Channelling

Google needs better 'people skills'

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:33:52 +1300

By David Coursey, PC World (US)

Google's inability to deal with people issues - like [Buzz privacy] and [Nexus One] customer support - makes the company look technically sophisticated but socially inept.

Hack NASA: it is said to be easy

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:09:41 +1300

It has been eight years since Gary McKinnon took a troll through the NASA and the US Department of Defence computer systems; with the US government subsequently determined to prosecute him.

Wishful thinking on Web 2.0

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:27:53 +1300

At a recent Advertising 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Barry Diller - the chairman of Expedia and the CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, an interactive commerce conglomerate - boldly predicted the internet will be a ”paid system” in three to five years.

Wolfram Alpha - the new kid in town

Fri, 08 May 2009 14:59:25 +1300

With the heady rise of Google in this new millennium, and with the verb ‘to google’ entering the English language so easily, the company certainly looked like the giant killer in the world of ICT for the 2000s.

Crap 'Friends'

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:15:42 +1300

A company supplies a service to the marketplace. However, some people through using the company’s product are getting severely reprimanded at their jobs and in the worst cases are being sacked.

An Apple of an idea

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:06:23 +1300

The Woz has been eliminated from the US version of Dancing With The Stars. Yes, the creative genius behind Apple was ever so publically back in the spotlight and lasted through four episodes before getting the boot.

It's good to share?

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:51:11 +1300

Gathering information on people dates back to when 'governments' discovered the power of recorded information (the written word) and the joys of taxation.

Overpackaging

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:13:23 +1300

Happy New Year to all Reseller News readers - in fact, to readers in general. It's an appropriate time of the year to be thinking about packaging, after all that unwrapping during the cash and credit onslaught that Christmas has become. It's a time customarily accompanied by piles of waste cardboard and wrapping paper, and this time the problem seems to have worsened.

Planet Google (part three)

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:35:04 +1300

In his book Planet Google the author, Randall Stross, covers Google’s controversial move into the scanning of books.

Planet Google (part two)

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:03:02 +1300

Randall Stross’ book ‘Planet Google’ kicks off with an investigation into what is ‘open’ and ‘closed’ within the online world.

Planet Google (part one)

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:10:42 +1300

I’ve been reading Randall Stross’ book 'Planet Google', subtitled One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organise Everything We Know.

Braindead: Information Technology Ignorance (part 2)

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:13:21 +1300

The long, drawn-out persecution of Julie Amero in Norwich, Connecticut, US, has highlighted the critical importance of computer security and the responsibilities of organisations to protect their employees.

Outlier in a new community

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:10:11 +1300

You remember that cliché about change being the only constant? Well, it applies to writing about technology as it does to everything else. Sometimes the only way to make sense of change is to be a dispassionate observer. At the moment, few of us have that luxury; change touches everyone.

When social networking goes bad

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:02:08 +1300

After writing about technology for the best part of five years, you would think I would have learned a trick or two about the effective use of such technology.

Gettin' chipped

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:49:40 +1300

There is a DVD, Zeitgeist, peddling the old-hat conspiracy theory that the world is run by a secret government - in this case a banking cartel. It’s laughable really, because if a banking cartel has been running the world for the past 100 or so years then they are clearly doing a pretty crap job.