 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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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
Australian accounting and small business software tools provider MYOB has acquired one of Australia's larger web hosting providers in what at first glance appears to be one of the more unusual acquisitions of the year. Or is it?
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
Late last year Uruguay landed its first shipment of 100,000 units of the much lauded, sometimes criticised XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation. Buoyed by that success, Walter Bender, president software and content at OLPC effused over the next countries in line for the little green machine. The question is, however, can the likes of Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia, Haiti, Rwanda, Mongolia and a myriad of other impoverished countries stump up with the cash needed to join the OLPC bandwagon? The sums are not that difficult to do.
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
I might as well come right out and say it; Windows Vista works well for me. No doubt some readers will flame me and accuse me of being a Microsoft shill but this is a conclusion I've reached independently after some months of using Vista under real working conditions.
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
When iPod global marketing director Greg Joswiak was asked at Macworld 2007 why Apple had chosen to restrict iPhone to AT&T in the US, he replied that Apple could not have delivered functions such as visual voicemail without AT&T. That was no doubt true when iPhone was still under development but how can Apple afford to stick to exclusive carrier deals as it takes iPhone global?
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
For years Apple users - more specifically Mac users - have been telling the rest of the poor shlubs who buy other types of computers that they simply don't get it. Well after watching Steve Jobs at Macworld 2008 desperately trying to match the wonders of the year before with a wafer thin underpowered overpriced notebook, here's something I really don't get. Why doesn't Apple get into games?
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
From all accounts, the Midem music industry event in the ultra-chic seaside French resort of Cannes last weekend must have been a love-fest of balding heads wearing earphones bopping along to music from the 60s and 70s and reliving past glories when teenagers used to line up outside record stores waiting to get their copy of the latest Beatles single. Those days are long gone but you wouldn't have known judging by the denialist rhetoric that sprang forth from the mouths of two of the leading recording industry executives.
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
Armed with DRM-free MP3 downloads from all four major music labels, Amazon MP3 the digital music store of Amazon.com has announced that it will take its store international this year. Currently, Amazon MP3, which was launched on Amazon.com in September 2007, is only available to US residents and the announcement to go international puts further pressure on Apple's dominant iTunes store.
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
While new mobile phones entrant Apple struggles to to achieve its goal of moving 10 million iPhone handsets by the end of 2008, the 2007 results of mobile phone leader Nokia has put into perspective the market that Apple is now playing in. Nokia, which commands a 38% share of the global cellphones space, sold a staggering 437 million handsets in 2007 with revenues of more than $75 billion.
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
It's no longer news that Apple had yet another spectacular quarter - the company's best quarter ever! So why are AAPL shares more than $20 lower than they were last week, $40 lower than two weeks ago and $60 lower than a month ago? The answer is probably more obvious than many may think.
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
Most of us are familiar with how mobile phone plans work. You get a subsidised handset and sign a contract to pay a monthly fee for a certain number of minutes of talk time and other services. Now apply that model to electric cars, except that instead of a handset you get a subsidised car and instead of minutes you buy kilometres of driving distance. This bold venture is taking place in Israel right now and it has big backers including two global auto makers, a software entrepreneur, an Israeli billionaire and the Israeli Government.
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
The Blu-ray camp has won the high definition video format war and can start popping the champagne corks. It was a brave fight but based on the latest US sales figures of standalone HD video players, it's time for Toshiba and the rest of the HD DVD camp to throw in the towel and concede defeat.
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