 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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Monday, 02 March 2009 |
Four years ago I wrote an article about the fast approaching
demise of the print news business. That day is just about upon us and
judging by the actions of Hearst, one the largest newspaper publishers
in the world, many old world media players are still flailing around
punching air trying to figure out how to stay in business.
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Sunday, 01 March 2009 |
Microsoft got things seriously wrong when it released Vista and the company knows it. In the past, the absolute market dominance of Windows on the desktop has allowed Redmond to get away with such mistakes. That may no longer be the case now that Google has entered the operating system market with its Linux-based Android platform.
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Sunday, 01 March 2009 |
The
Internet Industry Association, the peak body representing the major
Internet players in Australia, including the ISPs, has once again
refused to take a stand against the Australian Government's attack on
Internet freedom. A question must now be raised over whose interests
the IIA truly represents.
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Saturday, 28 February 2009 |
Microsoft has announced at least three dozen largely cosmetic changes to the beta version of Windows 7 as the software giant gets ready to distribute the first release candidate of its new operating system. Feedback in the blogosphere about the flagged changes has been mainly positive, although there have also been a few brickbats.
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
Listening to Intel CEO boss Craig Barrett and Ericsson's chief technology officer Hakan Eriksson last week, one could be forgiven for thinking we were witnessing a rerun of the HD DVD versus Blu-ray war in the mobile broadband space. However, neither believes that will be the case - albeit for different reasons.
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
With the new year less than two weeks old, the question on the lips of many tech industry watchers is whether the Satyam fraud scandal means the party is over for offshore outsourcing. While Satyam is just one company, the extent and audacity of the financial fraud is such that gazes are turning toward other low cost outsourcers operating in poorly regulated markets.
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
A couple of months ago Steve Jobs described netbooks as $500 pieces of junk, presumably not worthy of Apple. However, Jobs also kept his options open and promised some interesting ideas if the netbook market ever did take-off - and take-off it has. Will we see those interesting ideas come to fruition in the form of a netMac at Macworld 2009?
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Sunday, 14 December 2008 |
For a brief moment in time, between October 2007 and April 2008, thanks to the Asus Eee PC it really did seem as if desktop Linux was finally going to have its moment in the sun. Unfortunately for the Linux crowd, however, Asus, Acer and other hardware makers realised they could sell many more netbooks if they did deals with those nasty folks in Redmond.
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
Some
worrying signs concerning our basic freedoms have begun to emerge
throughout the free world, with the UK and Australia at the forefront
of a disturbing trend to censor the Internet. Two recent events
indicate an erosion of our rights as citizens within a free society.
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Sunday, 07 December 2008 |
If one was to believe IBM, the days of the Microsoft desktop are numbered, soon to be cut short by a combination of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, IBM's Lotus range of office applications and a virtual desktop from Virtual Bridges. The trouble is IBM's solution is nothing new and addresses none of the issues associated with moving away from Microsoft.
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Thursday, 27 November 2008 |
It really makes no difference whether a Howard Coalition or a Rudd Labor Government is in power, Telstra obviously considers itself answerable to no-one. What other conclusion can be drawn from the monolithic telco's action of answering the Government's RFP to build the National Broadband Network with a non-compliant 12-page document?
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