Posts Tagged with ‘Australia’

One unpopular prime minister, John Howard, was ousted in Australia’s November ’06 election for his unwavering support for Operation Iraqi Destruction. His replacement, Kevin Rudd, is now under fire not two months into his first term for an initiative which would enact the filtration of the nation’s entire Internet backbone, much to the apparent anger and dismay of its citizens.
The filter’s purpose? To put a halt to rampant nakedness. Literally.
It’s been just a short while since word first crept about [...]

Skype has for a while shown to maintain just a small piece of itself in the world of wireless communications, what with its relatively lackluster sales of Skype-specific handsets (think Netgear, Philips, and SMC VoIP devices). Now the eBay-owned company is set to enter into the great big sea of cordless chatter with its announcement of the impending debut of its first cellular-network-backed handset in a new partnership with the international cellular network, 3.
The device, to be made available on [...]

Ever heard of FON? It?s a WiFi network, built, wonderfully enough, by individual consumers and small businesses in Europe and many other parts of the world.
It works on a tiered system of paid and free access. If people opt in to become a ?Fonero? and set up a FON account and hotspot of their own, they can get free access from any other FON hotspot in the world. If one doesn?t complete all aforementioned introductory steps, one can still [...]

Here’s a humorous bit of info to carry you into the weekend.
A communications giant by the name of Telstra, based in Australia, has put in place an internal ban on Facebook. That’s right. 49,000 people whose task it is to keep fellow Aussies online and exchanging packets and dialogue and whatnot have been told they absolutely cannot under any circumstances do the same during their daily/nightly shifts. I think that calls for a chuckle or two, don’t you?
Just to muse [...]

Nowadays we have various social networks for almost all of our online activities and communications. Today I would like to review a social network for Australian students that is very young but seems to be lively already – StudentFace. The founders of StudentFace were inspired by the mesmerizing success of Facebook. They thought if such a success was possible at all, it could be possible in Australia as well. And so this August the project was launched.
For me the strangest [...]