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Gadgets
9:25AM Nick Broughall | 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 »
Telstra Unveils The T-Hub… Does Anybody Want One?
9:25AM Nick Broughall | 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 » 
Software
10:43AM Nick Broughall | 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 »
Yellow Pages Now On The App Store
10:43AM Nick Broughall | 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 » Advertisement
Getting To The Guts Of GPS- Part 3
We’ve spoken about the importance of mapping technology to GPS, as well as the safety features of the device, but what else should we know about our GPS? Does the mapping technology tell us more than simply the location, speed and shape of a road? Apparently, yes it does, and the answer lies in the use of POIs. More » Advertisement
Getting To The Guts Of GPS- Part 2
GPS manufacturers love to drive home this idea of safety when promoting their devices. But do GPS devices actually make a huge difference to our safety on the roads or are they a distraction? Fred Curtis, Commercial Manager at Sensis, has some interesting insights. For the GPS navigation mapping guru, it is the way GPS devices make the driving experience less stressful that is most important. More » Advertisement
Getting To The Guts of GPS
Navigation technology has really hit its stride over the last 12 months or so. In fact, these days it seems like every granny and their shopping trolley uses a GPS. But how much do we really know about these systems, which are becoming commonplace in our vehicles? I mean sure, we realise they help us get from point A to point B, but do we truly understand the guts of the gadget; the mapping technology? To shed some light on the topic, we headed straight to the source and spoke with Fred Curtis, GPS navigation mapping guru and Commercial Manager at Sensis; Australia’s leader in GPS mapping technology, whose mapping data, Whereis, takes pride of place in just about every major GPS brand, from TomTom to Garmin. Over the coming weeks, we’ll share Fred’s insights- as well as a few of our own-, to help make sense of this whole GPS map-tech business. Now, where to begin? More »
Online
9:44AM Nick Broughall | 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 »
Sensis And Google Join Forces To Create Mega-Google Maps
9:44AM Nick Broughall | 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 »
Online
11:46AM Nick Broughall | 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.
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Trading Post To Take On eBay
11:46AM Nick Broughall | 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.
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Phones
11:50AM Nathan Taylor | 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]
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Sensis Developing iPhone Apps, But Telstra Still Not Confirmed as Carrier
11:50AM Nathan Taylor | 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]
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