Tech News August 24, 2012
OFT makes special exemption for bumpkins’ wayleave charges Milking the cows of industry BT to speed up broadband rollout
Getting faster broadband connections in rural areas remains a bugbear for many of the locals who live in the harder-to-reach parts of Blighty. So clarification from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on competition law relating to wayleave rates has been unsurprisingly welcomed by landowners in the countryside today.…
Nokia, Samsung and pals team up to map malls, stations Alliance aims to develop standard for mobile floor plans
Nokia and Samsung have teamed up to try to standardise the technology used to for indoor location services.…
AT&T defends FaceTime price gouge Apple aren’t our competition, so we’re free to nobble them
AT&T has been busy …
Tech News August 23, 2012
Hong Kong, not China keeping Syria online PCCW carries lion’s share of traffic to war-torn land
Hong Kong telecoms giant PCCW (sometimes known as Pacific Century CyberWorks) is all-but-single-handedly keeping Syria online as US sanctions and probable infrastructure issues hit the war-torn country.…
Australia threatens telcos with mobile roaming price laws Roaming profit margins fall from 1000% to 300% but governments want more
Australia and New Zealand are considering legislation to prevent mobile carriers gouging customers when they use their phones overseas.…
T-Mobile USA: Our new unlimited data plan is actually unlimited Carrier compensates for iPhone-less inadequacy
Wireless carrier T-Mobile has what it describes as a “bold” new feature in store for its upcoming unlimited data plan: This time, it’s actually going to be …
Tech News August 22, 2012
Apple, Samsung blast away in patent case closing arguments Jury decision ‘could change the way competition works’ in US
They’re done. Apple and Samsung have each given their closing arguments in the epic patent trial over whether the South Korean mobile maker infringed on Cupertino’s iPhone patents. For the nine members of the jury, however, the next phase of the ordeal has only just begun.…
The problem with Foxtel’s call for NBN copyright cops Destroy the network to save the content
Kim Williams of Foxtel has become the latest high-profile executive to demonstrate a complete misapprehension of what the NBN is.…
Do Telstra’s call centre cuts add up? Analyst says web self-service doesn’t always mean fewer calls
Telstra has announced it will close …
Tech News August 21, 2012
News Ltd’s Australian chief demands copyright overhaul Wants anti-piracy role for National Broadband Network
The head of News Ltd’s Australian outpost has urged for an overhaul of copyright laws to take on the “copyright kleptomaniacs” and “digital suckers” that are robbing the Australian economy of AUD$1.37 billion annually in pirated film and TV content.…
Networking industry to collaborate on TERABIT Ethernet Network traffic projected to increase tenfold by 2015
Sensing mounting frustration that movies Linux ISOs aren’t downloading fast enough, the IEEE has announced a new group that aims to bring wired Ethernet speeds up to 1Tbps by 2015 and as fast as 10Tbps by 2020.…
Processor pioneer Victor Poor dies of cancer at 79 Modest designer of Intel’s first integrated processors
Obituary Victor …
Tech News August 20, 2012
China and Taiwan complete historic undersea cable Small cable is hugely significant
China and Taiwan have edged just a little bit closer with the completion of the first submarine telecoms cables between the two nations.…
Better onion anonymity possible: researcher Boost to reliability as well
Onion routing – which in spite of its DARPA genealogy are disliked by national security types – could be made more anonymous, according to a an Iranian researcher now working on a PhD at Concordia University in Montreal.…
Apple impasse sees China Mobile buy own speech tech How can we bring the iPhone to China’s largest 3G carrier, Siri?
China Mobile has made a defensive move against Apple’s plans to launch a Chinese version of Siri by courting its …