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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: 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
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: Lounging around

Opinion: Lounging around

The latest announcement from Intel started me thinking what would be really handy in a compact Internet gadget.
Jul 28 2008, 4:49PM Hardware
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: 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: How to survive the Government ICT review

Opinion: How to survive the Government ICT review

The Whole of Government [WoG] ICT review to be conducted by Sir Peter Gershon has the potential to significantly cut costs and increase efficiency. But an Ovum analyst warns it could create both short and long-term disruption to Government agencies and suppliers.
Dylan Bushell-Embling Jul 10 2008, 4:21PM Strategy
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: Best practices for deploying Cisco TelePresence

Opinion: Best practices for deploying Cisco TelePresence

Many companies are looking at videoconferencing and its associated technologies to help them to improve collaboration and communications among staff, and cut travel expenses and associated greenhouse gas emissions.
Anthony Stevens, CIO of Dimension Data Jul 2 2008, 3:55PM Collaboration

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