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TELSTRA EXCHANGE|Archive: October, 2010

 

15 October 2010

Telstra removes unlock fee for Apple iPhone for jet-setting Aussies

Author: Kristen Boschma.
It is no secret that Telstra is changing and for the better.. At the centre of this is looking at ways we can better serve our customers.
One way to do this is to no longer charge customers a fee for unlocking an Apple® iPhoneTM they purchased from us.

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15 October 2010

Gaming to the mainstream?

Author: Sakshi Banerjee.
Have you ever wondered how we reached the state where gaming is an okay and even admired pastime? Where pulling out the Wii to play a few games at a dinner party is not only acceptable but something fun and enjoyable? Where children hero worship both Steve Jobs (Apple Founder) as well as Cristiano Ronaldo?

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14 October 2010

The cell phone salad

Author: Seigfred Dequito.
I’m on the train. I’m hungry. And it doesn’t help that with just a few finger-flicks on your mobile, you get a gazillion pictures of food on the net – or does it? Fantasy mode, on. I am now eating everything that is on my 3.5 inch mobile screen.

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13 October 2010

Telstra’s Pre-Paid Cap+… Even more value

Author: Rebekah O’Flaherty.
Today we’re launching increased bonus data inclusions on the hugely popular Pre-Paid Cap+ offer; tripling the data at the $30 recharge level. That’s on top of the massive value customers already get on Pre-Paid Cap+.

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13 October 2010

Improving self-serve options for our customers

Author: Karen Ganschow.
As Australians win gold in sport, it appears we’re also winning gold in terms of our Internet use.
For instance, we recently conducted research which revealed 85% of Aussies prefer doing simple transactions on their PC or mobile phone, rather than in person or over the phone.

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12 October 2010

Windows Phone 7 – a new challenger arrives

Author: Richard Fink.
A lot has been said and written about whether Microsoft can make it in the smarpthone game. But all you have to do is pick up a new Windows Phone 7 mobile, flick through its panoramic hubs and see how it brings elements of its Xbox LIVE®, Microsoft® Office and Windows® Live services to the small screen to realise that it’s game-on for the smartphone competition.

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11 October 2010

Terabyte delight?

Author: Heath Gibson.
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the emergence of home broadband plans offering a terabyte of data, with a flurry of internet providers getting in on the act. Competition has even reached the point where a certain provider launched a 1.1 terabyte plan to one-up its rivals.

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08 October 2010

Music to your ears

Author: Larry Sixsmith.
As I catch the bus to work I see more and more people with head phones in their ears. Often I think to myself, what are they listening to? If I asked do they say “mind your own business” or do they tell me.

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06 October 2010

Discovery 2 has landed

Author: Mike Taylor.
Until now I had written my fat fingers off as a twisted turn of fate – a curse that meant any ambition of being a brain surgeon were genetically extinguished by my sausage like digits.

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06 October 2010

Get your goggles on!

Author: Mat Unwin.
Google’s ‘Goggles’ – a visual search application that has been available since last year on the Android platform – has finally made it’s way to the iphone.

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