It is nice to see Telstra performing well as a company. According to Australian IT, They have forced companies to visit Denver, Colorado to pitch for work. Also, their chief IT Consultant rarely visits Australia, spending most of his time in the USA. Sure, I know that teleworking is possible, but it is far better if the people are at least in the same timezones. Like Denver is something like 8 hours ahead (but on the next day), meaning he needs to start work early for any teleconferences and the like. Or more probably people need to stay late in Oz.

From Germany comes news of a P2P filesharing server that was taken over by police for two months, and all the germans who used the server now face investigation. According to the article, 130 people who were sharing 500 or more songs had their homes searched, and some computers siezed.

And an ISP in the USA is trying to buy a nationwide allocation of frequency in the 2 GHz range in order to set up a national wireless network. They plan to offer free access at 256/64 kbs subsidized by people wanting faster speeds. I do not think that this will work commercially since people will buy two units in order to double their speed rather than paying for access – and I also suspect that they are unlikely to get the allocation…

And finally, MSNBC has a review of Windows Vista and describes it as the worst operating system ever. Sure, it is a beta which is probably one of the reasons why it is so bad, but it should not be that bad. Like taking an hour to install on a machine with 2 GBytes of RAM, or four hours if installing over WindowsXP and then refusing to rebook… I am sure by the time it is released next year that it will be much better!