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Petty stoush goes on and on
Michael Crawford
Strike the blockbusters off Communication Minister Stephen Conroy's Christmas must-see list, because now the bids for building the National Broadband Network have closed his holiday plans have no doubt have been shelved.
A dollar short
Paul Smith
In comparison to other exec packages, CIOs are under-selling themselves on pay day.
P2P? It's TV's fault
Ben Woodhead
As there's clearly not enough handwringing over Hollywood suing iiNet, I should add my two cents - it's Australia's miserly free-to-air broadcasters wot's to blame.
Walking the plank
Ben Woodhead
Did Wii-stealing Somali sea pirates also force Yahoo's Jerry Yang to walk the plank? Probably not.
Open door for small security
Michael Crawford
An addendum to the federal government's review of national cyber safety security might have cleared the way for small IT security players to compete with the big guys.
Tweet from the top
Julian Bajkowski
Chief Twitter Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister - now that's a job to really aspire to.
From pillar to post
Chris Jenkins
Close to the CEO is a better place to be if you have a strategy to sell
The cost of not driving
Paul Smith
The annual general meeting of Australian IT services provider Oakton was held in Melbourne yesterday and the mood of the room was, by all accounts, pretty uncertain.
$US695m is expensive PR
Michael Crawford
So Symantec has purchased yet another company to shore up an internal division, or in the correct marketese "complement a go-to-market strategy".
ACCC's hard line on inflated claims
Chris Jenkins
Australia's regulators are promising to take a hard line on websites which pump claims about dodgy products whose flaccid performance leaves consumers feeling deflated
Let it bleed
Chris Jenkins
Some CIOs are hoping that the current round of global financial bloodletting will help thin the ranks of IT vendors
Nothing in, nothing out
Julian Bajkowski
The IT sector didn't quite cotton on to what was going down in the Cutler review, a pretty serious stuff-up entirely of its own making.
Thin ain't in
Julian Bajkowski
You can keep your skinny iPod nano
What friends are for
Ben Woodhead
Sometimes when someone runs off the rails it's up to friends to hold an intervention
Comic relief
Chris Jenkins
Google's Chrome caught web watchers by surprise, but the comic book that accompanied it also got people talking
Capped at 250GB
Chris Jenkins
US cable company Comcast has had the breathtaking cheek to set a cap on user downloads at a paltry 250GB per month.
A little ray of sunshine
Ben Woodhead
Amid the gloom of reporting season there's a ray of sunshine for the information technology industry - many of the nation's largest companies aren't showing any inclination to cut computing costs.
US finds caps don't fit
Chris Jenkins
In the home of the brave and the land of the free, downloaders are starting to find out the internet ain't what it used to be.
Little hope for Commander's creditors
Julian Bajkowski
Most of the creditors that attended today's Commander creditors' meeting, chaired by Ferrier Hodgson administrator Max Donnelly, held out little hope that they could recover unsecured debts
The non-English web
Chris Jenkins
The Olympics are always a timely reminder, if ever we needed one, that not everyone speaks English
Whose turf?
Michael Crawford
For the security executive, telling employees to follow policies can be unrewarding as shaking a fist in the air and screaming at kids on the nature strip to "get off my front lawn"?
Allison? GoFigure
Paul Smith
When I asked for his name -his name, mind - he told me it was Allison
Pop the clutch in
Chris Jenkins
When I was learning to drive, my Dad wisely told me that stalling the car wasn't that big an issue
A trillion reasons for IPv6
Julian Bajkowski
Search and advertising giant Google has estimated that the number of page addresses, known as URLs (uniform reference locators) has now hit one trillion, a new milestone for the internet.
Jobs for the bots
Michael Crawford
If security pundits are to be believed, then the world is being taken over by botnets.
The undressed Olympics
Chris Jenkins
Going to Bejing to check out the games on the company or taxpayer coin? Good for you
Is the brick back?
Michael Crawford
Is the return to the bulky brick phones proof that fashion is cyclical?
iPhone surfing starts to make sense
Ben Woodhead
The endless paeans to the iPhone that Apple fan bois and grls have spewed forth over the past year went a pretty long way to turning me off the damn thing
The old one-card trick
Chris Jenkins
When politicians in NSW and Victoria ask just how good smartcard public transport ticketing systems are, the conversation frequently turns to Oysters and Octopus.
That other mobile platform
Chris Jenkins
Sure there's been a lot of iPhone hype, but have you heard much about Windows mobile lately?