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Fairfax Tech Column 76

When Australian Director, Peter Weir, released The Truman Show in 1998, I am not sure he would have thought how the world would look twenty years after the release of his movie. In the movie, Truman Burbank’s entire life is being broadcast to t…
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Fairfax Tech Column 75

Now here is an engineering challenge to keep your mind occupied over the Christmas break. Firstly, take a geostationary satellite delivering Internet connectivity to a large chunk of the earth. I have spoken about the inherent issue with satellite te…
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Fairfax Tech Column 74

Christmas is coming and people are full of good cheer. Well, at least the people I associate with are full of fun and frivolity but unfortunately there is a darker side to human nature. No matter what time of year it is, security is important. Regula…
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Fairfax Tech Column 73

With Christmas just around the corner (where did the year go?) I thought it was time to look at what gifts were available for the geek in your life. As any friend/partner/acquaintance of a true geek knows only too well, buying for the technically foc…
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Fairfax Tech Column 72

“Merry Christmas” And with those timeless words, a new communication tool was born. Twenty-five years ago last Sunday, Richard Jarvis, a director at Vodafone, was attending a party in Berkshire. His mobile phone made a noise like a phone …
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Fairfax Tech Column 71

The Internet isn’t broken, so Donald Trump has decided to fix it! And so starts the discussion around Net Neutrality. Let me start by giving a simple explanation of Net Neutrality. I have a water mains that brings water into my house from the C…
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Fairfax Tech Column 70

One of the most common concerns I hear from people contemplating putting anything in “the Cloud” is the fear that their personal information will be viewed by someone else. It is not that most people have huge dark secrets about a secret …
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Fairfax Tech Column 69

CVC. CR. AVC. PoI. FTTP. FTTN. FTTB. FW. Mbps. RSP. I think the National Broadband Network (NBN) has lots of people suffering from TMIS (Too Many Initialisms Syndrome – OK, you caught me, I made that one up). My general feeling is that people d…
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Fairfax Tech Column 68

Just when we thought there was one site left in the world that encouraged succinct and carefully chosen language, the rug has been pulled out from underneath us. On 21 March 2006 Twitter was born. The idea was simple. Jack Dorsey thought it would be …
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Fairfax Tech Column 67

The two largest companies on the US stock market launched their latest phones this week. The Google Pixel 2 went on sale on Tuesday and the first sales of the iPhone X started today. With the latest technology on offer from these two behemoths of the…
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Fairfax Tech Column 66

Back in the glory days when Australia had locally made cars, I was lucky enough to be escorted through the Toyota plant in Altona, Victoria. At the end of the tour, I asked the plant manager why the Camry still had a spare tyre. He looked at me as if…
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Fairfax Tech Column 65

“Now look at them yo-yos that’s the way you do it; You play the guitar on the MTV. That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it; Money for nothin’ and [outdated and politically incorrect] chicks for free.” Wit…
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Fairfax Tech Column 64

In a Fox News interview in the US last month, Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, admitted that he no longer uses a Windows based mobile phone. It was an admission of massive proportions. Windows 10 Mobile has been floundering in the marketplace with o…
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Fairfax Tech Column 63

I have spoken before about the Smart Home and the variety of devices that are either on the market or about to hit the market that aim to be at the centre of the Smart Home. For some people, the total integration of the home and taking that colossal …
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