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  • DAS Keyboard gets quieter; portable speaker lets you groove on the road

    Shaw reviews Das Keyboard's latest high-performance mechanical keyboard and AccessoryPower.com's GOgroove BlueSYNC SRC Portable Bluetooth Speaker and Receiver.

    Written by Keith Shaw • 16 May 13 20:07

  • Facebook and Minnovation

    Facebook's big announcement was a big "so what?" and minimal innovation at its finest

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 05 April 13 14:11

  • Cautionary tale from a Twitter 'share-cropper'

    Twit Cleaner is a popular web app that has been used by hundreds of thousands of Twitter users to clear deadwood from their accounts.

    Written by Paul McNamara • 25 March 13 06:16

  • Review: TelyHD Business Edition

    A group of my colleagues from different offices recently attempted a multi-party videoconference, brutally showing the continued need for a better method of video communication.

    Written by Keith Shaw • 13 March 13 15:01

  • How we manage our social networks

    Gibbs analyzes the results of his "How do you manage your social networks?" survey

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 28 Feb. 13 20:10

  • LinkedIn open sources its database change capture system

    OK, lots of interesting stuff for you this week. First up, LinkedIn has open sourced a system called Databus, a real-time database change capture system that provides a "timeline-consistent stream of change capture events ... grouped in transactions, in source commit order."

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 27 Feb. 13 15:25

  • Opinion: Predicting the tech future

    For my recent column of predictions for 2013 I polled a huge number of IT people to see what they are expecting, and ended up getting more than 400 responses.

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 15 Feb. 13 23:19

  • Outlook 2013 ... Even more interesting than 2012!

    Gibbs reviews his predictions from last year and surveys the more than 400 predictions that he's been sent by IT professionals

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 02 Jan. 13 17:04

  • What does SDN mean for telecom infrastructure?

    Software-defined networking (SDN) has the potential to transform the telecom industry by improving the ability of carriers (both wired and wireless) to flexibly deliver bandwidth "on demand." It is critical that carriers improve both their network flexibility (improved customer value) and reduce their high operational costs as over-the-top providers (e.g., Google, Amazon, Skype, etc.) challenge the carriers' ability to grow their revenues and impact their margins.

    Written by Lee Doyle, principal analyst at Doyle Research • 11 Dec. 12 20:17

  • Collaborating and videoconferencing over the cloud with OmniJoin

    Shaw reviews Brother's OmniJoin Web and videoconferencing service.

    Written by Keith Shaw • 03 Dec. 12 11:59

  • Taking 'Internet answers' for granted

    That there is nothing unusual about either of these anecdotes is what makes them so remarkable.

    Written by Paul McNamara • 03 Dec. 12 06:03

  • What comes next as Facebook and Twitter slowly die?

    Gibbs follows up on his column from two weeks ago wherein he claimed " I think I know just what might be the smart [social media] tubes of the future.

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 28 Sept. 12 14:31

  • Even World of Warcraft is tracking you!

    Is there any organization or company that can resist surreptitiously tracking its customers?

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 24 Sept. 12 04:35

  • Cell service bogus charges and limitations

    If there's one thing that chaps everyone's butt it's how the cellphone carriers seem to just keep grinding away to extract a few extra cents from their customers through bogus charges and ridiculous limitations.

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 24 Aug. 12 17:44

  • Why we don't need Internet rights but do need a level playing field

    On July 2 this year a manifesto appeared called the "Declaration of Internet Freedom," which you can find at internetdeclaration.org/ (I quote the URL for reasons that will be clear in a minute).

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 03 Aug. 12 15:27

  • A phased approach to IPv6 that's so easy, you'll almost think you're still ignoring it

    Remember when you were a kid and you got so tired of your parents nagging you to clean your room, you finally just stopped listening? It's kind of that way with IPv6.

    Written by John Matthews • 30 July 12 20:30

  • WWDC 2012: What to expect

    This year's Worldwide Developers Conference looks to be unlike any of its predecessors in scope and scale, with Apple CEO Tim Cook likely to talk about everything from iOS 6 to OS X Mountain Lion to new hardware.

    Written by Michael deAgonia • 10 June 12 16:06

  • The Great Verizon Network Extender rip-off

    A few months ago I started writing about my saga of getting AT&T U-verse DSL service established at the new location of the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker.

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 08 June 12 17:31
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    Minchin's madness

    I'm in a bind. I can't work out whether Senator Nick Minchin is plain mad, or there is method to his madness. I'm leaning to the former, though, because of the shadow communication minister's actions since the Federal Government announced its plans to force the structural separation of Telstra. Put simply, they have been nothing more than reckless political opportunism.

    Written by Trevor Clarke • 24 Oct. 09 09:00
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    Talk about IT - underground vs overhead cable debate

    As the NBN construction chugs along in Tasmania, debate on the mainland continues as to whether laying the fibre optic cables underground is more advantageous than putting them in existing overhead infrastructure. Many industry experts have weighed in on the debate, what are your thoughts?

    Written by Computerworld Staff • 15 Oct. 09 15:13
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