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Monday Evening (2 Comments) (link)
 Monday, 6-April-2009  17:59:12 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Sniper spotted this chat with Simon Hackett, the CEO of Internode. We talk about their upcoming 3G mobile and 3G broadband services, Basslink, Telstra’s ‘ridiculous wholesale pricing’, TiVo, unmetering of content and how they can afford to do it as well as their efforts to deliver ‘last mile broadband’ to those in the Yorke Peninsula area in Sourth Australia.

Apparently complaints about Telstra have shot up under their current leadership. "It's frustrating because you can't get through and when you do no one can tell you anything," Telstra Bigpond customer Michael Murray said.

Meanwhile the head of the ACMA has blamed the media for whipping up controversy about the blacklist. Mr Chapman said the watchdog was looking at ways to prevent further leaks. "The events of the past week have obviously and understandably raised concerns about the security of the distribution and protection of the list in use," he said. "As you would expect, we are investigating and pursuing this with a view to rectifying and improving it."

HWZone report from the Asian finals of the Gigabyte overclocking tournament. The best overclockers from Asia-Pacific had been gathered to form nine teams for this Asian final. While cash and prizes from the sponsors were prepared for the top three teams, only the best team will earn a spot in the world final to be held in Taipei.

Intel say their graphics chips are gaining ground in the gaming market. "There are games actually targeting integrated graphics chipsets at this time," according to Davies. "We found through engaging with these Triple A (AAA) game studios that within a relatively short amount of time, they can identify graphics bottlenecks in their code and resolve that to have their games running on integrated graphics chipsets."

From Drnrg: one of my friends at work linked me to this 'webtrends' map which basically maps the 333 most influential web domains and 111 most influential internet people onto a map of the tokyo subway.
check it out for more info
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Guru3D have an overclocking guide for GTX 275 video cards. The end result of 2 minutes work is 10 to 15 percent more performance. Join us for a quick crash course in graphics card tweaking.

Rupert Murdoch has a few things to say about the online newspaper industry. "People reading news for free on the Web, that's got to change," said Murdoch speaking at The Cable Show, an annual cable television industry event, in Washington, D.C. The article also mentions they might be making their own e-book reader like Amazon's Kindle.



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