 27-Apr-2006 17:57
Seeing that the Geekzone blogs are abuzz with Skype related stuff at the moment, I thought I should add my 2c to the hullaballo. One thing that I've wanted for a long time is a way to record calls over Skype and thanks to Jeremy Wagstaff's Lo
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BBC 2.0 going down the YouTubes
Internet, posted: 26-Apr-2006 10:17
I guess it was inevitable given the enormous success "community content" has had lately, but it still seems wrong for Auntie Beeb to head in that direction as well. Wrong in the sense that the tax-payer funded broadcaster does "traditional" stuff pro
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NVIDIA's Nzone says no need to buy new hardware
gaming, posted: 25-Apr-2006 15:44
A press release arrived from Nvidia earlier, about a new feature on their Nzone "stealth sales portal". Quiet day, and I haven't checked out Nvidia's stuff for ages, so thought I'd write a few lines about the Husdawg-supplied System Requi
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UK broadband: miles ahead
broadband telecommunications voip, posted: 23-Apr-2006 16:41
As I wrote in this blog entry, Telecom New Zealand is trying to soften up public opinion so that people will think everyone's getting 24Mbit/s broadband this year (they're not) and the heat will come off the government to introduce further re
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Telecom softening up public opinion in preparation for no-regulation deal
broadband telecommunications voip, posted: 23-Apr-2006 14:37
Auckland's Sunday Star Times has a story entitled "Telecom's man - broadly speaking, we're good" running this weekend. It's a totally uncritical interview with Telecom New Zealand's manager of government and industry relations, Br
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Windows apps natively on Mac OS X next, says Cringely
operating systems, posted: 22-Apr-2006 11:17
Robert X Cringely's Pulpit column on Apple going the whole hog with Windows is too good not to link to.
That the Mach micro-kernel will be replaced with a larger but faster monolithic one in OS X 10.5 seems likely but for Apple to beco (read the entire post)...
That the Mach micro-kernel will be replaced with a larger but faster monolithic one in OS X 10.5 seems likely but for Apple to beco (read the entire post)...
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