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Simon Hendery: Broadsides and broadbandThose attending the Tel.Con9 telecommunications talkfest were left in no doubt there is an election looming.
As the event's first speaker, Communications Minister David Cunliffe was on his political game, selling Labour's $500 million Broadband Investment Fund and the emerging positive results of the Government's recent regulatory overhaul of the telco sector.
June 26, 2008
Yahoo shares climb on talk of Microsoft rethinkYahoo's steadily sinking stock pulled out of its descent yesterday on reports that the internet pioneer is reconsidering its recent decision to fall into the arms of online search leader Google instead of Microsoft.
The prospect of Yahoo spurning Google in favour of an alternative deal with Microsoft cheered investors still disillusioned with Yahoo's rejection of a US$47.5 billion ($62.7 billion) takeover offer from Microsoft.
June 26, 2008
SmartPay adds online calls to services packageLocal technology company SmartPay says its retailer customer base is becoming increasingly comfortable using broadband-based services, prompting it to offer a new phoneline-replacing, voice-over-internet (VoIP) service.
NZX-listed SmartPay has about 4500 retailers using its networked services, which include Eftpos connectivity over the internet, on-selling customer access to the country's largest wi-fi network, mobile phone top-up payment processing and in-store audio visual promotional systems.
June 26, 2008
Year of 'giant leap forward' for telecomsErnie Newman never shies away from giving his colleagues in the telecommunications sector a serve if he thinks they deserve it.
At the moment, however, the chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association lobby group is upbeat about where the industry is headed.
June 26, 2008
Brain training software goes nutsNEW YORK - Chester Santos has been training his brain for seven years.
At 32, he's not worried about losing his memory. He's taking advantage of a growing market in "brain fitness" spurred by aging baby boomers.
June 25, 2008
Phone dead? Try dancingLONDON - What do you do if you are stuck in a field at a pop festival but there's trouble ahead because your mobile phone's battery is about to run out?
Thanks to a new gizmo, you now just need to face the music and dance.
June 25, 2008
Matsushita to mass-produce OLED TVsTOKYO - Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial is finalising plans to mass-produce 37-inch organic light-emitting diode TVs in three years, aiming to overtake rivals in the next-generation flat-TV race, the Sankei Shimbun daily reports.
The newspaper said that Matsushita would be the first to mass-produce OLED TVs of over 30 inches, and that the company aimed to challenge Samsung Electronics for the top share in the global flat-TV market.
June 25, 2008
Googlephone plans delayed: reportSAN FRANCISCO - Mobile phones under development by Google and its partners face slipping delivery schedules, with the first phones not likely to arrive until late 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Google had said eight months ago that the first phones to be built under the Android partnership umbrella would come out in the second half of 2008 and commitments from various handset makers and carriers appear to support this initial commitment.
June 25, 2008
Hacker suspended until end of yearA teenage hacker has been suspended from school until the end of the year, after he was found to have broken school rules by accessing other people's emails.
The Westlake Boys High School Year 13 student will be out of class for more than two terms but will remain on the roll and be "supported" with school materials.
June 25, 2008
Microhoo - the saga continuesNEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO - Shares of Yahoo rose as much as 11 per cent yesterday, reversing earlier declines, after contradictory reports on whether buyout talks with Microsoft were heating up again.
"People are attributing huge outcomes to very small pieces of information," said Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay, referring to a flurry of thinly detailed stories citing unnamed sources that caused Yahoo's stock to spike.
June 25, 2008
Nokia to buy SymbianHELSINKI - Nokia will buy all remaining shares it doesn't already own in British software firm Symbian Ltd. and establish a joint, open Symbian platform for mobile phones together with other handset makers.
The initiative will compete with Google's mobile operating system Android and similar systems from Apple and Microsoft.
June 25, 2008
PCs pass billion markThe number of personal computers in use around the world has surpassed one billion, with strong growth in emerging markets set to double the number of PCs by early 2014, research firm Gartner said.
Mature markets accounted for 58 per cent of the first billion installed PCs, but would account for only about 30 per cent of the next billion, Gartner said.
June 25, 2008
Broadband can bridge gap says telco expertNew Zealand's broadband network performance is lagging behind benchmark western European countries, but moves over the past 2 1/2 years - including the forced regulation of Telecom - means it is in a good position to catch up, a telecommunications conference has heard.
Michael Cranna, managing director of Epitiro Technologies, told the Tel.Con 9 conference in Auckland yesterday the country has come a long way but broadband policy should shift from a focus on penetration to speed.
June 25, 2008
High-tech backseat driver set for trialsCar systems that tell drivers of speed limits and reduce speed if they do not slow down are to be trialled in three Australian states.
The NSW Centre for Road Safety will install 100 cars with GPS devices that will notify drivers of the speed limit and warn them when they are going to fast.
June 25, 2008
'About time' for investment in broadband - TUANZWellington, June 24 NZPA - The fibre optic policies of both National and Labour will offset this country's isolation problem, a Telecommunications Summit in Auckland was told today.
Telecommunications Users Association (TUANZ) chief executive Ernie Newman said the two policies were quite different in detail.
June 24, 2008
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