Web firm does open source thing
An Auckland Web design company is following the open source model to success - creating commercial products and planning to give something back to the community.
Stories by Mark Broatch
Stats Watch: Filling broadband
What is broadband for? Faster, more complex ways of doing business and getting services, education and playing games, for a start.
Stats Watch: Getting in line for web services
Here's one for the longer term. An increasing number of end-user organisations and vendors are becoming enamoured with web services, a development approach using XML-based standards to create loosely coupled applications and interlink existing legacy systems.
Money in Linux for tools vendor
There is money to be made in Linux, says a longtime senior staffer for development tools company Borland.
Web services present host of developer issues
Analysts at a developers' conference in Sydney last week identified several issues that developers and companies need to get to grips with before attacking IT projects using Web services.
E-tales: Good chance
Biometrics Institute head Dr Ted Dunstone says he personally believes the US Congress has “Buckley’s chance” of getting countries with automatic visa waivers to incorporate digital biometrics in their citizens’ passports by 2004.
Stats Watch: Wi-Fi shows its charms
The temperature of a technology can usually be gauged by having a shufty at who’s putting money and energy into it. On that basis, Wi-Fi is a trifle warm now that Toshiba, HP and Microsoft have come to the party. The trio are just the latest victims to the wireless networking charms of Wi-Fi, known to standards-designers as 802.11b, which uses “hotspots” – access points into which users wielding portable devices can tap to gain access to the internet and email.
Stats Watch: But we breathe, we change
Managing change within organisations is often considered one of the most arduous tasks for bosses, but also and ultimately one of the most necessary and rewarding.
Biometrics approaching its promise: specialist
In some ways it’s lucky that biometrics hasn’t taken off, says the head of an Australian institute dedicated to the field.
It's choice, guys
Is Linux worth all the column inches we currently devote to it?
Stats Watch: From acorns ...
Vodafone NZ says 37 million text messages are sent each month by its customers, topping a million a day. Telecom says eight million messages are sent by its customers each month, three times what it was doing at the same time last year. The difference in numbers, says Telecom, comes from the fact that text messagers comprise only half its customer base, which is older and more business-oriented.
E-tales: Absoluteconfusion.com
If you have occasionally wondered what the latest buzzword really means, you are most definitely not alone. Whatis.com has compiled a list of the 10 most misunderstood terms in IT — as reported by those who actually work in the industry.
Simple desires, complex answers
I remain to be convinced that text messaging has any great use beyond filling in time on public transport and during interminable meetings. But plenty of developers seem keen to prove me wrong.
Stats Watch: Finance industry virus target but best protected
Percentage of firms which sustained security attacks other than a virus: 81%
ARC's winning habit
Tony Darby says he uses industry awards as part of his project review — a handy IT management technique, given that he is on the receiving end of a second Computerworld Excellence award in as many years.