Category Archives: Information Technology

Dell Email Database Breached

This evening it was reported that Australian customers of global computer manufacturer Dell, may have been part of a security breach in which their name and email address have been exposed to hackers. I received the following email warning from Dell: Are you affected? If you’ve ever done business with Dell which included the supply [...]

Internet Explorer Slipping?

I am an avid watcher of the statistics of visits to my websites, because a wide range of interesting trends may be visible before they are widely recognised, particularly in terms of browser use. In recent months, I’ve been looking closely at the percentage of visits to my sites from various web browsers, and I [...]

WTF Moment from The Australian

Flicking around the online news media over a cup of Earl Grey this afternoon, I came across this rather peculiar article at The Australian website. “COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy seems destined to make his own job harder than needed, with breathtaking gaps in his consultative process and an extraordinary belief that everyone should simply take [...]

Who Gives the Coalition NBN Information?

On my way home from the office yesterday, I caught an extraordinary speech from the House of Representatives from Member for Macquarie, Louise Markus, in regards to a motion to have National Broadband Network (NBN) enabling legislation read in the house for a second time. Listening to her speech, I was repeatedly flabbergasted out just [...]

What If Telstra Just Disappeared?

There has been a valid and interesting debate with respect to the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). Why is it we need to replace what is almost a complete monopoly wholesale network provider – (Telstra) – with another complete monopoly in NBN Co? How does replacing one monopoly with another promote competition as [...]

NBN: Interesting Tidbits from Quigley

Following up on my previous post in regards to the shape of end-user NBN services, I thought I would discuss a few interesting comments made by NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley at the morning Q&A session at the NBN Customer Collaboration Forum last week in Melbourne. While I will be presenting his comments as “quotes” [...]

NBN: End User Services Taking Shape

In the first of a series of posts after attending the National Broadband Network (NBN) Collaboration Forum yesterday in Melbourne, I will discuss what has now become completely clear in terms of what services will become available to users once they are connected to the network, progressively over the next nine years. As I discussed [...]

NBN: Hands On The Hardware

Attending today’s National Broadband Network (NBN) Collaboration Forum in Melbourne, I managed to get a few moments with the hardware that end users will receive when their premises are connected to the network progressively over the next nine years. Firstly, we have the externally mounted network termination unit (NTU). The first shot is an external [...]