Archive for the ‘Headlines’ Category

Farewell MSN Groups

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I've been an active participant in MSN groups back in the hay day when groups were communities and communities were BB's.  My work with ninemsn put me in positions where participation in the multitude of forum types were at times required or needed to keep track of the latest trends ...

YouTube Fake Out

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

So it seems new methods for computer infiltration has raised its sneaky little head this time in the guise of YouTube.

World Wide Web Foundation

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Inventor of Web announces creation of new foundation to bring the Web to all people. Sir Tim Berners-Lee announces World Wide Web Foundation. Full Article: World Wide Web Foundation Read Tim Berners-Lee Speech regarding the World Wide Web Foundation

Nigerian scamers

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

There are certainly some naive people out there that consume the Internet (good idea to introduce the concept of a Internet License); but people who fall for the lure of Nigerian scammers certainly take the cake for the stupid of the stupid; ashamedly there are a fair amount of Aussies ...

Australian Broadband Guarantee

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Australia has most probably the worst broadband capabilities in the western world. This week saw the new Australian Government release its first budget and in it they announced that "$270.7 million will be made available to fund the Australian Broadband Guarantee program until June 2012." The Broadband Guarantee guidelines include: A higher level ...