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Practical Futurist Andrew Grill looks back to August 2000 when he was first introduced as a futurist.

One frustrated NBN user, Matt Dooley decided to stage a “sit-in” at is local Telstra store, frustrated that for the last 4 months Telstra had ignored the problems he had experienced with his [...]

Does your organisation use social media in the hope a CEO may read your tweet and want them to buy your product? You don’t always have to aim so high, writes Andrew Grill. Often we need only [...]

Back in 2000, we connected to the internet on mobile using the equivalent of fax speed technology and tiny screens. Andrew Grill takes us back to a time when this was promoted as the "future of mobile"

Back in 2009, after a trip to Sydney (at the time my first in 3 years after having moved to London), I wrote a post looking at the Australian mobile market. Some 4 years on from that post, I was [...]

Australian operator Telstra has again developed a New Year’s Eve app that lets Australians pre-send NYE SMS messages. The messages will then be delivered at midnight, letting you [...]

Two of my favourite ads of all time - "Rabbits" from Telstra, and "Not Happy Jan" from Yellow Pages. They don't make ads like this anymore.

“The launch of 4G in the UK will be evolutionary not revolutionary” First up some credentials so you can determine if I am qualified to make this statement. I have a Master of [...]

You don’t always have to go with the big guys when it comes to a webhosting company for your blog. A recent experience with moving this blog to a new webhost (and the reasons behind the [...]