Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
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What a week it's been for mobiles.
You've only got to hang around a datacentre for about 30 seconds before someone starts raving on about virtualisation. While the cost benefits of virtualisation are obvious, the management challenges often get swept under the carpet.
It's just two months until Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Windows XP arguably its best operating system to date.
For all the horror stories of farmers left stranded by the shutdown of the CDMA network, there are plenty of success stories.
Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?
I can't say I ever thought a laptop was too heavy or bulky or genuinely inconvenient because I couldn't effortlessly slide one into an unpadded manila envelope.
The founder of Apple community site MacTalk has either uncovered the biggest Australian tech news story of the year. Or he's one mischievous bugger.
Would you be happier that Google collects data about your Internet history if you knew their log data was used to fight some seriously nasty worms?
Microsoft has finally rolled out its online storage service in Australia, but it's definitely worth reading the fine print before you sign up.
Today, Symantec released Norton 360 Version 2.0, but I wonder whether the security giant has learned from its past mistakes?
Spending time hanging out in Second Life has convinced me of one thing: very few real-world processes benefit from being replicated by a bunch of avatars -- and that goes doubly for storage.
What a difference a decade makes.
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