Nathan Taylor
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iPhone In Australia: Is It Optus Now?
Even though we still have no idea when it will hit our shores, the rampant speculation about who will have the iPhone in Australia continues. Last week it was Telstra that was the favourite to have the iPhone in Australia, thanks to the news that Sensis is developing applications for the iPhone. This weeks it’s…
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Get Wikipedia To Tell You About Your Local Area with Wikinear
Wired’s Compiler blog has the first take I’ve seen on a potentially very cool service called Wikinear. Wikinear works with Yahoo’s Fire Eagle geolocation service (currently in private beta) and Google Maps to locate sites of interest close to your current location. It then polls Wikipedia for information on those sites, giving you a virtual tour guide…
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Qantas Providing Internet Access and Texting on Domestic Flights
At the end of last week, Qantas revealed that it would be offering in-flight Net access on domestic flights by the end of the year. The service will appear first on domestic B767-300 and A330-200 aircraft. It also revealed the technology it would be using for its service. You’d think Wi-Fi would be the sensible…
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Windows 7 to be Modular?
Thanks to a blog entry by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, there has been some fairly wild speculation flying around the Internets that the next version of Windows, due in 2010, will be modular. That is, you will be able to pick and choose components to have at install time, allowing you to build a version of…