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What's your laptop security policy?
While there's still a space for laptops in many organisations and homes, it'd be daft to consider the desktop the primary way that we compute these days. That role must belong to notebooks, which have in recent years gained the lion's share of the computing market. They're under some pressure from the tablet market, but both laptops and tablets share a key feature point -- portability -- that's also a distinct liability...(Read more of this article)
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Music To Your Ears?
Fifteen years ago, if you wanted music for your computer, it was a pretty simple affair. You went out, and you bought a CD from a shop -- or perhaps via mail order if you were a serious distance from the nearest CD store...(Read more of this article)
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Understanding 4G Networks
Telstra's made a big splash recently with the launch of its first '4G' product -- although depending on whose definition you adopt, it might not be 4G at all. Fourth generation wireless networks, and 4G specifically as a term have been used in varying ways by different groups overseas, so much so that some of what passes for overseas '4G' -- especially in the US -- is currently sold in Australia as 3G!..(Read more of this article)
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Do Direct Imports Make Good Sense?
Just recently, bricks and mortar retailer JB Hi-Fi announced it was starting up a direct sales model, selling high end cameras and lenses sourced directly from overseas at lower prices than standard retail. This isn't a new concept; direct importing (sometimes referred to as grey market importing) is perfectly legal. The reason it works (from a money perspective) is because the tax implications are slightly different, and for the most part, directly imported goods are shipped straight to you; this means there's no need for warehouses, stores, staff and so on. JB Hi-Fi's just the latest (and certainly the largest) to have jumped on this particular bandwagon...(Read more of this article)
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