News
Issue No. 1 - July/August 2001
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Contents
mNet to deliver wireless for North TerraceBiotech funding
Chinese RE Expo
Stanvac stability
Arnotts to stay
Redgum
Olive boom
Barossa bottling
Water in the Holy Land
Holden aims for 180,000
BRL California bid
Recession proof!
Petrol cap
Five stars more
Asleep on the job
Protection for creditors
High marks for wine
Tax by phone
OPSM consolidates
Two big dogs
Charming Grosvenor
KOJO's big production
BAE 'Wedgetail' 737
REI Welcomes State Government move
IT needs woman
Optus links with Hostworks
Barossa catchment plan
mNet to deliver wireless for North Terrace
We’ve all been surprised by the astonishing uptake of the internet. Host computers are added at a rate of nearly 460 every hour, while the number of internet users grows by more than 2100 each hour [reference www.netsizer.com]. Newspaper, television, even bus shelters ads are often now adorned with a URL or web address of the company, product or service.
We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg.
Today mobile phones far outnumber computers on the internet, both in number and in growth. In fact there’s about 700 million mobile phones in use today. That’s a mobile phone for every nine people on the planet!
Today’s Internet is a mainly tethered network, with users ‘plugged in’ either by dial-up lin...



