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  • In Defence Of The PgDn Key

    One of the most common anecdotes at tech conferences is the “child swipes TV” story. This is the gist of it: my infant offspring walked up to the television and tried to swipe the screen because they think it’s an iPad. This “proves” that touch-screen interfaces are intuitive. Babies can use them!


  • IPv6 Still Slow To Attract Support

    We have had occasion in the past to lament the relatively low uptake of IPv6 to date, despite a growth in the number of connected devices. Analysis by Cisco suggests that this situation will improve somewhat in Australia, but even so less than half of all internet-connected devices worldwide will be IPv6-capable by 2017.


  • Use The Two-Thirds Rule For BYOD Schemes

    One of the challenges with any bring your own device (BYOD) plan is working out who pays for the device. It’s not fair to simply make the employee cough up (though that’s disturbingly frequent), but how you can you reasonably allocate costs for a phone or tablet that will also be used for personal tasks?…