Vodafone extends mobile broadband service Total 3G investment heads up to $500 million Southern Cross boosts US capacity times four Says technology can be extended to undersea cables AT&T to sell new iPhones minus contracts Not all customers will qualify for subsidised prices Lawyer warns telcos over regulatory landmines New dispute procedures, Fair Trading Act issues and a newly invigorated Commerce Commission all drew solicitor’s attention Gen-i faces fight for $120m-a-year CBA deal Aussie bank CBA goes to market for telecommunicsations services Apple nears Chinese iPhone deal, say reports Negotiations moved forward after Apple gave up on its demand for a share of subscriber revenues, say reports 500 GPs back HealthLink, claims CEO Email campaign mounted to challenge interconnect plan for health networks Comcom regulates South Island backhaul Move aimed to stimulate voice and data competition Apple squeezes iPhone 3G costs down to US$173 The iPhone 3G may be an unusually-profitable product for Apple, say analysts Police and public to share Newmarket wi-fi Video surveillance traffic can be separated from public or corporate wi-fi traffic, says network provider Cunliffe attacks after adverse broadband report Minister attempts to turn fire onto Opposition policy Nokia buys rest of Symbian, will make code open source Symbian is being challenged by a number of new contenders, including the LiMo Foundation and Google's Android platform, says analyst Telecom deepens relationship with Indian outsourcer Tech Mahindra signed for $30 million retail transformation HealthLink rebels against HISAC interconnect plan Private provider hold out on interconnect, citing security issues Forum: the strange world of backward competition TelstraClear price hike a knock for broadband customers IPFX wins Mazda Aussies fourth largest vehicle distributor opts for Kiwi UC Opinion: Our future is tied to infrastructure autonomy New Zealand organisations remain highly susceptible to internet latency issues Software developers suffer from poor network services No big bandwidth applications coming out of New Zealand, says developer From the CEO: Substituting fibre-optic networks for oil From OpenCircuit: Every US cent that goes onto the price of crude, the stronger the business case for fibre to the premises becomes The Downstream Diary — a month of it From OpenCircuit: A digest of news and happenings from TUANZ' Downstream blog

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Save the chocolate
This article, on a project to sequence the cocoa genome, attracted my immediate attention. Anything that protects the supply of chocolate has my full support. And, speaking of genomes, this article about how ours change during our lifetimes reminded me...
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