Category Archives: Technology

NBN Beginning To Take Shape

The impending National Broadband Network (NBN) is beginning to take shape, at least in the tender period. Australia has been far behind other countries in internet connectivity, and planning for the NBN, as postulated by the then-incoming Rudd federal government in November 2007 is moving a quite rapidly. Melbourne Club’s Broadband Bid Many Australians still […]

Fingers In The Cookie Jar

Over the recent US Memorial Day weekend, popular internet media site Revision3 was brought down by an apparent DDOS attack, launched by MediaDefender. Inside The Attack That Crippled Revision3 As you can read in the article posted by Revision3 CEO, Jim Louderback, MediaDefender were apparently deliberately attacking and abusing Revision3’s BitTorrent distribution servers. When the […]

More Bandwidth For Australia

After years of reliance on the Southern Cross Cable, and Telstra, Australia is about to receive a third major backhaul data connection to the rest of the world, with the official announcement of PPC-1. ISPs Get A Slice Of Guam Cable Though PPC-1 has been common knowledge in the communications world for some time, the […]

Knight Rider Exposed?

Possibly my favourite TV show of all time was Knight Rider. Aside from the fact that it starred David Hasselhoff – please don’t hold that against it – it was a pretty cool show for it’s time. One of the regular stunts was having KITT drive on and off FLAG’s roving workshop, in the back […]

Spam Decreasing?

This article suggests that spam on the internet might actually be decreasing. Running my own mail server, I get the chance to look at statistics as to how much mail I get, and how much appears to be spam. Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So Month to month, the amount of email passing through my […]

New Government – Still No Clue

Australia voted for a change of government last weekend. Personally, I’m still undecided whether the change will be for the good, or for the bad. There is however, one thing I am still certain of. Politicians still have no idea about the internet. No matter what their persuasion. Wireless A Cheaper Option For ALP Plan […]

The First Saviour Of The Screens

The much-loved and much-missed TechTV didn’t feature on Australian screens for a long period. No sooner had it hit our screens, after many requests to subscription television providers in Australia, than it disappeared just as quickly, thanks to the buyout by G4. Of course, the early shows never were seen over here, but here’s a […]

Agro-pedia

I love Wikipedia. The ability of the internet community as a whole to develop such an extensive knowledgebase on just about anything – (and everything!) – is something to behold. But of course, like any community, it can breed people with petty motives, and childish ideas on what a community really is. Here’s a funny […]

Next Step In Broadband Internet War

The G9 Consortium has fired it’s next salvo in the war of words with Telstra over the continuing debate over high-speed broadband in Australia. G9 Chiefs Approve Network Bid After Optus and Elders secured almost $1Bill(AUD) from the Australian government to build a WiMAX network in regional areas, the G9, led by Optus, is now […]

iPhone Hits The Street

After months of hype and expectation, the Apple iPhone is released in the United States, tomorrow morning, Australian time. While it is at least 12 months away from hitting Australian shores (or even longer), the technology is certainly interesting, and changes the mobile phone paradigm dramatically. While I love what the iPhone offers, I won’t […]