I’m glad to be back home in Sydney, but Yelp is one of the few things that I still miss from living in the States. The restaurant tips site morphed into a feature-packed, heavily trafficked business review app for phones — and seriously craps on anything we’ve got here: I’m looking at you Google Places and TrueLocal. So we’re ripe for Yelp’s picking as they team up with Telstra-Sensis-Yellow Pages to open doors in Oz. More »
Even though there’s a deep loathing for the paper versions of the Yellow Pages among the Giz community, occasionally the Sensis directory can be useful. That’s why it’s good to hear that they have decided to launch a new iPad version of the directory, which offers the same content as the paper version, without the unnecessary wastage. More »
The US team were in celebration mode overnight as it finally became possible for them to cancel their Yellow Pages delivery. And as commenter Molokov pointed out, we’ve been able to do it to our Yellow Pages deliveries for a while now. If you want to cancel your Yellow Pages (and White Pages) deliveries, here’s how: More »
I can’t remember the last time I used the White Pages. Or the Yellow Pages, for that matter. But if you’ve got a need to look up somebody’s phone number and want to do it from your iPhone, Sensis has launched its White Pages iPhone app. It’s free.
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If it wasn’t for the fact that I need a home phone line for ADSL (I can’t get Naked at my exchange), I would have dumped my home landline years ago. The T-Hub, which was shown off at the Telstra Investor Day yesterday and also popped up on their intranet, doesn’t really make me want to hang on to the legacy landline option… More »
One day every year I come home from work to find a bulky package wrapped in plastic sitting on my doorstep. I pick it up, carry it over to my recycling bin and drop it in – plastic and all – because it’s an heirloom of a previous age. I’m talking about the Yellow Pages of course, and despite the fact that they still dump the unwanted books on my doorstep every year, the Sensis service has also jumped on the iPhone bandwagon with a new app. More »
Google’s announcement of their partnership with Sensis’ Yellow business listings reminds me of Dawn and Tim in the original UK version of The Office. Google Maps is like Tim – sometimes funny, sometimes entertaining, while the Yellow business listings are like Dawn – pretty in their own way, has an obvious attraction to Google Maps, but is stuck with some lout of a bloke (the rest of the Sensis stable) and so pretty much misses the opportunity to go off and get together with Tim… er, Google Maps.
Fortunately, yesterday was like the second Christmas Special, and the two announced that they were finally hooking up, with Yellow’s business listings to be available on Google Maps in Australia from 2009. More »
eBay aren’t the most popular online auction site in Australia at the moment. They’ve been publicly flogged by every man and his Reserve Bank for their plans to restrict payments to PayPal only in the near future, not to mention disgruntled sellers unhappy with new feedback options.
So it’s probably a very smart time for Sensis to take the Trading Post into the world of online auctions.
Today the Telstra subsidiary announced that they’d be launching auctions on the Trading Post website. And they’ve clearly structured their pricing model at disgruntled ebay sellers: it’s free to list your item, you get the first photo free with every auction, and you only pay when you make a sale. On top of that, sales under $10 will only cost you 50 cents, while the most you’ll pay for an auction is $24.95 on any item over $500.
Not only that, but they support a wide range of payment options including Paymate, bank transfers and credit cards.
In spite of the fact that we don’t even know when the iPhone will hit our shores, Telstra’s Sensis has already started development of iPhone applications. It has been advertising for iPhone developers across several sites.
This has naturally led to speculation that Telstra will be Apple’s partner for the Australian launch of the iPhone, but Sensis is still saying it doesn’t know who the iPhone carrier will be, and that it will want to work with the iPhone irrespective of who has it. [SMH]
