Aussie ISPs have content ambitions
Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.
Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.
Call centres are more popular than ever, but the proportion of customers that abandon their call before it is answered is increasing at an alarming rate, which can be attributed to cost cutting exercises, according to a new study.The Merchants Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report 2005, which is funded by IT services company Dimension Data, was published on Tuesday and found that 13.
Mobile phone users have been complaining that text messages sent by friends and family based in Europe on New Years' eve have taken up to 5 days to make the 17,000 kilometre journey.The use of text messages, which are up to 160 characters long and usually arrive within seconds, has exploded over the past few years.
E-mail services branches out as internet messaging services change.
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DirtyHippo, a European cell phone software company, is trying its hand in the mercurial U.S. cell phone data market.
Tevye, the much loved protagonist of Fiddler on the Roof, was full of wisdom. "A bird may love a fish," he memorably said, "but where would they build a home together?"