Other Recent Articles


View Archives

Most Popular Content

What is Delimiter?

Just Australia. Just technology.

Coming up

Opinion - Jul 28, 2010 15:33 - 3 Comments

iPhone 4: Is a Telstra plan worth the money?

opinion There is only one question that wannabe iPhone 4 owners need to ask themselves when gearing up to buy Apple’s hyped handset when it launches in Australia at midnight on Thursday night.

Can you afford to pay Telstra’s exorbitant prices for access to its superior network?

There is no question that if you can afford it, in July 2010, the best option for receiving reliable mobile access — especially data access — around Australia is to sign up for Telstra’s Next G network.

It’s a matter of record that then-Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo made Ericsson his whipping boy to build Next G throughout 2006 — phoning the Swedish vendor’s chief executive at odd hours and driving its engineers hard as they built out the network in record time across Australia.

But that record construction speed did not result in a record number of bugs — Next G has proven remarkably stable over the years, and Telstra has continued to invest in the network, adding base stations and upgrading wireless speeds, as well as building out fibre connections to towers to boost their overall capacity.

Continue…

More In Opinion


Featured Opinion

Features, Reviews - Jul 16, 2010 14:01 - 22 Comments

Amazon Kindle store + device: The Australian difference

review Amazon might have started selling its Kindle range of eBook readers in Australia late last year, but there is a world of difference between the performance of the device and range of the Kindle bookstore in Australia compared with Amazon’s home country of the US.

This article will document that difference to make it clear what readers are — and aren’t — getting when they buy a Kindle in Australia — specifically focusing on the Australian aspects of the device without going into a general review of the entire platform.

For the purposes of this review we borrowed a Kindle DX from Amazon, as well as consulting with colleagues based in the US for comparison purposes.

Continue…

More In Features


Features

Profiles - Jul 23, 2010 10:05 - 0 Comments

Friday Five: Google’s Raul Vera

Every Friday we’ll profile a prominent figure from Australia’s IT, telecommunications or video gaming industries in the Friday Five.

Raul Vera is an engineering manager at Google’s Australia/NZ headquarters in Sydney, overseeing Google Maps engineering. He has been involved in digital media technology for over 25 years, as a software developer, architect, entrepreneur, and team leader. But he doesn’t spend all his time in front of a computer. Sometimes he does engineering the old fashioned way — working with his hands with more natural materials.

1. What was your first job ever?

My family was living in Switzerland, in Geneva. I worked for a summer in a shop that sold fabric and linens. I was the boy who put stuff away and cleaned up after the sales people had taken it all out to make a sale. I was 18 and had a great time. My French has a slight Swiss accent because of that summer.

Continue…

More In Profiles


Profiles