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Australia Unlimited – The Young Ones
Australians have always been drawn to Silicon Valley, but never in the numbers that are present today. The hard work of Aussie entrepreneurs over the past two decades has succeeded in opening doors right across the Valley venture community, and a wave of Australian start-ups are taking advantage. Many Silicon Valley funders aren’t even waiting [...]
The Australian – Financial backing needed for knowledge economy
For start-up companies in the technology industry, times have never been so good. At no time before have start-ups had so much access to cash and incubator programs, and it seems there is no shortage of entrepreneurs with good ideas to take advantage of them. In this story for The Australian, published late last year, [...]
The Australian – Numbers add up for busy business owners
Much off the discussion of cloud computing has focused on its uptake within large corporations and government departments. But in truth the greatest uptake of cloud services is occurring within small business. In many cases the business owners aren’t even aware that they are using the cloud – they are just getting on with the [...]
The Australian – Cloud services sound death knell for compact discs
Just as the combination of broadband Internet access and digital cameras has all but wiped out the need for photographic film, so too it seems that similar combinations of broadband and electronics will do the same for the humble CD. In this story published last year in The Australian I explore the statements by Simon [...]
ICF announces 2012′s top seven intelligent communities
Each year the Intelligent Community Forum searches the world for those communities that provide a model of economic and social development in the 21st Century using information and communications technology. The Top Seven for this year have just been announced – although unfortunately none of the nominated cities are from Australia (or indeed, from the [...]
The Australian – Raymond Kurzweil solves problems in his sleep
Last November I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at the Creative Innovation 2011 conference as part of a line-up that included Edward de Bono. Also on the list was Raymond Kurzweil, a US serial entrepreneur and noted futurist, so it was great to have the opportunity to speak to him while he [...]
SMH IT Pro – Gig City ‘an inspiration’ for regional towns
While debate about the cost and appropriateness of the National Broadband Network is clogging city media, in regional Australia the main question is one of ‘when can we get it’. That has certainly been the case in Victoria’s second largest city, Geelong. So keen is Geelong and its surrounding councils to get in early on [...]
SmartCompany: Australia’s 25 best business blogs
With BlogPulse now estimating that there are more than 170 million public blogs in existing around the world today, ranking any group as ‘best’ is always going to be fraught with danger. At least in limiting our scope to ‘business’ and ‘Australia’, we were able to narrow the field – somewhat. Selecting Australia’s 25 best [...]
Live from #Tech23: Social Media – Centryc, Friendorse and Roamz
The final session of the day kicked off with a presentation from David Aicken from Centryc Solutions. His company helps the managers of theme parks and festivals to learn more about their customers. Centryc’s Metag enables customers to register their wristbands with social media applications such as Facebook and Twitter, and swiping their wristband automatically [...]
Live from #Tech23: Digital Media – buildAR, Filter Squad and Hyperlocalizer
The first presentation from the digital media panel was given by Rob Manson from builAR. Rob took the audience on a journey through the possibilities of augmented reality and the buildAR platform. He demonstrated cultural implementations, interactive ad campaigns, education concepts and new forms of entertainment, such as Walls360. The second presentation was David McKinney [...]
