Filed under: customers, gadgets and gizmos, health, innovation, lifestyle, mobile handsets, mobile phone, networks, smart phones, technology, thinking
Author: Hugh Bradlow.
I was somewhat surprised to see in the recent debate on Australia’s health system that delivering hospital beds cost $1m per bed.
The combination of an ageing population and high medical costs make it imperative to find alternative ways of delivering health care and inevitably one must turn to the opportunities provided by technology in this regard.
Filed under: 3G, customers, lifestyle, mobile handsets, mobile internet, networks, Next G™, technology, wireless
Author: Rod Bruem.
This week Telstra Country Wide celebrates its 10th anniversary and I’m among those celebrating. Few people could have imagined a decade ago how far rural telecommunications would have come in a relatively short space of time.
Telstra’s competitors are still trying to catch up with Next G. If you live in the country or like to go bush often like I do, then it pays to check out the coverage – especially if you’re thinking of buying products like the new Apple iPad.
Filed under: ADSL, broadband, entertainment, Facebook, gadgets and gizmos, innovation, lifestyle, music, radio, social media, T-Hub, Twitter, wireless
Author: Michael Lewis.
For the past few weeks I have been playing with the T-Hub. When I got it home, I was sure the family would react the same way my parents’ generation did when the first black and white televisions were introduced into the family home for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
Filed under: broadband, customers, entertainment, gadgets and gizmos, innovation, IPTV, lifestyle, technology, Television, trends
Author: David Chang.
Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV, very simplistically delivers television by telephone, using the same broadband cable you currently surf the World Wide Web on.
Filed under: customers, cyber safety, education, entertainment, Facebook, lifestyle, mobile handsets, mobile internet, SMS, social media, Twitter
Author: Darren Kane.
In the past, people have said to me: “you’re never going to be strapped in next to Andy Thomas to fly the shuttle”. After working out what it meant and realising I couldn’t run fast enough to catch the culprit, it got me thinking.
Filed under: business, innovation, networks, Next G™, technology, wireless
Author: Hugh Bradlow.
One of the hallmarks of a progressive company or country is planning for an uncertain future. While there are many “unknown unknowns” to quote Donald Rumsfeld, we should still be testing out different options and possibilities that may arise, preferably in order of likelihood and priority.
Filed under: BlackBerry, customers, Facebook, gadgets and gizmos, lifestyle, mobile handsets, mobile internet, social media, Twitter
Author: Ross Fielding.
Last week Telstra became the first telco in the world to offer the stylish new BlackBerry Pearl 3G smartphone.
It is available exclusively for three months on Telstra’s Next G™ network.
Filed under: apps, customers, Facebook, gadgets and gizmos, innovation, lifestyle, mobile internet, mobile phone, social media, trends, Tribe, Twitter
Author: George Tsigounis.
We’ve been working on a new mobile social networking service that we hope you’ll like. It’s called Tribe® and it’s exclusive to Telstra Next G™ customers.
