Travel a few tens of kilometres outside of a major population centre in Australia and you get a very different picture of the importance of broadband. It’s a perspective that few city dwellers seem to consider. What’s even more rarely considered however is that even with the deployment of the National Broadband Network – which [...]
For the past year I’ve been fascinated with 3D printing. The ability to create a solid object on demand in minutes is probably the closest we are going to come for some time to Star Trek’s transporters, but its potential is only just starting to be realised. While 3D printing has enormous potential in the [...]
Australia’s evolution towards becoming a high-speed broadband society will bring disruption for a wide range of sectors and jobs. But will also bring a huge range of new opportunities. So how can business take advantage of the new network? It turns out that while the NBN will be many years away for a lot of [...]
SmartCompany has unveiled its list of the hottest Australian entrepreneurs aged 30 or younger. Congrats to everyone who made it – including Jonathan Barouch, Tim Fung, Taryn Williams and many more. You can check out the complete list by clicking here.
He may not have meant intended it, but if anyone deserves the title of ‘The Father of Cloud Computing’ it ought to be Amazon’s chief technology officer Dr Werner Vogels (although Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff could mount an honest challenge). It was through expanding Amazon’s services to provide the platform for powering other online businesses that [...]
It’s truly amazing what a topic of contention the National Broadband Network has become. I’ve started writing a column for the ABC on broadband, and it’s highly likely that the NBN will be regularly featured. I’m curious to see whether future columns elicit the same response as this first one. What started as an attempt [...]
For the past couple of years now I’ve found myself in some demand as a speaker on the topic of broadband technologies and their impact on business and society. The combination of the Internet and various digital technologies has had a massive impact on our lives, but often in ways that we hardly notice – [...]
Often we pundits in the media are far too quick to predict the demise of entire industry sectors at the hands of the Internet. In other instances, entire segments disappear without anyone really noticing, with the change only to be identified in hindsight. In this article for SmartCompany I chose four sectors that have been [...]
IT used to be easy. Well, at least easier. The CIO would set the policies for their organisation – which hardware to use, which software programs to load, etc – and users would do as they were told. After all, it’s not as though they could do much about it. Some time in the 1990s [...]
Influence can be measured in many ways. There is the overt form of influence, which is represented by the buying power you have (and none can top NBN Co’s Mike Quigley, pictured), the number of people you command, and the loudness of your voice. Then there are the most subtle forms of influence that emerge [...]
