As an avid fan of the Karate Kid series I thought I might postulate on the teacher vs student conundrum that is the Blackboard

Last week we launched our first Mobile FOXTEL app for Apple iPhones. It makes switching between and loading Mobile FOXTEL channels — including FOX8, FOX Sports News TV, Fashion TV and MTV – even more intuitive.

Women make 70% of purchasing decisions that determine household carbon footprint. Women answering opinion polls consistently out-score men in supporting serious action on the environment by governments, business and individuals. Women bring incredible energy and social networking skills to addressing society’s great challenges. And women are significantly more likely than men – 56% to 46% more – to expect the highest environmental and climate performance from businesses, according to a recent national poll by AMR Interactive.

Telstra CTO Hugh Bradlow’s keynote presentation at Mobile World Congress on “A world of applications” continues to generate online discussion about the role of carriers in relation to applications, and how these can best be monetised.

I’m writing this from the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – the global trade show for the mobile industry. Tuesday, Barcelona time, we teamed up with our partner HTC to preview a new smartphone that’s really significant for Telstra.

Social media and the corresponding advances in technology should be encouraging corporate communicators to ask ‘what are the new rules of success in a social media enabled media environment?’

Telstra is coming up with ways of encouraging people to take another look at our brand, to change their perceptions of it and cast it in a contemporary, more dynamic light.

Telstra’s Ross Fielding, Hugh Bradlow, Mike Wright and Richard Fink joined HTC CEO Peter Chou to announce Telstra’s first Android smartphone – the HTC Desire.