This is why I love BRAN, the tech podcast by Aussie journos Angus Kidman, Nathan Taylor and Roulla Yiaccoumi: a quote from the latest episode (90): "Every site Sensis has rolled out is … let's not mince words… TOTAL SHIT…"
I…
This is why I love BRAN, the tech podcast by Aussie journos Angus Kidman, Nathan Taylor and Roulla Yiaccoumi: a quote from the latest episode (90): "Every site Sensis has rolled out is … let's not mince words… TOTAL SHIT…"
I…
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I encourage you not to watch the below video, which pokes fun at Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo, calls him an "Ass Sol" and other childish barbs. It is not funny and is an abomination.
No really, do not click play. Move…
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Stuart Corner at ITwire has written a great opinion piece that succinctly explains why Telstra's whiney politicking is so unconvincing.
Stuart is responding to Sol Trujillo's recent propaganda-laden speech to the AIIA luncheon, where the theme was an "inconvenient truth" for…
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To the many, many people from across the tech and media industry who have emailed letters of support to me about Telstra (thank you, I will get back to you all individually in the next few days :-), I was…
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Well, it's been an interesting couple of days — I wrote a fairly innocuous story about how a number of online polls run by Telstra showed embarrassing results for the telco, and that triggered an avalanche of angry emails from…
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Rod Bruem's latest spin on Telstra's Now We Are Talking website:
"While the G9, G11, T4 PR teams are running their anti-Telstra rhetoric, Telstra is running a positive campaign focussed on the future of Australia."
Telstra is running a positive campaign…? POSITIVE?
Publicly attacking…
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The only time I've ever felt like I wanted to tap my feet along to what Sol Trujillo was saying…
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UPDATE | Telstra's Rod Bruem has contacted me and says he is 'not sure what happened to [that] comment' and suggested I resubmit it.
UPDATE | Telstra has modified Rod Bruem's blog post and removed the gratuitous 'ja'.
For the last week…
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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…
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Mega telco Telstra revealed the following staggering news on its corporate blog today: Alcatel, the key supplier that stands to earn billions from building Telstra's Australian fibre-to-the-node network has come out in support of Telstra and against its competitors.
Where would…
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I'm not normally a watcher of A Current Affair, but Kate finds it entertaining and I sometimes sit down to have a laugh at the story topics… dodgy plumbers, reincarnations of the Paxtons, miracle hair treatments and how much a…
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I just posted this comment at Whirlpool at about Telstra's proposed "Fibre to the Node" network.
Thorpiedo wrote:
Some of Telstra's proposals are outrageous, but some (i.e. FTTN) would solve many problems we currently face with the availability of higher-speed broadband in…
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