Ian Yates

Recent articles by Ian Yates

Opinion: Pie in the sky

Opinion: Pie in the sky

The cloud computing push coming from all the major vendors and service providers is hardly surprising.
Ian Yates Jul 31 2008, 12:10PM Software
Opinion: The old switcheroo

Opinion: The old switcheroo

Interesting to see Microsoft’s big boss Ballmer declare he’s ready to take the market share fight to Apple. Huh?
Ian Yates Jul 30 2008, 2:53PM Hardware
Opinion: Googling gobbledygook

Opinion: Googling gobbledygook

The Internet now contains a million million websites according to Google. And by my reckoning close to 900 million million of them are totally pointless and a complete waste of space.
Ian Yates Jul 29 2008, 4:57PM Collaboration
Opinion: Virtually free

Opinion: Virtually free

When Microsoft arrives late to the party it always likes to bring gifts.
Ian Yates Jul 25 2008, 2:29PM Software
Opinion: Secret security stuff

Opinion: Secret security stuff

When a researcher finds a security hole in the network, should they stick their finger in it straight away or wait for the rest of the world to notice?
Ian Yates Jul 25 2008, 9:34AM Security
Opinion: Sunny Patches

Opinion: Sunny Patches

The electricity bill lobbed into the letterbox the other day and of course, after the coughing fit subsided, the idea of installing some solar power floated into the nearest thought bubble.
Ian Yates Jul 24 2008, 8:08AM Training & Development
Opinion: Microsoft-Lite

Opinion: Microsoft-Lite

What on earth has happened to Apple? The company is growing its market share according to the latest figures but it seems it can’t handle the extra numbers.
Ian Yates Jul 22 2008, 2:15PM Hardware
Opinion: Scaremongering

Opinion: Scaremongering

Advertisers learned long ago that the best way to sell anything is to engage the audience emotionally and the strongest emotion of all is fear. And politicians aren't exactly newcomers at using fear to convince voters to lean their way. Which makes you wonder, are the peddlers of fear in the IT industry really worried about the level of threats to security that exist or are they more interested in scaring us witless so we'll swallow their pitch?
Ian Yates Jul 18 2008, 11:26AM Security
Opinion: Sent by my ego

Opinion: Sent by my ego

Why is it necessary for users of these new email capable wonder phones like the Crackberry and the JesusPhone to include a footnote with every message telling you “Sent from my ”?
Ian Yates Jul 16 2008, 1:36PM Mobility
Opinion: Not enough fibre

Opinion: Not enough fibre

According to experts the world will soon run out of Internet bandwidth unless we install oodles more fibre optic cable. This shortage was discovered by a company which makes…..fibre optic cables.
Ian Yates Jul 15 2008, 1:45PM Collaboration
Opinion: Call me

Opinion: Call me

The iPhone went on sale today, so we got up early to see what all the fuss was about and to find out who these people are who queue outside a shop all night just to be the first to get a new gadget.
Ian Yates Jul 11 2008, 2:29PM Mobility
Opinion: Hard spin

Opinion: Hard spin

So, the boss at Fujitsu thinks solid-state drives are a bit of a joke eh?
Ian Yates Jul 10 2008, 11:52AM Data centre
Opinion: Separating Telstra IS the answer

Opinion: Separating Telstra IS the answer

Apologies in advance to the analyst community, but recent warnings that the sky will fall if Telstra is split into infrastructure and service divisions are errant nonsense.
Ian Yates Jul 9 2008, 11:00PM Collaboration
Opinion: Year of the penguin

Opinion: Year of the penguin

It’s taken the confluence of several disparate but connected events to create the perfect breeding ground for desktop versions of Linux to finally flourish.
Ian Yates Jul 9 2008, 10:20AM Software
Opinion: Heavy cloud predicted

Opinion: Heavy cloud predicted

It’s not always easy to agree with the predictions made by analysts. Often they leave you wondering if they’re from the same planet.
Ian Yates Jul 3 2008, 4:51PM Collaboration
Opinion: Turn off

Opinion: Turn off

You can’t afford to knock any attempt to help reduce our carbon footprint, and the latest suggestion is to switch off your PCs when they’re not being used.
Ian Yates Jul 2 2008, 5:52PM Training & Development
Opinion: Denial

Opinion: Denial

Now there’s no escaping Apple’s iPhone. We’d previously worked up a quick-fire response to anyone calling us out for being uncool and using another brand of phone – the iPhone thing doesn’t work on NextG.
Ian Yates Jul 1 2008, 4:21PM Collaboration
Opinion: That’s T[life]

Opinion: That’s T[life]

It seems that every vendor has to have its own store these days.
Ian Yates Jun 27 2008, 12:12PM Collaboration
Opinion: Steam-powered computing

Opinion: Steam-powered computing

It's official. Windows XP is being put out to pasture. Sure you can still buy it for a while longer, but you'll have to hunt for it.
Ian Yates Jun 26 2008, 10:18AM Software
Opinion: Toxic schlock syndrome

Opinion: Toxic schlock syndrome

In the news today is a report on the number of PCs infesting the planet. It's around 1,000,000,000.
Ian Yates Jun 24 2008, 4:51PM Hardware

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