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The Incumbent - where bill shock is fatal.
OUT NOW ON KINDLE. PAPERBACK AND AUDIOBOOK: When bright young graduate Jimi Jones is refused a job at VastTel, the nation's biggest phone company, he has no idea it's because the company actively avoids recruiting anyone with a spark of intelligence. Thankfully, the firm’s institutionalised incompetence means he gets the job anyway. What follows is an intricate web of murder plots, government conspiracies and rampant tanning. Oh, and the future of the entire nation. Read the first chapter and find out how to buy a paper or ebook copy OR order the audiobook
Vivid's wireless windfall
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 00:00
Senator Stephen Conroy's undertaking on the pricing of wireless spectrum renewals seems to offer a very favourable deal to Vividwireless. What's going on?
There are now more than 500 million internet users in China, soaking up more than 330 million IPv4 web addresses. That might seem a drop in the ocean (when IPv4 can theoretically support 4.29 billion addresses), but it's the potential for that number to grow that's the concern. While US allocations are slowing, China's are on the increase. The US last led the league table for allocations in 2008. Last year, China allocated 53 million IPv4 addresses, 2.6 times the number of allocations in the US.
This week's data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows a big rise in the number of unemployed people, while data from job site Seek is showing that ICT could be struggling more than most.
I have presented more than 860 episodes of BTalk for CBS. Here's a random episode. Find them all here.
771: Richard Wilkinson says a wide income gap is bad news for society - it increases crime, health and education, which affects everyone, even the rich.
The truth of the Costa Concordia disaster is out. Apparently it went close to an island and all the obese cruise passengers moved to one side of the ship to look out the window.
Anti-whalers have warned the Japanese that the next time they board a vessel they’ll have the Italian Captain Francesco Schettino with them.
North Korea is to embalm Kim Jong-Ils body and put it on display. Just like Channel Ten used to do with Bert Newton.
ANZ Bank is to make 130 people redundant, making them all destitute with little chance of ever finding work again. But they said they’re still prepared to offer them a mortgage.
Don't miss Twisted Week, my half hour podcast for the telecommunications industry, each Thursday on CBS tech site ZDNet Australia. Listen here.
BTalk on BNET
Daily business podcasts
Catch up with my BTalk podcast on BNET.com - daily advice and updates on business affairs, provided in a light hearted, easily digestable format. Listen here.
Articles
Figures tell the real story
I am writing a lot of content for CBS Interactive, peeling back data to find the truth on major issues in the news impacting the way we do business. Worth a look. Read more.
Video content
Every website demands multimedia
Find out how to produce video content for your website cost effectively. These days everyone is expecting a bit of multimedia content wherever they go online. Read more.
OUT NOW ON KINDLE. PAPERBACK AND AUDIOBOOK: When bright young graduate Jimi Jones is refused a job at VastTel, the nation's biggest phone company, he has no idea it's because the company actively avoids recruiting anyone with a spark of intelligence. Thankfully, the firm’s institutionalised incompetence means he gets the job anyway. What follows is an intricate web of murder plots, government conspiracies and rampant tanning. Oh, and the future of the entire nation.
