Ian Yates

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News > Training & Development

Nov 28, 2008

We’re all aware of the over-thin fashion models used in advertising to make us drool over clothes we could never fit into ourselves, and we’re also well aware of the claims ...

News > Voice & Data

Opinion: Send in the (network) clowns

Nov 26, 2008

In news just to hand, insurgents have hijacked another essential piece of infrastructure and are holding the government to ransom again.

News > Networking

Opinion: Switch on the PC, Jeeves

Nov 21, 2008

It’s getting to the point where the only reason to keep a bricks and mortar presence is if you need somewhere to warehouse stuff.

News > Software

Opinion: GoneCare

Nov 20, 2008

The first question punters will be asking of Microsoft’s cancelled OneCare service is where’s my money?

News > Hardware

Opinion: Marginal whiteboxes

Nov 19, 2008

How’s your whitebox business going? Still managing to sell some?

News > Voice & Data

Opinion: Power to the regions

Nov 18, 2008

When the feds finally build the much-anticipated NBN, why don’t they also do something to alleviate the chronic overcrowding and lack of infrastructure in our capital cities at ...

News > Networking

Opinion: Death of a junket

Nov 14, 2008

When networking behemoth Cisco does anything at all it usualy makes news headlines.

News > Finance

Opinion: Working for the man

Nov 12, 2008

Watching the antics of IBM trying to stop one of its execs joining Apple leaves us wondering if we're being told the whole story.

News > Hardware

Opinion: What's in the box?

Nov 11, 2008

The concept of a shipping container full of pre-configured servers, pioneered by Sun Microsystems amongst others, initially for emergency services use, is very appealing, if a ...

News > Training & Development

Opinion: Let's talk about sex

Nov 10, 2008

There's a long standing joke in IT publishing that the perfect eyeball-attracting story would be about a new computer virus which attacks Microsoft products and involves sex.

News > Voice & Data

Opinion: We have failed

Nov 5, 2008

Telstra’s T-Suite software-as-a-service offering has finally seen the light of day and the biggest shock is the sticker price.

News > Software

Opinion: It’s the security, stupid

Nov 3, 2008

Microsoft has been accused of many things over the many years of its existence but rarely has it been accused of marketing malfeasance.

News > Software

Opinion: Patchwork pain

Oct 31, 2008

Is it just me or has the rate of updates spewing forth from Microsoft increased lately?

News > Software

Opinion: Look through any Window

Oct 30, 2008

So, Windows 7 is already getting exposure via "pre-beta" release.

News > Storage

Opinion: Storing stuff safely

Oct 29, 2008

A long time ago an outfit called Iomega pioneered a removable storagethingy which let you keep a lot more of your data safe than would fiton a floppy disk, which by then ...

News > Voice & Data

Opinion: NBN gets niggly

Oct 28, 2008

While the federal government ponders how to pay for the promised national broadband network (NBN), the two main contenders to build the network, Telstra and the Terria ...

News > Voice & Data

Opinion: Famous Five

Oct 27, 2008

How many telcos does it take to install a fibre optic cable?

News > Security

Opinion: Once were hackers

Oct 24, 2008

One of the first ‘network appliances’ we bumped into about ten years ago, was a red-boxed firewall from Watchguard.

News > Voice & Data

Opinion: Regulate this

Oct 23, 2008

News of a Brisbane ISP charging customers for making complaints started us thinking that Arthur Daley had quit selling used-cars in London, migrated to the Gold Coast and setup ...

News > Voice & Data

Opinion: Yippee-kay-aye!

Oct 21, 2008

Telstra has caved in to pressure from consumers (and possibly perhaps maybe we media types might have helped) and will no longer charge one family-sized car per megabyte of ...

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