opinion

Opinion: Power to the regions

Opinion: Power to the regions

When the feds finally build the much-anticipated NBN, why don’t they also do something to alleviate the chronic overcrowding and lack of infrastructure in our capital cities at the same time?
Ian Yates Nov 18 2008, 12:35PM Collaboration
Opinion: Death of a junket

Opinion: Death of a junket

When networking behemoth Cisco does anything at all it usualy makes news headlines.
Ian Yates Nov 14 2008, 10:36AM Collaboration
Opinion: Working for the man

Opinion: Working for the man

Watching the antics of IBM trying to stop one of its execs joining Apple leaves us wondering if we're being told the whole story.
Ian Yates Nov 12 2008, 3:09PM Finance
Opinion: It’s the security, stupid

Opinion: It’s the security, stupid

Microsoft has been accused of many things over the many years of its existence but rarely has it been accused of marketing malfeasance.
Ian Yates Nov 3 2008, 2:33PM Software
Opinion: Patchwork pain

Opinion: Patchwork pain

Is it just me or has the rate of updates spewing forth from Microsoft increased lately?
Ian Yates Oct 31 2008, 3:55PM Software
Opinion: NBN gets niggly

Opinion: NBN gets niggly

While the federal government ponders how to pay for the promised national broadband network (NBN), the two main contenders to build the network, Telstra and the Terria consortium seem content to spend their time slinging mud at each other.
Ian Yates Oct 28 2008, 3:59PM Collaboration
Opinion: Famous Five

Opinion: Famous Five

How many telcos does it take to install a fibre optic cable?
Ian Yates Oct 27 2008, 4:41PM Collaboration
Opinion: Once were hackers

Opinion: Once were hackers

One of the first ‘network appliances’ we bumped into about ten years ago, was a red-boxed firewall from Watchguard.
Ian Yates Oct 24 2008, 11:13AM Security
Opinion: Information highway to hell

Opinion: Information highway to hell

Telstra’s claims that we desperately need the National Broadband Network and that it should be made from fibre optic cables haven’t really been disputed by anyone really.
Ian Yates Oct 9 2008, 3:55PM Collaboration
Opinion: Boom crash opera

Opinion: Boom crash opera

Here in the tech sector most of us seem to be ignoring the financial meltdown on Wall Street and all the other streets around the world which are home to a stock exchange.
Ian Yates Oct 2 2008, 8:34AM Finance
OPINION: Size matters

OPINION: Size matters

News just in that iPhone users are sucking heavily on their data download allowance confirms what many of us have been saying for yonks – you need a decent-sized screen if you’re going to do much web browsing.
Ian Yates Sep 25 2008, 4:38PM Mobility
Opinion: Truth or dare

Opinion: Truth or dare

You can’t knock the ACCC for trying to keep website operators honest, but really, their chance of succeeding has to be slimmer than a snowflake’s in hell.
Ian Yates Sep 24 2008, 4:10PM Finance
Opinion: LEOS loom large – again

Opinion: LEOS loom large – again

It doesn’t seem all that long ago that stories appeared about “low earth orbit satellites” known by their acronym LEOS, taking over the telecommunications world.
Ian Yates Sep 12 2008, 9:22AM Collaboration
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: 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

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