Ian Yates

Recent articles by Ian Yates

Opinion: RIP bushband WiMax

Opinion: RIP bushband WiMax

That’s one way to save $1bn – nuke a huge contract bequeathed to you by the previous government. Today Senator Conroy has killed off the OPEL broadband deal which was supposed to bring wireless broadband to lots of places where you can’t get broadband.
Ian Yates Apr 8 2008, 9:29AM Collaboration
Opinion: Brain drain

Opinion: Brain drain

So, we’re finally getting our own version of NASDAQ. About time too. Endless droning by politicians of all persuasions hasn’t done much to turn us into the ‘clever country’; now perhaps the entrepreneurs with their suitcases of cash can help transform us from a quarry to a quantum force to be reckoned with.
Ian Yates Apr 1 2008, 4:44PM Finance
Opinion: Virtually guaranteed

Opinion: Virtually guaranteed

Everybody is bleating about virtualisation. And I mean everybody. It’s like they all watched the Matrix and thought it was a documentary. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve been plugging the Citrix version of virtual known as thin client for donkey’s yonks, but that way of working never took off universally. Then along came VMWare and the rest is virtually history.
Ian Yates Mar 28 2008, 9:02AM Collaboration
Opinion: Get off of my cloud

Opinion: Get off of my cloud

Google’s guru Eric Schmidt flew into town this week and spruiked the new wunderkind of technology – cloud computing.
Ian Yates Mar 20 2008, 12:21PM Software
Opinion: Hacked or nuked – your choice

Opinion: Hacked or nuked – your choice

According to a report, which appeared in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, NATO now believes “cyber warfare poses as great a threat as a missile attack”. Puh-leese! Can somebody get these dudes a sense of perspective?
Ian Yates Mar 13 2008, 12:30PM Security
Opinion: Ask not for whom the Dell tolls

Opinion: Ask not for whom the Dell tolls

Resellers generally don’t like Dell because they don’t use resellers. Makes sense.
Ian Yates Mar 12 2008, 5:33PM Hardware
Opinion: Hackers release new probe into their own idiotic names

Opinion: Hackers release new probe into their own idiotic names

A spokesperson for infamous whacker-hacker-smacker-cracker group "Occult of the Cow Tippers", going by the pseudonym Ofal-Ofal Regurgitate, announced today that their new freebie code was "just awesome, dudes!"
Ian Yates Feb 29 2008, 1:17PM Security
Opinion: Bushband buggered again

Opinion: Bushband buggered again

As Cindy Lauper once asked "What's going on?" But she probably wasn't talking about satellite broadband access for rural and regional Australia. Then again, maybe the pop diva was very forward thinking and we all missed the point.
Ian Yates Feb 28 2008, 6:35PM Collaboration
Offset this: a look at HP's carbon offset program

Offset this: a look at HP's carbon offset program

Although it’s welcome news that HP is making carbon offsets available to its customers when they buy one of its laser printers, you really have to ask why this seems to be a “sweetener” to get punters to open their wallets.
Ian Yates Feb 26 2008, 3:54PM Hardware
HD DVD/Blue Ray: Low definition [opinion]

HD DVD/Blue Ray: Low definition [opinion]

And so we have to endure yet another media format war. And, just in case nobody noticed, once again it’s Sony offering “superior technology” and fighting off the “inferior” pretenders.
Ian Yates Feb 15 2008, 5:18PM Training & Development
Internet access: Hinder me no longer [opinion]

Internet access: Hinder me no longer [opinion]

Research outfit Ovumhas discovered that most SMEs in the UK think the Internet has caused them grief instead of delivering nirvana. There’s no reason to doubt that a similar response would be generated by the same questions being asked most anyplace which has Internet access.
Ian Yates Feb 15 2008, 6:45AM Collaboration

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