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DATA BACKUP SOFTWARE HARDWARE - Marketing Opportunity

Yes, If you are a manufacturer or distributor of any decent DATA BACKUP Software (maybe a Dantz or a Norton) or if you are a data hardware backup vendor (like MAXTOR or Buffalo), then call me NOW, as I have the perfect sponsorship opportunity!! This sponsorship opportunity will give you an ENORMOUS amount of high profile publicity with a leading and rapidly growing web based "podcast" network.

Just restore one hard drive form having been formatted and supply a 300GB hard drive and some back-up software and I can almost guarantee a life-time of exposure on almost a hunderd podcasts every month! 

(Sorry Cameron, I do think that you have a good chance at getting your data back - Let's see if we can generate some other benefit from what can only be viewed as a real shitty "turn"

Two Letter Australian Domain Names - Update

ollowing on from the recent AUCTION of a limited number of Australian two letter domain names... It looks like the "lucky" purchasers (at just under $AUD 10,000 each approximately) of web-site domain names www.re.com.au

and www.hr.com.au have gone public on their future plans for these sites.

 

I must confess to having thrown in a few bids for the domain name www.hr.com.au, but I pulled out well below the $5k mark. hr.com.au  that would have been a good domain name for a headhunter to own and turn into an HR portal... ANYHOW, let's see what the owners of this internet real estate actually do with it, how things go for them. STAY TUNED!

Google Desktop Search Does not work correctly on my computer

Who else is finding that their installation of Google Desktop search is not indexing fully? Is anyone aware of what anti-virus/spyware programs might interfere with Google desktop search??

Two Letter .au domain names auctioned today

Today, Netregistry auctioned off a selection of two letter domain names - one of which was the domain name that would give you the web address www.hr.com.au . YES HR.COM.AU!!  It sold for about $AUD7,000 - which I think is INCREDIBLY CHEAP - what is it really worth??  The other name that went for around $7k - $10k was www.re.com.au  - Could this be a competitor to realestate.com.au??

The two letter domain names were auctioned by www.netregistry.com.au and the auction closed at 5pm AEST today (Friday 19th May, 2006). The same person appears to have bought the two most expensive domains - hr.com.au and re.com.au   - now, I'll watch carefully to see what happens with these domains - if they are re-sold or actually used - and if they are re-sold - for how much... STAY TUNED...

iSignage - Real Estate Window Display System

Leading real estate agents in Melbourne are installing iSignage property display systems to replace the static window displays that typically consist of perspex frames suspended by wire with property brochures inserted into the clear perspex frames. Hocking Stuart and Buxtons; both strong multi-branch franchise market leaders in the Melbourne real estate market have installed these systems in a number of their key branch locations.

Here is a picture of the Hocking Stuart office in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Mentone.

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Below is a picture of the screens in the widow of Buxton's in the Melbourne suburb of Chelsea.

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The key features of the iSignage system are;

• No purchase or insatllation cost - Zero Capital Outlay
• All property information appears automatically - no manual input required
• The screen displays are information rich, high resolution displays
• Multiple photos and floor plan are displayed for every property
• All property detail changes are reflected automatically on window displays
• Displays Open For Inspection times and agent-in-charge details

As a conscientous blogger, I feel obliged to declare that I have an "interest" in the proliferation of these screens as I am directing the sales and marketing for iSignage.
I am looking for organisations who have a large installed base of real-estate agent clients who would be interested in exploring the adding of the iSignage system to their portfolio of product and service offerings.

Please contact me at [email protected] for further information.

Optus EMAIL Outage

OPTUS Email

Message posted at: 2006-03-01 21:17

What: Email outage
When: Current
Duration: Ongoing
Impact: Customers cannot send or receive emails due to an outage affecting our mail servers. Optus Engineers are aware of the problem and are looking to resolve this as soon as possible. Optus apologises for any inconvenience this may cause, your patience with this matter is greatly appreciated. Additional Info:

After an hour of trying to "fix"my outlook, computer, wireless router, I decided to ping" the Optusnet mail server and guess what?? No response. So, I went to the OPTUS home page and the above message was found posted under network status or similar.

I would rather never suffer an EMAIL outage but I must say, it was very helpful to find that there IS a problem with the OPTUS Mail (not my configuration),and that there was a message about it on the OPTUS web site. OK - good job OPTUS for having the message up - good luck with getting us back on-line.

"Unwords" - to help express those ideas...

that are not catered for adequately in our current set of words .... www.unwords.com Check out this site - found this very amusing...

For example ...here are some entries just from the "A's"..
 

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Interesting Article on ADSL-2

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/28/1111862289207.html

Telstra has 7000 CDMA mobile broadband customers

I can tell you, as a customer of the Telstra mobile CDMA broadband service since November 2004 that I am a very "happy camper" - excellent coverage in Melbourne and capital city centres at the fast speed - seamless roaming in most areas - The Hutchison "3" service (and presumably onto Telstra's GPRS service) with a $99 "cap" is much more expensive if you go out of 3's UMTS area - 3's roaming charges apperar to be a shade under $5 per megabyte - which are not included in the $99 cap!!

I am also an IBURST customer using the VERITEL service - which operates at 1 Mbps (in what is a very small  (but rapidly expanding) footprint in capital cities). The good thing about the IBURST service is that the card is compatible with MACS!! IBURST works out at a flat $64.95 for about 300mb per month - really only a choice if you are in the IBURST reception area most of your time.

If I could only pick one card to take away on a business trip today, it would be the Telstra Sierra Air card every time.
(Below is a link to and partial extract from an article in today's Melbourne Age...)

Telstra claims win in new generation
By Colin Kruger
Sydney
March 29, 2005

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"Telstra is claiming success with its initial push into wireless broadband, reporting that 7000 customers have signed up for its CDMA network's mobile broadband service in the three months since its launch in November.

The new service is a taste of things to come, with Telstra due to launch true 3G services in the second half of the year by piggybacking on Hutchison Telecom's high-speed network.

"The success of our mobile broadband service is a good indicator that our mobile-based (3G) voice and content mobile phone offer will be well received by the market," said the head of Telstra's technology and product group, Ted Pretty, in a prepared statement.

Mr Pretty is expected to deliver an address to the Australian Israeli Chamber of Commerce today, where he will promote the success of the CDMA (code-division multiple access) network service, which has been marketed to corporate customers.

Telstra said customer numbers had grown by about 50 per cent on a month-on-month basis, while the volume of data usage had actually exceeded the rate of customer growth.

"The Telstra mobile broadband plans have been well received by the market and we are ahead of forecast," Mr Pretty said.

Telstra's new service is offered on sectors of its CDMA network that have received an upgrade, enabling speeds of between 300 and 600 kilobits a second.

The wireless broadband space is expected to heat up further, with Vodafone and Optus expected to join Hutchison and Telstra in offering high-speed 3G services later this year.

Hutchison is the only carrier that is at present providing the high-speed 3G services in Australia.

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Interesting Times for Web/

This is an interesting article for those of us who were unable to attend Web 2.0 in the US this year. Provides an interesting insight to what is going on at the grass roots development, business, company, product level right now in the US and provides some insight for the bigger picture which is what we see reported more frequently over here in OZ.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives/000881.php