Recent articles by Ian Yates

Opinion: Navel gazing

Opinion: Navel gazing

Ten years from now your average IT worker will be an English-speaking Chinese girl according to Microsoft’s in-house fortune-teller Miha Kralj.
Ian Yates Sep 8 2008, 7:26AM Software
Opinion: Smile, you're on RFID

Opinion: Smile, you're on RFID

Here at Microsoft's TechEd conference most things are easy to find.
Ian Yates Sep 5 2008, 3:45PM Software
Opinion: Size matters

Opinion: Size matters

Small business just got bigger according to Microsoft.
Ian Yates Sep 4 2008, 3:55PM Software
Opinion: Microsoft's Monster Mesh

Opinion: Microsoft's Monster Mesh

It's always raining in Seattle which must be why Microsoft has quickly noticed all the noise about cloud computing.
Ian Yates Sep 3 2008, 10:31AM Software
Opinion: New tricks

Opinion: New tricks

Australia sometimes seems to be the land of knockers rather than Ockers.
Ian Yates Sep 2 2008, 2:07PM Hardware
Opinion: Sheer luxury

Opinion: Sheer luxury

Whenever you see “high margins” and “reseller” used in the same sentence, you just know it’s another example of an oxymoron.
Ian Yates Sep 1 2008, 11:51AM Hardware
Opinion: Genuine advantage

Opinion: Genuine advantage

You can't really complain when a software developer insists on being paid for their work, even when that developer is Microsoft.
Ian Yates Aug 29 2008, 10:00AM Software
Opinion: Stupid salaries

Opinion: Stupid salaries

So, Larry Ellison collected a tad under $85m for bossing around
everyone at Oracle last year. No doubt the shareholders think he's
worth it, since Oracle is making lots of money.
Ian Yates Aug 27 2008, 3:45PM Strategy
Opinion: No more spin

Opinion: No more spin

Fortune tellers, and analysts, have been predicting the demise of hard
disks for almost as long as the crash-prone spinning platters have been available.
Ian Yates Aug 26 2008, 2:15PM Hardware
Opinion: What will they think of next?

Opinion: What will they think of next?

What indeed. Intel wants us to believe it can send electricity around the office without wires.
Ian Yates Aug 25 2008, 2:57PM Collaboration
Opinion: How much is that penguin in the Window?

Opinion: How much is that penguin in the Window?

So the Redmond Rottweiler has promised not to bite any Salt Lake City penguins for another year or so.
Ian Yates Aug 22 2008, 11:28AM Software
Opinion: Not invented here

Opinion: Not invented here

News out today that banks and other financial houses aren’t too keen on local innovations in technology should come as no surprise.
Ian Yates Aug 20 2008, 9:40AM Software
Opinion: Brain drain

Opinion: Brain drain

Just when you thought it was all about sport and anyone with a brain would be forced overseas, along comes John Parker, the new CTO of NICTA, with a message of hope.
Ian Yates Aug 18 2008, 9:52AM Strategy
Opinion: Low rent

Opinion: Low rent

Is Apple’s move into movies the end of the line for the pay TV industry in Australia?
Ian Yates Aug 15 2008, 9:25AM Finance
Opinion: Let the games begin

Opinion: Let the games begin

Yeah, we know, the games have already started, but what’s got us interested is all the palaver about whether it’s kosher to use computer graphics as part of the entertainment.
Ian Yates Aug 14 2008, 9:16AM Software
Opinion: Who’s your nanny then?

Opinion: Who’s your nanny then?

So, Steve Jobs has admitted that Apple has built code into the iPhone to allow the company to knobble ‘bad’ applications.
Ian Yates Aug 13 2008, 9:11AM Mobility
Opinion: Open and shut case

Opinion: Open and shut case

Resellers are being advised to give up trying to get any kind of margin out of selling PCs. Instead we're being told to make motza margins on the must-have peripherals that go with a PC, particluarly if it's a laptop.
Ian Yates Aug 11 2008, 1:24PM Hardware
Opinion: Where the streets do have names

Opinion: Where the streets do have names

Just in case you dropped in today from the outer reaches of the galaxy, the news is that Google unleashed it’s Street View offering on the netizens of Australia the other day.
Ian Yates Aug 7 2008, 10:02AM Collaboration
Opinion: Get off my cloud

Opinion: Get off my cloud

Oh puhleese! Just shoot me now and get it over with. Dell is trying to make ‘cloud computing’ into its very own trademark.
Ian Yates Aug 6 2008, 9:34AM Software
Opinion: Oink flap

Opinion: Oink flap

That’s the sound you’d hear if pigs could fly. And after reading the news this morning that Telstra has upped the speed and increased the download limit for data users of its Next G service, “pigs might fly” was indeed my initial reaction.
Ian Yates Aug 4 2008, 3:46PM Mobility

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