Archive for 'Aussie'

Playing Fetch

Playing Fetch

FetchTV Last year, I talked about Foxtel; the main pay TV provider here in Australia stepping in to IPTV with their Foxtel on Xbox 360 service. From my other post, you can see this didn’t go so well for them. Well, there’s another player in the industry now and they try very hard to be […]

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The FoxBox… or not

The FoxBox… or not

Foxtel, the main Pay TV provider here in Australia, recently partnered with Microsoft to bring their TV platform to the Xbox 360. This service works over IPTV instead of using the traditional satellite or cable systems that Foxtel would normally use. To me, this is a big advantage due to not being in a cable […]

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The DSL Debacle of 2010

The DSL Debacle of 2010

I have recently moved house. Still within the same city, just to a different suburb. Of course, when you move house, you need to get services relocated with you. Most of these were easy to do. The internet, however, was not. I called up iiNet (my ISP) on the 3rd of February, told them that […]

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Australian Price Gouging

Australian Price Gouging

One thing that has really been annoying me lately is companies that think it’s OK to artificially inflate prices of products here in Australia. There are a lot of companies doing this and it really needs to stop. With the Internet, more and more people are looking overseas for cheaper prices. More often than not, […]

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