| Free local phone calls under review | |
| |
| The question of whether free local phone calls are going to continue is to be part of a fundamental review of telecommunications services principles being sought by the government. Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe says the local service Telecommunications Service Obligations (TSO) are regarded by the industry as “clumsy, time-consuming and an expensive tax on entrants”. < ... |  | |
| Read this blog entry |
|
|
| Amazon to launch streaming video | |
| |
| | Amazon.com Inc, the largest Internet retailer, will launch a streaming video service in the next few weeks to augment its digital offerings, the company's chief executive said. Read more… | | |
|
|
|
|
Telstra goes Star Wars
with hologram demo | |
| |
| | Australian telecommunications company Telstra is claiming a national first, after beaming a mobile three-dimensional image of its chief technology officer, Hugh Bradlow, from Melbourne to Adelaide to give a live business presentation. Read more… | | |
|
|
|
|
YouTube suit called threat
to online communication | |
| |
| | $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said. Read more… | | |
|
|
|
|
|
|