NBN Satellite one Small Step for Australia

Finally, Finally!

Lets just say If Kevin Rudds Era  had one legacy it would be a satellite.

Julia Gillard And Steven Conroy Should be rightly proud that IF the rest of the party was a was hout this fireworks moment should leave a shining star in Geostationery orbit above our sparse land.

Read more fro mthe professional Authors at the ABC ABC here,
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-01/nbn-satellite-launches-heavy-users-may-pay-more-in-remote-areas/6820004

Coverage Zones
from the NBN Team
http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/images/blog/skymuster-map-1024.jpg

Telstra's annoucement adds Fuel to the fire of NBN

Telstra's Move into the Dual Channel Wireless delivery mode Provides a watershed moment that the Major Party (Liberals and Labour) NBN posturing during the recent election was Politically fuelled hubris. Only the most naive elector could have considered either sides arguments to be representative of a mature view of the most critical piece of missing Australian infrastructure.

Australia's needs for robust Infrastructure Plans are unclear. It would be easier to say dissarray as it appears Steve Conroy's stewardship has only only halted the backwards slide that we suffered under the Previous Federal government's 11 years.

Telstra unveils "unlimited" wireless broadband for business - Strategy - Your Business - News - CRN Australia

Applestore starts prep for iPhone 5?

Was this just a regular apple store update on the 2nd of august or can we read in some prep work is completed?

Time will tell

Wireless Goes Primetime

Wireless Internet has been the poor cousin in many ways for most of the developed world.  Performance has been notably hit and miss and the mainstream engineering ethos has been often characterised by the refrain 'What do you expect? its WIRELESS !'. Clearly technologists have dropped the ball in most respects as modern human activity is destined to be wireless. In other areas of human endevour we have consiously and diligently pushed marginal technology into the mainstream and NOW is Wireless communications time.


Telstra Multi-Vendor 42Mbit per second Wireless Video shows the maturation of Common HSPA using a Dual Channel Method to deliver primetime Comms over 'air'

GoldiLocks was right

Here's a nice comparison Photo of the ipPad and iPod /iPhone sized device.
The question is Will another device Land in the middle ?

Keep this post bookmarked and When we get our iPad we'll do a side by side Lenovo X61 With Tablet Versus iPod v iPad comparison.
Here's the Prerequisite Microsim
Which is now available from Telstra and other Providers in Australia.

Carrier Carry Bag For Phone Vendors

Difficult new regulatory environments are nothing new to Carriers. Carriers are straining under their partner's business models, as The Big 3 Motorola Nokia and New Boy Apple fight for the palm space spending zone.

Australia's Competition watchdog the Austrlaian Competition and Consumer Commission ( akin the the USA's Department of Justice Antitrust Division) has announced that a recent decision to enforce matching HARDWARE warranty and Carrier Plan terms. this is a fundamental shift in the this arena as consumers are faced commonly with longer term plans than the warranty offered.

"The ACCC believes the handset is an integral part of the package and if it fails through no fault of the consumer, the company is responsible for replacement or repair."

Historically the device and the connection have co-existed as parallel elements under the contractual umbrella of the Carriers Plan but now they are inextricably to be linked.


 Prediciton?

1. Prices will rise to cover the cost of broken devices  (especially iPads)
2. Carriers will stop Offering Subsidised high value Phones

BumpTop Gets Google Launch

As we accelerate toward a near future of converged communications devices with 3D, TV, Multi - Touch interactive, Skype enabled interfaces. It seems Google have executed a flanking move and grabbed a cornerstone technology from BumpTop.

This move is not without precedent as we recall the Apple aquisition of Fingerworks the now Famous Touch interface Research developer. If you've forgotten watch this and keep you ipod handy for reference

Adobe TED Presentation by Fingerworks' Jeff Han


For old timers who may remember Sony's attempt in the early 90's on the palmtop platforms of the time with a metaphorical 3D Spatial interface After 18 years the 3d World comes to Google as a Desktop.

The Sony Platformed MagicCap interface was a break though concept at the time but the platform like the following Apple Newton was just a bridge too far at the time.
Here's some snapshots for your research list.


Prediction
1. You won't see this launched as an application but your will see It's technology embedded in the upcoming Google apps
2. you will be wanting one of these Lenovo W510 Series with the "hidden option of Multi-touch

For the Hidden option read the Parts spec sheet ( you'll see the W510 has a replacement part for a touch screen ) It seems this is still not orderable perhaps some one else has snapped up all the production ?

Or the now Shipping 24 Inch ThinkVision Multitouch Screen for your exiting deskop or laptop.



YouTube - Samples
BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype - www.bumptop.com

Mulit Touch