yARN: Problems and oddities delay Mavericks acceptance?
Recently, IDG's Gregg Keizer reported on the rapid takeup of the free operating system updates from Apple (OS X 10.9 Mavericks) and Microsoft (Windows 8.1).
Stories by Stephen Withers
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yARN: Silver Surfers - a view from the wave
ARN’s Allan Swann recently reported Gartner vice-president David Furlonger’s warning that the IT industry should pay more attention to older users, the so-called Silver Surfers. You’d better believe it.
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yARN: Hands up, who's in favour of antivirus
One of the most heated arguments you’ll hear within the Mac community is whether or not “anti-virus” software should be used.
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yARN: Microsoft keeps tight grip on Surface distribution
Microsoft’s Surface products don’t seem to be setting the world on fire, and I can’t help wondering whether that’s because the number of places you can buy the tablets has been extremely limited. So far, the options have been Microsoft’s online store, Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi.
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yARN: How branding can be a double-edged sword
When Apple or Google acquires a company, it’s usually quietly folded into the business and the original name disappears (such as GrandCentral) or perhaps becomes a feature name (Siri) or product name (Android).
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yARN: Why PC sales are falling away
IDC recently tipped a global drop in PC shipments of almost 8 per cent this year. That’s got to be bad news for most people in the hardware business.
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yARN: Now, about that Surface RT education offer ...
Why Apple probably won't be too worried about Microsoft's Surface RT offer to educational institutions.
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yARN: Bricks and clicks
One of the ways that ‘real world’ retailers are trying to play to their strengths is by allowing customers to order online and then collect the goods from a convenient branch.
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yARN: Phone grumbles
There’s a shift going on with phone numbers, and curiously things are moving in opposite directions at the same time.
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yARN: Think twice before roaming
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman is dealing with fewer complaints, but some of them involve astounding amounts of money.
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yARN: Oracle plugs SPARC
This month, Oracle has been celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the SPARC processor.
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yARN: Time to have your say ...
The Australian Law Reform Commission enquiry into Copyright and the Digital Economy has the potential to affect the lives of practically all Australians, so you owe it to yourself to put forward your views on the matter.
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yARN: The price is right - or is it?
One of the things I remember from the economics courses I took as a university student is that sellers would ideally like to set an individual price for each customer.
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yARN: Are the browser wars back?
Ah yes, the browsers wars - do you remember the early days of the commercial web when it seemed just about everybody was using Netscape Navigator? And then Microsoft pushed back with Internet Explorer to eventually take what seemed an unassailable market share, a perspective that overlooked the fact that Internet Explorer had come from being the new kid on the block.
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yARN: Are we in for a fresh wave of interest in virtual desktops?
The traditional reason for considering virtual desktops in place of conventional PCs has been TCO, with much of the saving coming from the ongoing management and administration benefits. But those savings largely accrued because of the difficulty of managing large numbers of PCs, so small businesses couldn’t really benefit unless they went down the DaaS (desktop as a service) route.
