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iBurst To Cease By End Of Year
1In our recent roundup of wireless broadband services, we left out iBurst because it wasn’t 3G, but even if we’ve spread our net wider, it might not have made much difference. Whirlpool reports that iBurst will shut down by the end of the year, following a failed attempt by BigAir to buy its assets. Since…
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Australia’s Most Complained-About ISPs
Dan Warne at APC runs down the most complained about Internet service providers, according to industry regulator the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. Telstra and Optus top the list (no surprise given they have the most customers), followed by AAPT, Virgin Mobile and Soul. As APC points out, Dodo’s high ranking is remarkable given its relatively small…
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NICTA Preps P2P Engine For Game Developers
Australian research institute NICTA is working on the development of Badumna, a peer-to-peer system specifically designed to make it easier to players in massively multiplayer environments to communicate. NICTA has released a beta version of the technology to games developers, who typically have to spend millions building reliable infrastructure for multiplayer communication. It might be…