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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 08 May 2006 |
Hands up those of you who remember the Sony Walkman? Well my son just received a sleek new 4GB iPod Nano for a present yesterday but I didn't have the heart to tell him that this time next year he may as well use it as an oversized spare memory stick or pass it to his little brother as a hand me down. Unless of course we get his brother a mobile phone too.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
The recent ruckus about the claimed growing vulnerability of Mac OSX from certain sources has caused an indignant outcry from Mac advocates who claim the stories are mostly media hype. According to an expert in Unix and Linux systems, the outcry is not without justification.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 30 April 2006 |
Microsoft insists that Windows Live is not just an attempt to rebrand its MSN services business. This is probably a good move, given that MSN is going backwards fast. However, there is no doubt that Windows Live is a fresh attempt by Microsoft to win marketshare in the online space where Google and Yahoo dominate.
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by Stan Beer
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Saturday, 29 April 2006 |
The announcement yesterday that sent Microsoft shares sliding by 11% is an indication that the company no longer has confidence in its current business model to generate the sort of growth shareholders have come to expect. What's more, neither does the market.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 23 April 2006 |
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The Windows on a Mac story just seems to be
one that refuses to go away. It seems that the whole world is going cock-a-hoop
and doing back flips over the new-found ability of the Intel Mac to run Windows
natively. What few seem to be saying is that it’s a crock.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 21 April 2006 |
 The past few weeks have revealed much about the great paradox that is China. It is a nation that wants a capitalist lifestyle with centralised totalitarian rule. The past weeks have also revealed a lot about the Western World's biggest IT companies, Namely, they'll do just about anything to crack the giant fortune cookie market.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 |
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Portal billing acquisition fits with Oracle's Linux plans
The last time Larry Ellison mulled over buying a company, a corporate war erupted. However, in the end Larry got his way and PeopleSoft is now Oracle. Is the same thing going to happen to Novell? If so, it will be good for Linux and the best thing to happen to desktop computing in 20 years.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 17 April 2006 |
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Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet
Back in the mid 1980s, it would have been hard to imagine anyone breaking the IT market dominance of the mighty IBM. Big Blue was seven times as big as the number two player. Then along came Microsoft, changed the rules of the game and usurped the throne. Now along comes Google and the open source movement and the rules have changed again. In an era of open source, web services, wireless connnectivity and converged communications, can Microsoft maintain its market grip going forward?
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 17 April 2006 |
About 18 months ago, we ditched the worn out early model DVD player after buying our youngest son an Xbox for his birthday because we realised we had also bought ourselves a new DVD player. If we had bought him a PS2 the same thing would have applied. However, if we happen to one day decide to fork out the money for a high-definition TV (HDTV), the choice between a Microsoft and Sony games player will actually matter.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 17 April 2006 |
It seems that these days there are so many different ways to contact people that their friends and associates have to keep a database of the landlines, fax numbers, mobile numbers, email addresses, websites, Skype handles and - who knows - some people may even still be contactable by telex.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 14 April 2006 |
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Apple & Windows: a hyped tale of two proprietary systems
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Microsoft looks to emulate desktop dominance in gaming
The latest Google web service offering, Google Calendar, may not be the end all and be all of desktop organisers. It may not have any special features that cannot be found in other organiser products, such as Microsoft Outlook. However, it is just one more nail in the coffin of the old software paradigm that Microsoft made its own in the 1980s.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
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Mac OSX on PCs floodgates opening
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It's a wireless world, but not for Apple
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Apple targets PC giants with Boot Camp
Over the past week we have seen numerous reports of basically much ado about nothing. Contrary to what many pundits are saying, the fact of the matter is most Apple Macintosh users hate Windows and vice versa, so who cares if the new Intel Macs can run both operating systems?
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 06 April 2006 |
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Ansearch acquires Mambo Communities
One of the benefits of the Open Source software phenomenon that has not been given a great deal of attention is how much power it puts in the hands of the software developers at the coalface.
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