Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Merry Christmas from ONE
Our customer support hours through the season are:
| December 25th & 26th: | Closed |
| December 25th & 26th: | Closed |
| December 27th & 28th: | Customer Support only |
| December 29th, 30th & 31st | Business as Usual |
| January 1st & 2nd: | Closed |
| January 3rd: | Business as Usual |
Rock Melt
There is an interesting new web browser out called RockMelt, developed by the creators of Netspace.
The new browser is geared towards modern day users and common web browser usage, for activities such as searching information on Google, and interacting with social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
Given the Netspace influence, it will be very interesting to see what sort of reaction the community has to this browser. Netspace was one of the first graphical web browsers used mostly in the 90s, before Microsoft started bundling Internet Explorer into Windows, and got themselves into a world of trouble with anti-trust suits.
Given a substantial capital investment of $10 million by Marc Andreessen’s company (the creator of Netscape Navigator), and the current dominance held by Microsoft (60%), and substantial competition from Mozilla (Firefox holds approx 20%) and Google (Chrome browser holds approx 9% market share), it would seem that Andreesen is confident his browser will have moderate success, and will provide a different experience to the rest.
Free download of Rock Melt is by Invitation only. See http://www.rockmelt.com/ for more.
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Conroy works to reduce AU NZ Roaming Rates
Despite his many criticisms, Senator Stephen Conroy seems to be doing some good for the telecommunications sector in Australia by teaming up the DBCDE with the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development to work towards reducing mobile voice roaming rates between Australian and New Zealand which are claimed to be absorbanent.
This positive move from the Labour Senator is welcome news to travellers, who are stung with huge phone bills that, according to Comms Day report this week, netted Telstra up to $390 million in roaming revenue for 2009 alone.
It is reported that network operators margins on roaming are increased by 400% compared to local calls, however operating expenses involved in delivering the service allegedly only cost the Telcos around 20% more than the cost of a local call.
We look forward to seeing any downward pressure on the price of roaming mobile calls, and hope the initiative between Australia and New Zealand sets an example for the rest of the Telco regulatory bodies around the globe to look at reducing their costs, to benefit the increasing number of global travellers.