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My first fairytale… about Telstra

July 27th, 2006 · Comments

Once upon a time there was a big fat telco called Telstra. King Solomon ruled the villagers with an iron fist. Then, one day, the villagers heard about VoIP and were set free of the tyranny of long distance. Calls were cheap and all was well, until one day…
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SHOCK! Key Telstra supplier supports [...]

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Opera CEO wants widgets on mobiles

July 26th, 2006 · Comments

Opera's grand plan for widgets has become a bit clearer with the news that it plans to make its widgets run on mobile phones, TVs, car stereos … anything that can have a screen and a simple processor embedded.
This is potentially a very big leap forward in the mobile browsing space, because it's kinda [...]

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Internet sync: better than sex, sliced bread

July 23rd, 2006 · Comments

OK, I admit the headline is inflammatory: internet sync may not be better than sliced bread. But it is such a useful feature in software that supports it, the mystery is why more developers aren't doing it.
I don't believe that the next killer feature on the internet will be browser-based apps, but rather 'fat [...]

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