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I'm looking at moving my company's mobile phone services over to Telstra, and I wanted to do some checking of whether my new Nexus One (gift from GoogleIO 2010) was going to work on the NextG network. While some of the frequencies (2100MHz) overlap, my Nexus
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After making the decision to move our JIRA and Confluence development stack back in-house (after a year or so of using JIRA Studio), I also took the opportunity to pick up a few of Atlassian's other products thanks to their disruptive $10 Start Deals. One of these
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Update: I think Facebook are onto this; luckystar_profile is just one app that is doing this (I've now seen many more), and all have been removed by Facebook. Unfortunately, the spam photo albums are still everywhere. Yesterday afternoon, I received a Facebook notification from a friend I
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While I'd been meaning to play with Google's applications - and integrating them with our own Affinity - for some time, the launch of the Marketplace pushed this experimentation up the priority list. After spending a fair bit of time hacking on a Sunday, I'd managed
This week, ICT Illawarra hosted Air Commodore Anker Brodersen, Director General Defence Preparedness, and his colleague, Rick Souness, who runs the Defence Materiel Office's (DMO) Business Access Office, as they ran a half day workshop and a follow up day and a half of one on one
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A couple of good friends of mine, two of the warmest and most giving people in the Australian startup community got a big wet kiss - and a big cheque - after their startup, Tjoos.com, was acquired by Los Angeles based Internet Brands overnight. Founded by the necessity of globe-trotting
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While I'm sure the details will wash through over time, this story about Apple suing phone manufacturer HTC for Patent infringement really, really stinks. Compared to HTC, Apple is the new kid in the block. HTC has been manufacturing smartphones for longer than almost anybody. They were one
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Tonight I was lucky enough to meet Eric Ries, the founder/leader of the Lean Startup movement. Eric came to Sydney after being coaxed to this side of the Pacific by our ever resourceful and impressive friends, the Kiwi's, for Webstock, and Mick Liubinskas and Michelle Williams did
While Startup Camp Sydney #3 was on this weekend, I was stuck in the middle of a very different engineering project - Backyard 2.0. Following on from Frontyard 2.0 this time last year, a bunch of us - thanks Mum, Pete, Amanda and Luke - got stuck into the back yard
After reading Techcrunch's post about following the Winter Olympics online, and realising that expensive broadcast rights would mean accessing international content from Australia would be tough, I headed over to ninemsn, the web presence for Australia's Channel 9, who have the rights to the 2010 Winter
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Well, today is Valentines Day. As is the case with most things, The Simpsons got it right in this episode, which went on to win an Emmy back in 1998. You only need to watch the first 2 mins to get the joke. 09.22 Enjoy ;-)
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Just a small hat-tip to my home town basketball team, the Wollongong Hawks, who tonight are playing their last home game for the regular season, 2009/10. I remember with the sadness and disappointment a crowd of about 6000 people felt when the Hawks played what we all thought