I found out yesterday that Melbourne IT is to acquire NetRegistry, and in my view it’s buying it for a steal ($50.4m). Deja vu – Melbourne IT bought WebCentral in 2006, and all it’s done in the meantime is bleed it dry. The irony is that Melbourne IT claims the “WebCentral plan” bled it dry. With… Read More Melbourne IT NetRegistry Acquisition
Negotiating on behalf of a client today, hard-ass credit department guy on the other end of the phone says: “Mate, what’s your hourly rate? Why don’t you whip out your wallet and we can fix this right away. Cheaper than the time you have wasted talking to me.” I had to humour him. “I like… Read More Host hostage
News just in: Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple Inc. His resignation letter doesn’t say why, but I don’t think there are any surprises as to the reason. Jobs has had a major influence on the destiny of Apple, with his recent decisions positioning Apple very strongly in the short term. It’s said that Apple… Read More Out of a Jobs
I have decided to bite the bullet and get rid of the fax line. There was a time when it had a purpose, but now the vast bulk of what I receive via fax is spam, or material that could have just as easily been sent as an email (and that includes the spam). Furthermore,… Read More Time to face the fax
This scam has been going around for a while – someone from an alleged PC security company (sometimes even “Telstra” or “Microsoft”) calls up and talks you through getting to your computer’s event log. The event log is a technical record of the things done by your computer and always has a lot of stuff in it,… Read More Scamtastic!