[Australia's] Telco leaders unite to pan NBN & lobby for ubiquitous wireless ‘NBN 3.0′ (iTWire, 31 August 2010): Executives from seven of Australia’s telcos have united to lobby against the NBN, claiming Australia’s broadband future is best left to the market, and best served by ubiquitous wireless coverage. They have formed the Alliance for Affordable [...]
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When building things inside virtual machines becomes an integral part of one’s real-life job, most people are faced with two insatiably limiting factors: amount of memory (RAM) and disk speed. While disk *space* is cheap and plentiful, RAM and fast disks still remain much of a technical barrier when it comes to equipment not only [...]
I just had to do it. I took the plunge as soon as it came out. I audaciously went through the process of upgrading my iPhone software to the new iOS 4 first thing in the morning. The result: loss of mail, contacts, music, documents, apps, and all my content and settings, which in turn [...]
While project management is not my job description, I acknowledge that it is a sensitive subject that plays a major role in determining the profitability of a team, particularly in a vendor environment where the team provides services to an external client. In a small project where its size does not warrant a dedicated project [...]
In November 2009, I found Click to Flash and put an end to unwanted loading of Flash animations in Web browser windows, at least on my MacBook. Most of the time, Flash meant a waste of time, Internet bandwidth, and CPU power. It was also the number one (if not the only) cause of infuriating [...]
Despite its currently dominant position in the market, Adobe Flash is not the most universally accessible platform when it comes to the delivery of interactive content. Ceteris paribus, I’d say Adobe’s share in the world of rich internet applications will draw a downward curve over the coming months and years. The first reason is competition: [...]
It’s been a while since I developed Web applications in ColdFusion. Although my command of ColdFusion has gone rather rusty, it still remains my favourite nostalgic programming platform. InfoWorld has revealed a truly interesting development: The next version of ColdFusion will feature SharePoint integration. Lately I have been wondering where the product was headed, and [...]
I have been observing a certain string of news headlines and editorials since the death of Michael Jackson: Google mistook Jackson searches for Net attack Michael Jackson memorial pushes Internet traffic to its limits Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack Report: NKorean army suspected over cyberattacks For Web apps, performance remains an uphill [...]
Does a person’s occupation or professional title dictate whether they are a geek? Probably not. This might serve as a counter-example (translation: Is Mr Fillon our Prime Minister a true geek?). Even in workplaces whose members are allegedly tech-savvy, it’s kind of hard to find people who are geeky at the core. I, too, have [...]
Hijacking mouse clicks? No, it’s not a marketing concept. “Clickjacking” is the scariest most diabolic security threat to everyday computing I have come across in a long while. And unlike those countless viruses out there, being a Mac user doesn’t automatically protect one from this type of attacks. So what is clickjacking? In a nutshell, [...]