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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
This is all very interesting. Google Gears now enables users to take Google Docs documents out of the cloud and save them locally for later offline use and we're promised Spreadsheets are next. That's great but hello Google what are your two most widely used cloud applications right now and why have they been ignored!
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
South Australia is the second smallest state in Australia, with just over 7% of the nation's population. Yet Michael Atkinson, the attorney general of this smallest mainland state, is dictating to the whole nation what video games adults are legally allowed to play. The question is whether Mr Atkinson is making Australia a laughing stock in the developed world by keeping us from implementing an R18+ rating for games or is he a lone voice of sanity in the wilderness?
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
I can remember the first story I wrote about possible links between cell phones and brain cancer back the late 1990s for the Australian Financial Review. In the course of the story, I interviewed a number of senior medical specialists at leading hospitals, many of whom believed that the cell phone brain cancer issue was a ticking time bomb, much like cigarettes with lung cancer had been decades earlier. The response from the industry to the story was swift and interesting.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
Apple is used to doing pretty much as it likes within the confines of its own rarefied kingdom and receiving nothing but accolades from its legion of subjects. The minute the company ventures out into the real world with an unwanted Safari download, Apple gets mauled and its adoring fans wonder why. From the looks of things Apple itself is still wondering why and that's a worry.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
Google's earnings have slowed; it's stock is down 40% from its jumbo $747 high in November 2007. This is arguably the first true test of the mettle of the world's newest technology super giant. Is Eric Schmidt's vision of a world blanketed by cloud computing dominated by Google a ray of sunshine on Google's horizon or is search the only thing the company is good for?
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
For the past month all I've been hearing are moans and groans about how bad Vista is, how badly managed the distribution of SP1 has been, and how bad SP1 itself is. Well, for all the nostalgia freaks who long for the days of Windows XP, Windows 2000, NT4 or even Win 3.11, please go down to a computer swap meet, buy yourself an old clunker box loaded with DOS 6 and give the rest of us with new hardware a break. Vista is a damned good operating system just as it is.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
Question: Asus makes an innovative cheap little Linux computer that takes the world by storm but decides to fix what isn't broken and make it more expensive, why? The power of Microsoft of course! And so yet another attempt by a Linux purveyor to carve a niche in mainstream consumer computing looks set to fall to Windows. Or will it?
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
Intel has announced its intention to enter the high capacity solid state storage market with a 160GB solid state drive (SSD) in the next three months. Is this the beginning of the end for the hard disk?
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
It held such promise, an honest to goodness plug and play Linux desktop box selling for just US$199 at Wal-Mart stores across the US. Now, just four months after it was announced, the gPC from Everex has been canned by Wal-Mart because of poor sales. Perhaps Linux advocates are barking up the wrong tree pursuing desktops instead of sub-notebooks.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
I don't know about others but I was personally disappointed with Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 after the dazzling performance improvements of Beta 2. However, after five minutes of mucking around with Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 I am once again marvelling at the speed and regularity that Mozilla is releasing significant incremental improvements to its newest browser. In a word, this latest browser simply flies.
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by Stan Beer
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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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by Stan Beer
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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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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
The news that US-based online DVD rental service Netflix and leading US consumer electronics retailer Best Buy have both openly declared their support for the Blu-ray HD video format comes as yet another body blow to the HD DVD cause. However, recent sales figures show that HD DVD player sales staged a comeback toward the end of January after Toshiba slashed prices. Can the HD DVD camp possibly save the day by offering HD DVD players at DVD player prices?
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