 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, 02 April 2009 |
While
people have been scratching their heads over the cost of the NSW
Government schools laptops program, over the next three years Lenovo,
Microsoft and Adobe will rake in $600 million. And the big losers out
of this first world version of a one laptop per student program will be taxpayers and
the wider IT industry.
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Monday, 30 March 2009 |
What
do the Russian mob, human error and Moore's Law have in common? They
were all invoked in the space of 30 minutes to support Communications
Minister Senator Stephen Conroy's drive to impose a mandatory Internet
filter at the ISP level on the Australian public.
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009 |
Enterprise
management software vendor CA has axed 31 staff at its Melbourne
security R&D Lab in what it is calling a restructuring move.
Melbourne is one of CA's largest centres for international R&D
outside of the US and the move amounts to a downsizing of about 20%.
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 |
A low priced mobile handset capable of running multiple operating
systems in virtual windows and with similar features of much higher
priced smart phones is about to hit the market. The handset will run
Linux and at least one other OS on top of the OKL4 hypervisor from Open
Kernel Labs.
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
Ten years ago a young Australian Internet pioneer showed the world how it could surf the web for free. Now Sydney Low, co-founder of one-time free ISP FreeOnline and its affiliated Internet technology company Sharinga Networks, is back in the game. However, this time he's playing in the mobile phone space with a new company called RedTxt.
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Friday, 20 March 2009 |
Anti-censorship site Wikileaks has threatened Australian Communications
Minister Senator Stephen Conroy with criminal prosecution if he
attempts to discover the source of its leaked Australian Internet
blacklist. Wikileaks says that under Swedish law it is a criminal
offence to try to breach confidentiality agreements between the press
and sources.
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Friday, 20 March 2009 |
I don't know about you but I'm old enough to remember a time when
classic works of fiction such as D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
were banned from publication. After the permissive era of the late
1960s and 1970s, I never thought I would see those days return. I was
wrong.
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 |
A new web-based telephony application is being touted by its developer
as a soon to be released VoIP application on the iPhone App Store. The application has already been submitted and is awaiting approval according to the developer.
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 |
Computer hardware giant IBM is seeking to clear out from its rival
server makers by acquiring the fast declining Sun Microsystems for
about double its present market value. Sun is currently the number four
server player, while IBM holds a narrow lead at the top over rival
hardware monolith HP.
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 |
Discovery
Communications, the owner of the popular Discovery Channel, has filed a
patent infringement suit against web titan Amazon.com alleging
infringement of a patent for electronic book technology. The suit names
the Kindle and Kindle 2 e-book readers and Amazon's e-book delivery
system and seeks damages and royalty payments for continued use of the
technology.
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009 |
Claiming
that the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper had misled Australians in a
report on Monday that claimed millions of plasma and LCD televisions
would become obsolete from 1 May, 2009 due to changes in the way
broadcasters transmit, a seething free-to-air TV broadcasters' body
Freeview has issued a statement to sooth the frayed nerves of consumers.
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