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by Angus Kidman
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Saturday, 29 September 2007 |
If there's one advantage Microsoft's Hardware division should have over
everyone else making cameras, mice and keyboards, it would be the
ability to write supporting software that worked pretty well with
Windows. So it's both annoying and mysterious that the drivers for its
latest notebook web cams are proving problematic to the point of being
literally unusable with Vista.
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by Angus Kidman
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
I've learnt two things about Vista recently: even senior citizens think
that it's a rip-off, and its problem-reporting capabilities are yet
another example of its 'lipstick on a pig' approach to life.
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by Angus Kidman
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
So far, Transit has been using Vista Business full-time for a
fortnight. And so far, we've found nothing that works better than in
Windows XP, dozens of things that are annoyingly different without
being a functional improvement, and several things that work at best
intermittently and at worst not at all. On the whole, we wish we'd
never moved.
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by Angus Kidman
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
Microsoft claims that it wants to sell 20 million Windows Mobile
licences over the next year. That sounds like an impressive number, but
getting there will require major changes in the habits of phone users
across the globe.
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by Angus Kidman
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Sunday, 29 April 2007 |
Waiting a couple of months for critical patches and purchasing Vista pre-installed on a new machine seemed like a foolproof way to avoid most of the woes new Vista users have experienced, but I hadn't counted on just how bad the networking stack in the latest version of Windows is.
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by Angus Kidman
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
Telstra's recent decision to drop usage charges for its wireless network for Qantas Club members has been welcome news for business travellers, but international flyers aren't quite so lucky.
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by Angus Kidman
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
Channel Ten's partnership with Three to offer mobile viewing of live housemate action from Big Brother may be suffering from a few teething problems, but the service still offers the kind of data download value that most business users can only gaze at enviously.
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by Angus Kidman
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
Telstra has quietly made the lives of business travellers much easier by dropping charges on its wireless hotspots in Qantas Club lounges.
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by Angus Kidman
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Friday, 30 March 2007 |
In the wake of 3's launch of its bargain-priced X-Series phone data plans, Vodafone has slashed pricing on its own 3G data offerings. While it still falls some way short of the X-Series sub-$40 target, cheaper roaming plans might make it a better choice for many mobile data users.
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by Angus Kidman
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Thursday, 08 February 2007 |
Personal Broadband Australia (better known as iBurst to most travellers) has paired up with gotalk to launch a prepaid wireless broadband service. Not being slugged with a high monthly access fee is an attractive thought, but the rates being charged will give some business travellers pause for thought.
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by Angus Kidman
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Monday, 05 February 2007 |
3 is attempting to lure business customers with a new simplified pricing plan for overseas calls and data charges. The new '3 Like Home' plans do make a more attractive package for Australians when travelling for work, but unfortunately there's still problems on the domestic front.
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Transit 
Having written about IT of almost every conceivable description since
1994, he knows what technology is on offer for regular travellers, and
also knows that most of it doesn't work the way it claims to on the
packaging.
