Why its Telstra of course…“The fourth annual Reader’s Digest Trust Survey has found that Australian’s rate Sol Trujillo, CEO of Telstra, amongst the least trustworthy people in the country.” T4 Story here

Despite industry experts condemning  Stephen Conroy’s (our new Telecommunications minister) plan to filter the internet in Australia the government is about to waste tens of millions of dollars on technology that will slow down the internet.  Go here for further info and to send a letter to the Minister.

Well I finally received the Shift and it is certainly living up to its reputation. By far the best UMPC and with HSDPA it makes this unit completely ultra mobile. For $1899 plus a NextG sim card you have a notebook replacement with an excellent keyboard and a 7 day battery life (on snapvue). Further Details here. I’m not sure why HTC have cut down the Win Mobile 6 platform on the second processor and called it SnapVue as it is completely useless except for very basic email tasks. Luckily there is a “Liberate your HTC Shift” hack which at least gives you Office Mobile and a few other must haves - here.

Smartphones are becoming very useful devices and far from the compromises of a few years ago. Windows Mobile 6 is a big step from 5 and functionality is more closely focused around phone first pda second… oh and dual processors help. I have had the HTC Touch Cruise for two months and highly recommend it for any business user or anyone who travels.

Check out the 2008 Whirlpool broadband survey:
74% of the 17000 who undertook the survey disagreed with the Governments policy for mandatory ISP-level content filtering. A large number of these people who disagree are IT professionals yet the government in all their wisdom feel that spending tens of millions on an all but useless content filtering system condemned by experts will protect its voters.
http://whirlpool.net.au/survey/2007/