 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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Saturday, 07 March 2009 |
These days $900 is not
exactly a fortune but it does come in handy if you want to buy cheap
technology or enough food to keep your family's bellies full. Here in
Australia, many families are about to receive another Government
handout of AUD$900. What can they buy that will benefit them most?
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Saturday, 07 March 2009 |
News that
alternatives to the iPhone App Store are springing up all over will
come as welcome relief to thousands of developers who have had their
collective efforts to turn the iPhone into an open platform stymied by
a fanatical control freak of a company. The question is will Apple do the right thing by its users and shareholders and open up the iPhone platform?
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
Cloud computing is definitely not just hype. In fact it is tipped to be
a US$42 billion market within three years. With that sort of money in
the pot, you can bet your bottom billion dollars that players from all
over will be bidding for a piece of the pie.
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
One has to really wonder how the people who run a public transport
system got their jobs when they start threatening entrepreneurial
technology innovators who try to help their commuters. In the case of
Sydney's RailCorp, the NSW Government should seriously start looking at
getting some new management talent into the organisation.
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
Faster broadband adoption would usher in an age of renewed prosperity
if a new European study is to be believed. Furthermore, the economic
benefits would be felt the most in the recession strapped first world
countries where ICT skills are high.
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
The latest figures from Internet market watcher Net Applications show
that Microsoft's once totally dominant browser Internet Explorer
continues to have its market dominance eroded by Mozilla Firefox and
Apple Safari. In the past year IE has lost more than 7% share to its two rivals.
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
The
king of forced software bundling, Microsoft, is all of a sudden acting
like a reformed citizen, enabling users to remove Internet Explorer 8
from the latest build of Windows 7 Beta. The build includes a dialogue
box that easily enables users to enable and disable functions by
ticking and unticking check boxes.
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
The boss of one of Australia's largest ICT recruiters says the much
delayed National Broadband Network could provide hundreds of desperately
needed ICT jobs. ICT project managers are being let go by the hundreds
across Australia and recruiters are looking to the Telecoms sector to
keep the market afloat with projects like the NBN.
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
The word around the traps is that Amazon is about to announce a free
application for the iPhone that will enable the same e-books available
on Kindle to be read on the popular Apple device, as well as the iPod
Touch. What's more, we may have announcements of Kindle being available
on other platforms in the future.
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
Once again one of
Microsoft's worst kept secrets has been leaked, this time a new search
engine called Kumo, that is supposed to especially good at searching
for images. Is Kumo the saviour that Microsoft has been waiting for to
take on Google's 800 pound sumo or is it just a warmed up version of
Live Search?
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will be the greatest thing since sliced bread and is the answer to Australia's economic woes, if one is to believe the rhetoric from the Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy at the world's biggest technology trade fair this week. Speaking to a high level conference on broadband at CeBIT in Hannover Germany, Senator Conroy equated the NBN with economic stimulus.
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