I recently spent an exhilarating 10 minutes in the passenger seat of a new 997 Porsche Carrera S - WOW! The owner, a successful businessman, had a very interesting concept for a web idea.

The concept surrounds a website visitor's (customers) ability to personalise an item before purchase. This sent me scurrying to research what is hap...

I'll start off by saying I was privileged enough to visit the 2009 Victorian Tourism Conference last Wednesday and Thursday.

Hearing Jeff Kennett speak was one highlight, and by that I mean the way in which one person (in a way) contradicted 2 days of the conferences thought patterns, by shedding some obvious light on three fundamenta...

Smartphone sales in the U.S. up 68 percent in 2008.

New technology is created every day, is ever changing and has so much to offer. In the last few years Apple has become a big player and competitor in the tech scene and has produced some amazing gadgets. Their independent internal technologies are what set them apart, as seen in the development of their OS (operating system) in their...

There have been reports by The Age that The U.S Senate is considering a bill that will allow Obama to turn off the internet when he feels that there is a "national cyber emergency" because according to the new bill the internet is a » Read More

Life is 3D so why should we be living it through technology?

It really feels like were stepping into the 'future', and its nothing like those old movies had envisaged it. Everything is moving more and more into the 3D world- movies, TV- even print ads and articles in magazines are getting in on the action. Technology has been and alwa...

"If you build it, he will come."

There is an analogy to draw with Shoeless Joe Jackson's summoning of Kevin Costner's character in 'A field of Dreams' - build me a great website and the digital eyeballs will follow.

In reality, Darryl Kerrigan from the movie 'The Castle' is probably closer to the truth:

Web development is at a stage where business creativity dictates the direction of future website functionality. Developers around the world only continue to push the limits of the virtual world with some sense of a vested interest, and fair enough, because there is a lot to gain for everyone in the industry. My blog Business through multifoca...

It is coming to the end of the financial year. Businesses like bwired are now in the process of revising the vision of their software products. I pose the question to you - as regular users of the web - what do you look for in a website?

This is an open-ended question and anything goes.. What are your thoughts?

Lately, Amazon EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) has been one of the most exciting faces in the Cloud Computing world. The media hype and general chatter of what is now considered the future of hosting infrastructure incessantly tickle those technologically perked ears. But is it all that it's built up to be? This two part series the summarises the ...

After just coming back from overseas I had to deal with the dilemma of buying a new phone given that I smashed mine into little pieces. Now, I'm sure most people find it exciting to shop and see what's out there, be on top of the latest gadgets and all that, but personally, it doesn't interest me. I am practical and simple and want things don...

Last week we saw the introduction of EC2 be established as an alternative for the bold system admin. This week, we are here to give you an understanding of how and where the challenges for change can occur.

Note: Amazon EC2 terminology are highlighted in bold

Challenges:
Now this is wh...