Cracks appear in Windows corporate dominance

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:15:33 GMT

Apple sold $US12 billion worth of iPads and iPhones to enterprise customers in 2011 and that could more than double to $US28 billion by 2013, Forrester estimates.

How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:33:43 GMT

The New York Times has a very interesting article that challenges the preconception that manufacturing is performed in China purely because of low labour costs. This is part of the argument of course, but increasingly the end-to-end supply chain, skills, and capability is more important.

Want to know why Wikipedia have a black out?

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:00:28 GMT

Proposed US legislation on SOPA and PIPA is creating a very controversial response within the IT industry to the point that a number of sites including Wikipedia have a blackout today. If you are like me and you are trying to figure out what this is all about, then the following article may help.

BBC News replaces Flash with HTML5

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:47:21 GMT

Hardly bleeding edge, but a continuation of a global trend; the BBC has formally adopted HTML5 for videos on its news website.

How To Google It

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:48:58 GMT

Often these days it not about knowing all the answers but how good you are at finding them. It is therefore important to have good Google search skills. This little visual offers several tips for enhancing and fine-tuning your search results.

Sandfield Is Now A Google Apps Authorised Reseller

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:35:46 GMT

Sandfield has been using Google Apps for several months now and it has revolutionised the way we communicate and collaborate both internally and with our clients.

Our primary focus has been on thinking about ways that we can build on top of the Google Apps core to help our clients with their specific requirements.

Now, as a Google Apps Authorised Reseller, we're in an even better position to help others make the leap as well. Check out our Google Apps Services page for more information on the services that we can offer!

Windows 8 Failure Could Set Off Tech Industry Chain Reaction

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:50:21 GMT

In this thought provoking piece, Paul Thurrott speculates about how our tech world may change if Microsoft mis-steps with Windows 8, and that perhaps it may have already changed.

Internet Explorer drops below 50 percent of Web usage

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:40:10 GMT

Interesting stats from October browser usage. Among them:

5.5 percent of Web usage [is] conducted on smartphones and tablets.

Internet Explorer 6 and 7, which aren't current on any supported version of Windows, are still the version used by 25.4 percent of Internet Explorer users, 13.38 percent of desktop users as a total.

Firefox retains its clean split between people on the new, rapid release versions (4-9) and those on the old stable version (3.6). The rapid release users are upgrading fairly quickly, though the cut-overs are neither as rapid nor as automated as those of Chrome. However, almost a quarter of Firefox users are sticking with version 3.6. Until and unless Mozilla produces a stable edition with long-term support, this is unlikely to change.

See full stats here.

Note, different websites always have different browser stats depending on what sites they measure them off. These are from: http://www.netmarketshare.com/

iPhone Siri is 'Seriously Underrated'

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:41:57 GMT

When it comes to voice control, voice recognition and artifical intelligence Siri appears to have really moved the game on. Is Siri the user interface breakthrough that multi-touch was? Perhaps. The key difference appears to be use of natural language when interacting with Siri. No longer do you need to think 'how do I need to say this so the computer can understand me'. Check out this video from Bloomberg for some interesting insights.

Morgenthaler Says iPhone Siri Is 'Seriously Underrated' (YouTube)

Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs and distinction between design and use

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:43:08 GMT

Stephen Fry in his blog:

"As always there are those who reveal their asininity (as they did throughout his career) with ascriptions like “salesman”, “showman” or the giveaway blunder “triumph of style over substance”. The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a marvellous and instant indicator of a fool. For those who perceive a separation between the two have either not lived, thought, read or experienced the world with any degree of insight, imagination or connective intelligence. It may have been Leclerc Buffon who first said “le style c’est l’homme — the style is the man” but it is an observation that anyone with sense had understood centuries before. Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance."

Absolutely spot on. Go to the blog.