Will’s Blog

And some links that I saw in today’s news… Management ‘thinking short term’ Business ‘blind’ to skill shortage Both are interesting reads.

Wow, this is really good news for those who are on 3 They (Hutchison Telecom) are “planning to accelerate download speeds to 2Mbps within 18 months” from 384kbps. That’s faster than most ADSL connections available in Australia at the moment. And it’s even faster than iBurst and Unwired two local Australian Wireless internet providers. To [...]

Via AustralianIT – PM creates new IT superpower: http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11151377%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html More: via Google News

Then maybe you need Coral. What is Coral you ask? Well, check their website. And on their overview site: The availability of content on the Internet is to a large degree a function of the cost shouldered by the publisher. A well-funded web site can reach huge numbers of people through some combination of load-balanced [...]

Yesterday I had an idea for a new project. Ok, so what’s new with that? I always have ideas. Well, firstly, I still haven’t made too much progress with the previous project(s), including the Aussie Geek Ring project. And next up, it’s on deciding how I should go about it. Ok, let me ellaborate a [...]

According to this article, in today’s Australian IT, John Martinkus was saved because “Googled one of his (book) publishers’ websites in an effort to establish who he was. ” said Dateline executive producer Mike Carey. So how many people can honestly say that Google has saved their lives? Many of us probably use Google almost [...]

[Ok, while i'm still being inspired to post a new blog entry after reading this blog post by Robert Scoble (and before I lose my train of thought!).] How networked are you? Do your peers know your name? A lot of mine do, they know my name via 1) my blog and 2) the aus-dotnet [...]

According to the following InfoWorld article via Yahoo! News, Macromedia is planning to release version 1.5 of their Flex software. Official Macromedia press release can be read here. From the InfoWorld article: Version 1.5 of Flex ships in November, with prices starting at $12,000 for a two-CPU system. Flex enables enterprise developers familiar with C# [...]

Australian IT – ACS pushes own IT ‘license’. Here are some excerpts from the above article: THE Australian Computer Society (ACS) has called on government to support its bid to become the accreditation agency for the IT profession, making membership mandatory for computer staffers ranging from Microsoft Certified Engineers to high-level project managers. Information Technology [...]

According to an article in Reuters, the mobile phone (or rather the Orange SPV C500 SmartPhone as referred to in the article) could be the next iPOD killer. The Orange SPV C500 has many names, depending on which part of the world you’re in. Locally in Australia, it’ll be referred to as the i-mate SP3. [...]