Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is one of the two main events of the year where Apple gives pause to the rumour mill about its future plans and tells all. Well, almost all. Although Apple has launched…
- Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
There is really no getting around the fact that staying secure on the Internet is hard, if not impossible, to achieve. Yes, users can do more to keep themselves safe by adopting good security practices…
Samsung has just released an updated version of its health software for the Samsung Galaxy S5 that measures stress levels. Using the heart rate sensor on the back of the phone, the S5 will calculate a…
Society’s mistrust of technology is deep-rooted. Fear of technology’s misuse has been exploited in popular horror and science fiction for hundreds of years. Mary Shelley’s monster Frankenstein for example…
In a surprising move, a US District Court has charged five members of the Chinese military with hacking six US companies to obtain commercial secrets over the last eight years. The move has been denounced…
Georgia Tech has become the first university to offer a Masters degree based on massive open online course (MOOC)-style courses in partnership with MOOC provider Udacity. Costing less than $7,000, the…
Visions of a cashless society started being portrayed from the 1950’s along with other aspects of a future waiting to be transformed by technology. That future has not yet arrived but it is now possible…
As first announced by the Financial Times it seems almost certain that Apple will buy premium headphone and audio company Beats for $3.2 billion. Apple was expected to announce the news next week but have…
The upcoming IPO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is likely to be the biggest the US market has seen. At an expected US$20 to $25 billion, it would be one and a half times bigger than Facebook’s IPO…
Another battle in the ongoing patent litigation war between Apple and Samsung has just been called with a US jury awarding Apple about $120 million in damages for Samsung’s infringement of two iPhone patents…
The American reviews of Yukari Iwatani Kane’s book Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs have not been kind. Having covered Apple for three years as a journalist at the Wall Street Journal, Kane would…
The departure of Vic Gundotra, the Google executive in charge of Google+ has fueled speculation about the future of the social networking platform. According to an article in Techcrunch, members of the…
Content is king. The website is dead. About 6 months ago, Coca-Cola declared that “Content is King, and the Corporate Website is Dead”. The blog outlined how storytelling was the cornerstone of 21st century…
Virtual currency Bitcoin is not a subject that ever draws neutral reactions. Against those who see the radical possibilities of a frictionless payment system designed for the internet, there is a growing…
In a recent interview with the University of New England’s (UNE) ex Vice-Chancellor Jim Barber, he talked about the disruptive threat of MOOCs to the Australian higher education system. The threat was…
In what may become an increasingly common occurrence, a drone that was being used to film the Endure Batavia Triathlon in Geraldton, Western Australia, seemingly lost control and crashed into runner Raijer…
It seems like almost an almost trivial thing to unravel all that the Mozilla Corporation has done but the recent appointment of CEO Brendan Eich is threatening just that. The Mozilla Corporation is responsible…
Every day, millions of internet users leave comments on web sites and on social networks covering any topic imaginable. At its very best, commenting fosters a social community of people sharing an interest…
Most Western Australian voters are justifiably annoyed at having to vote again as a result of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) losing 1370 Senate votes cast in the September 2013 federal election…
Amongst the many challenges facing the field of journalism in the move from print to digital, the question of what distinguishes a journalist from a blogger has been a perennial one. This is not just an…
Google has set the agenda for wearables after announcing Android Wear, a version of Android designed specifically for watches and other wearables. If Apple and others were going to make a move in this…
Travelling in Europe recently I impulsively offered a friend a swap of my Samsung Galaxy S4 for her Fairphone. This was largely motivated by the fact that my friend had not managed to move from her existing…
UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced this week an extra GBP 45 million (USD $75 million) for research on the “Internet of Things”. The promise of this technology he said, is more efficient healthcare…
The release of ARIA’s music wholesale music data confirmed the ongoing move from the physical to digital. Last year, digital sales finally topped physical sales of music in Australia and now represent…
To say that Bitcoin is the troubled child of the currency family is an understatement. In another precocious turn of events, Mt Gox, the exchange site most commonly associated with Bitcoin, took down its…
