Tablet will overtake kindle

Posted by Michael on January 24, 2010, 7:17pm, 68 views, Leave a comment

Excitement surrounding the impending release of Apple’s tablet device points the way towards the future of electronic readers. Read more

Mollom offers new spam solution

Posted by Michael on October 4, 2008, 7:04pm, 776 views, Leave a comment

Spam is a curse for blogs and email accounts. Bloggers now have a new option to combat the problem. Read more

Landlines less popular

Posted by on May 9, 2008, 8:03pm, 284 views, Leave a comment

A report released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority shows that 90 percent of household consumers have both a fixed line phone and mobile phone. Read more

Slaves to email

Posted by on May 6, 2008, 6:22pm, 571 views, Leave a comment

Emailing has grown by about 40 per cent per year since 1996 and consequently we have become a slave to our emails. Read more

Omnidrive shuts down

Posted by on May 5, 2008, 7:42am, 325 views, Leave a comment

Online storage solutions have become popular for people wanting to backup or store data. Read more

CDMA shutdown confirmed

Posted by on April 27, 2008, 12:31pm, 274 views, Leave a comment

Telstra has confirmed the CDMA network will be shut down at midnight on Monday eastern standard time. Read more

Defensio and WordPress

Posted by on April 26, 2008, 8:46am, 1,155 views, 2 comments

A couple of online services I use regularly have announced security upgrades overnight. Read more

Firefox 2.14

Posted by on April 17, 2008, 8:43pm, 1,261 views, Leave a comment

Firefox has released a security and stability update labelled version 2.0.0.14. It fixes a “crash in JavaScript garbage collector”. Read more

Mini laptop: Asus eeePC

Posted by on April 15, 2008, 10:58am, 1,822 views, Leave a comment

I bought a “new toy” as my wife calls it. It’s a mini laptop computer … an Asus eeePC 4GB black notebook with Windows XP to be precise. Read more

New communications

Posted by on October 22, 2007, 9:59pm, 354 views, Leave a comment

The way we communicate has changed dramatically in my relatively short lifetime.

When I did computer studies at school in 1983 it was all programming theory; we didn’t have any actual computers in the classroom.

When I started working as a journalist in 1987 we used typewriters, the office didn’t have a fax machine and there was no such thing as a mobile phone. Read more