Australia votes and Vulture South picks the flesh off tech policy
When Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull led the Australian Republican movement, which found itself on the wrong end of the 1999 plebiscite on converting Australia from a constitutional monarchy to a republic, he labelled then-Prime Minister and staunch monarchist John Howard the man who “broke this nation's heart.” …
Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business
Microsoft has announced it is buying Nokia's mobile devices and services business.
Revealed in a flurry of press releases in the small hours of Tuesday, the deal will see Microsoft “pay EUR 3.79 billion to purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, and EUR 1.65 billion to license Nokia’s patents, for a …
The Register's crowdfunding capers: the post-mortem
In June, The Register's Australian outpost tried to crowdfund $100,000 to fund a study into Australia's National Broadband Network.
The attempt didn't succeed, but 171 folks pledged contributions.
If you're on this page, you either stumbled upon it or were invited to visit it.
If the latter, we hope that on August 1st at 1: …
Why you backed Vulture South's crowdfunded capers
With four days to go in our campaign to crowd-fund an independent study into Australia's national broadband network, the Vulture South team is taking heart from the Australian Cricket team's backs-to-the-wall fight in the first Ashes test.
Sure our top order may have wilted, but perhaps our last man in can make a brave stand …
Reg to Australia: Here's your chance to find NBN answers
The Register is tired of Australia's broadband debate. As we explained yesterday, we're sick of the tribalism, parochialism and politicking.
We think Australia should be tired too, and want to do something about it.
Our something is an attempt to crowdfund an independent study into three big NBN questions that have gone …
It's time to suck the marrow from the NBN debate
Australia has, for the past decade, enjoyed a vivid but not-always productive debate on appropriate broadband infrastructure for the nation. The Reg wants to set that to rights.
Australia's broadband debate has reached the conclusion that the nation should spend at least $AUD29bn on a National Broadband Network (NBN) and allow …
Patent shark‘s copyright claim could bite all Unix
A company registered in minor league tax haven the Cook Islands, but with a subsidiary in Delaware, lawyers in the patent-troll heaven of East Texas and an office in Sydney, Australia, has asserted intellectual property rights over all versions of Unix and “Unix-like derivatives” and plans to seek royalties from every company …
