 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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Sunday, 29 June 2008 |
Regardless of what opinion one might hold of Bill Gates, there can be no denying that concerning IT he is a man with vision. Thus, it comes as no surprise that at just 52 he has cut the cord with his baby, Microsoft. Gates has known for a long time Microsoft is a company on the wane.
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
It is hard to fathom the behaviour of eBay in Australia over the past couple of months because never in the history of the technology industry has a multinational company so flagrantly flagged its intention to flout this country's commercial laws. The question is how should Australia as a market respond?
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
Since May 21, all eBay Australia sellers have been forced to offer PayPal as an option for buyers. However, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently decided to deny eBay the right to enforce a PayPal only policy on its Australian site. Will the ACCC force eBay Australia to shut down its mandatory PayPal option for sellers?
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
eBay has issued a statement on its Australian website expressing its disappointment that Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has blocked its plan to enforce the use of PayPal on the eBay Australia site. However, with just about everyone outside eBay agreeing with the ACCC decision, eBay has incredibly decided to challenge the ruling. Does eBay know the meaning of the expression flogging a dead horse?
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
While the world watched in rapturous awe at the happenings that took
place a few days ago at the Apple WWDC, earlier this month Google held
its own developers conference for the first time. The Google I/O
conference, held in San Francisco, had one clear message - forget the
desktop, the "Cloud" is where it's at and the Web is the new platform
for application development. It's already a $1 billion market and
growing fast.
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
An alternative title for this article was polluting the world, one program at a time but that's not fair. There's plenty of good software being developed that isn't a wasteful source of greenhouse gases, it just generally doesn't sit on the desktop anymore.
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
Driving a V8 gas guzzler in these days of skyrocketing fuel prices and fossil fuel induced climate change is no longer considered cool. So why should it be cool to own a supercharged power hungry desktop or laptop computer? Is Moore's Law dead? Not according to Intel.
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
In what must surely be the most bone-headed decision in the history of the green energy movement, the Rudd Labor Government has decided to squash the nascent local solar panel industry. The same government that paid lip service to environmental concerns by signing the Kyoto Protocol has decided to make installation of home solar panels a class issue.
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
For the third time in the past year I have been the unhappy recipient of a catastrophic hardware failure. For the first time, I don't really care all that much because this time I'm living in the cloud and loving it!
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
In a scene reminiscent of a Star Wars Jedi Council meeting, Australia's dominant carrier Telstra has projected a life-size 3-D hologram of its chief technology officer to give a business presentation in real time hundreds of kilometres away. The presentation held in Adelaide saw a not perfect but passable 3-D colour image of Dr Hugh Bradlow on stage which was beamed from Melbourne, more than 700 km distant.
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
For those of you waiting to get your hands on Hewlett-Packard's new budget priced sub-notebook, the HP 2133 Mini-Note, it is one hell of a little computer. However, laden as it is with Vista, the tune it wants to play is a little off key.
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