 BeerFiles is an in-your-face and sometimes irreverent blog concerning all things to do with IT, technology, people and the media from the point of view of a hard boiled technology journalist and commentator. Stan has been in the IT game for about a quarter of a century. In that time, he has seen and written about the rise and fall of more than a few IT players and made many friends, some of whom he has even crossed swords with on occasions. Everything in this blog is purely Stan’s opinion so if you agree, wish to expand upon, correct a post or tell Stan he’s a clueless know nothing, please feel free to do so.
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
The news that Microsoft has finally made Windows XP SP3 available for public download after many delays may not be the cause for joy that many XP SP2 users are hoping for. In fact, there are some ominous smoke signals on the horizon which may well sound a warning for intending users not to download it just yet.
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
A lot of media reports are circulating which extol the virtues of the latest hot product from High Tech Computer, the HTC Touch Diamond 3G smartphone, and like so many other products, comparing it to the Apple iPhone. Sorry HTC, but the addition of an accelerometer and a larger high resolution 640 x 480 screen still won't put the new Touch model within shouting distance of the iPhone.
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
I still begrudgingly use Vista, even after making the mistake of retrograding my system to the monumental stuff-up called SP1. I still use Word and Excel 2007, although there are free alternatives that tempt me. However, I dropped Outlook months ago because it's an unacceptable resources drain. Can a new plug-in called Xobni change my mind?
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
Apple is a great company as its latest set of quarterly financial results clearly show. However, the computer and gadgets maker has two major vulnerabilities, which is why its share price is still wavering and well off its highs of last year.
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
Thanks to a wonderful new open source tool called Wubi, downloading and installing the latest version of Ubuntu Linux is now a snap for Windows users. It’s a pity the Ubuntu development team still hasn’t taken the hint with its latest release, Hardy Heron.
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
In the past week, there has been an eerie silence about a certain issue from 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, Apple headquarters. A tiny upstart system builder from Miami called Psystar is boldly taking orders over the net for Mac clones - Intel PCs modified to run the latest version of Mac OS X. A can of worms has been opened and the question is what is Apple going to do?
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
The role of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is to regulate for free and open competition in the marketplace and to protect consumers. There is a viable competitor to PayPal that protects eBay consumers. That is just one reason why the ACCC cannot allow the intention of eBay Australia to accept payments only through its PayPal subsidiary.
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
In January this year, the news broke that an assistant Professor and his team at Stanford University had invented a revolutionary battery technology capable of holding ten times the energy of existing Lithium Ion batteries. Now the Professor's ongoing research is being funded to the tune of $10 million by a startup university in Saudi Arabia and conspiracy theories are flowing as thickly as oil.
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
When auction site eBay Australia announced last week that it would only accept online payments through its PayPal system from June 17 it set the global blogosphere alight - for all the wrong reasons. Global eBay users, both sellers and buyers, worried that Australia is just a test market for a worldwide rollout, are thus watching keenly as regulator the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) examines the eBay action.
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
The first unsanctioned Mac clone has hit the market and it won’t be the last. It is hard to imagine that the day Apple moved to Intel architecture that the company didn’t see this coming. The question is how will Apple stop the flood gates from opening?
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
My Apple Fool's day story titled 'Apple to release PC version of Leopard in Q3 ' was eventually recognised as a spoof by most readers. However, there was a discernible sentiment from many readers expressing a wish that it was in fact true. Now that Macs and PCs are based on the same hardware architecture, could Apple actually successfully put Leopard up against Vista?
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