It’s been nearly 4 months since I bought my Acer Iconia A500 tablet and blogged about it here. Not much has changed, I still think it’s great. The only bugbears for me have been the WiFi dropping out in my house. The tablet seems to have the weakest radio of all the other WiFi devices [...]
I didn’t get Twitter for a while. I signed up and tentatively sent a few tweets around May 2009 but it still took me a while to get my head around why you would bother. Eventually though it has won me over. Following is a list of things that I’ve managed to use Twitter for [...]
In April 2010, Senator Conroy was quoted by Fairfax media (Sydney Morning Herald, The Age etc.) as asking "Why is the internet special?," saying the net was "just a communication and distribution platform" (see article). Here are my reasons why I believe that the internet is special (and therefore a heavy handed approach to filtering [...]
According to this ABC News article, links to child pornography were posted on the website of Senator Steve Fielding of Family First. The website hosted a forum (under the link ‘Have Your Say’) where anyone can register as a user and then post comments. I’m unable to verify because the forum is now closed, but [...]
Senator Conroy appeared on The 7PM Project last night (Wednesday 24th March 2010) in an attempt to defend the proposed mandatory ISP level filter. Watch the video below and see if you think he was convincing. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2WBsjOspNo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] It was typical spin that tried to keep the focus for RC material on child pornography when the [...]
As announced officially here, Microsoft are going to launch SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 on 12th May 2010. RTM (Release to Manufacturing) is planned for April 2010. This is great news. Here’s some of the highlights on the SharePoint 2010 side of what to expect in the new product from a developer perspective: Integration for [...]
Interesting article at New Scientist detailing how security researchers crafted an app called WeatherFist and loaded it onto various mobile phone app marketplaces. The software was actually malware and “surreptitiously relayed data about the users’ locations and phone numbers to a server controlled by Brown and Tijerina [the researchers]” The article claims that Android users [...]
So apparently Microsoft have released their first app for the Android platform, which is similar to their app for the iPhone – Tag (via Android Community). They’ve also released this same app for BlackBerry, Symbian and J2ME platforms. Why would they do this? It’s not like their app is a better version of a bar [...]
Ever wondered how the Android Marketplace compares to Apple’s App Store or how the Windows Phone Marketplace is going? Well head on over to Distimo – a company that appears to specialise in app store analytics. Lots of great info if you want to know more about the various stores out there if you’re considering [...]
As reported here, here, here, here and originally discussed here on Whirlpool, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy has censored his own web site to prevent the term ISP Filtering appearing in the site’s tag cloud. Here is a screenshot of what the tag cloud looks like as of [...]