Posts in the "Technology" Category

• OK here’s the Big Pond rant

  Broadband Network
  

  I have spent many hours ‘on hold’ this week listening to Telstra’s selection of music waiting to get a problem with my home broadband service rectified. I changed to Big Pond about 2 years ago and when I get really pissed off with their call centre staff I comfort myself by comparing it to some [...]

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• Who will pay extra for fibre to the home broadband?

  Broadband Network
  

  Zillion TV, as you read in my last post, are about to serve up free on demand TV services to homes in the US using a business model based on personalised advertising. An interesting innovation at GDC this year is covered in a story on the BBC technology pages about a new on demand video [...]

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• Does digital rights management have a future?

  DRM
  Apple’s Steve Jobs has called for the record industry to abandon digital rights management for all online music stores. He has posted a statement on the Apple web site which argues the case for abandoning a system about which Apple often takes flack from consumers. The main complaints are its restrictions on 5 copies and [...]

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