As part of its 30 years of mobile phones in Australia celebrations, Telstra commissioned a survey of mobile phone usage in Australia. One interesting stat: 30 per cent of Gen Y respondents check their mobile phone as soon as they wake. How quickly do you reach for your phone?
It isn’t news that most of us would like to earn a decent salary. However, the pay is rarely the sole motivation for choosing a new job. What other considerations come into play if you’re thinking about taking up a new position?
We’re always told not to share our passwords with others, but the rule is harder to apply when it’s your significant other who wants to check those party details in your Gmail. Are you happy to share passwords and PIN codes with the love of your life?
No matter what the size of an organisation, there are two things you can be confident of: it has ambitious ideas when it comes to IT project planning, and it very often fails to realise them.
Many Lifehacker readers favour Channel BT over pay TV, but there are more than 1.6 million households which pay for Foxtel, and another three-quarters of a million which have Austar. Oddly, having lots of extra channels isn’t necessarily a major incentive for choosing to pay for TV.
Making money through investment follows a simple rule: the bigger the potential risk, the greater the potential reward. How do you strike a balance between growing your long-term savings quickly and not losing everything?
GPS devices revolutionised the way we get around, but these days stand-alone GPS systems face competition from smart phones running GPS apps, navigation systems built into cars, and even smart phones simply being used to refer to Google Maps occasionally. What’s your preferred strategy for making sure you don’t got lost?
We realise quite a few Lifehacker readers work as developers or programmers, and we’re cooking up some plans for a future competition and event which would reward the most ingenious and productive amongst you. But we want to know what should go in there to make it appealing to you guys, so we’re seeking a bit of input.
There’s been lots of discussion about using cloud technologies to make business more efficient, and our forthcoming TechLines panel will take an in-depth look at the benefits and the pitfalls. How heavily has cloud computing already impacted your workplace?
