Techie Isles by Darren Greenwood

Darren Greenwood

Telecom NZ savings damage prospects

If Telecom NZ wants to have any of the NZ$1.5 billion the government intends to spend on its new broadband network, it had better think long and hard before offshoring 1500 jobs. Read on…

posted by Darren Greenwood, 09 February 2010 09:39 AM 1 comment

Patch Monday by Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian

iiNet: The whys and what nows

Last week the Federal Court ruled that internet service providers are not responsible for copyright violation by their customers. This is an important decision not just for iiNet, which spent around $4 million defending the case, but for all ISPs in Australia and, indeed, globally. Read on…

posted by Stilgherrian, 08 February 2010 02:23 PM 1 comment

Gen Why? by Ben Grubb

Ben Grubb

Govt, hurry up with releasing data

A programmer scraped data from the My School website to make some really cool heat maps showing regions of smart schools — no thanks to the government, which didn't supply the data in any useful kind of format. Read on…

posted by Ben Grubb, 05 February 2010 12:24 PM 6 comments

Twisted Wire by Phil Dobbie

Phil Dobbie

Vividwireless: Visionary or virtual insanity?

In March, Channel 7 will launch its latest in a line of telecommunications ventures when vividwireless starts selling WiMax broadband to the folks of Perth. Read on…

posted by Phil Dobbie, 04 February 2010 03:32 PM 8 comments

Full Duplex by David Braue

David Braue

iPad teaches telcos to walk again

While the iPad is certain to shake up a broad range of online industries, one of its biggest lessons may well be for the world's telecommunications carriers. Read on…

posted by David Braue, 04 February 2010 12:28 PM 3 comments

bootstrappr by Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay

Expanz on assembling .NET

Matt Clarke was working for a large financial services company which had decided to take development of a new application in-house when he first met Radek Cerny, the software engineer who would become the other half of the founding team behind Australian start-up expanz. Read on…

posted by Renai LeMay, 02 February 2010 04:23 PM 0 comments

The Drawing Board by Christine Lee

Apple fosters love 'down under'

ZDNet.com.au cartoonist Christine Lee shows what the iPad really means to Australia. Read on…

posted by , 01 February 2010 05:00 PM 9 comments

Going Public by Suzanne Tindal

Suzanne Tindal

Why so quiet on the NSW IT review?

Is the NSW Government so loathe to divulge the public details of its IT review for worry of being held to a promise? Read on…

posted by Suzanne Tindal, 21 January 2010 09:01 AM 0 comments

Null Pointer by Chris Duckett

Chris Duckett

Carelessness busts Linux security

No operating system can ever properly protect a computer from trojans as long as users continue to do silly things. Just because Linux is immune to your standard drive-by viruses it does not mean that it can escape trojan horses. Read on…

posted by Chris Duckett, 09 December 2009 04:07 PM 17 comments

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