Many people are aware of the dangers of missed punctuation as is highlighted by the campaign “Use commas. Don’t be a psycho.”. This is graphically illustrated by the accompanying statement “I like cooking…
- Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
It seems Australia is going to be subjected to another politically inspired attempt to deal with internet piracy. Attorney-General George Brandis has motivated this move by claiming that the “success achieved…
The world of cryptocurrencies took another dramatic turn this week with the announcement of a bug discovered on one of the major bitcoin exchanges. As a result, the MtGox Bitcoin exchange stopped allowing…
In 1975, George Pake, head of the famous Xerox PARC felt that the paperless office was an inevitability. He imagined that by 1995 the world would be using computers to read documents and that this revolution…
In yet another of the weekly revelations from the Snowden NSA PowerPoint slides, Guardian journalists have now reported that the NSA and GCHQ have been allegedly spying on Angry Birds users. Not content…
It seems governments are finally coming around to the idea that virtual currencies are here to stay. Backed by a business community eager to utilise innovations like Bitcoin, California and New York are…
In the movie her, the main character, Theodore Twombly falls in love with the operating system of his computer. The operating system is run by an artificial intelligence who Theodore calls Samantha, who…
To say that Microsoft is struggling at the moment is an understatement. The search for a new CEO is not going well, Microsoft mobile phones are still failing to capture any significant mind and market…
When Australian online labour market company Freelancer decided to list publicly on the Australian Stock Exchange last year, they did so in part to spur investment in the local technology industry. That…
The recent release of the Commonwealth Bank’s CommBank app for the Samsung Galaxy S4 promised to finally herald the era of smartphone payment. The app utilises the NFC capabilities of the Samsung phone…
As Bitcoin’s backers push for it to become acceptable mainstream currency, its value has become increasingly tied to attempts to break the public image that it’s just a currency for cyber criminals. It’s…
According to analyst firm Gartner, Big Data is at the portion of the hype cycle called the “peak of inflated expectations”. The business world is awash with all sorts of claims about the magic of Big Data…
Online labour marketplace Freelancer.com listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on Friday and saw immediate gains on its initial stock price of 50 cents to a high of A$2.60 before closing at A$1.60…
When Amazon, known by most as an online department store, extended its web services business into Australia in 2012, few outside the IT sector noticed. Data released last week by the Australian Securities…
In another episode of the ongoing rollercoaster of a story that is Bitcoin, about 4,100 of them have been stolen from an online bitcoin wallet site inputs.io. At current exchange rates, this puts the value…
Federal health minister Peter Dutton has commissioned a review of Labor’s troubled Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project. It’s unclear whether the review committee is to decide…
With each new revelation of the scope of the American National Security Agency’s spying, perceptions of the importance of privacy are hardening around the world. Systematic monitoring of the world’s communications…
In a move that has stunned the technical and security communities for what is possibly the worst idea for a software application this year, LinkedIn has announced the availability of an iPhone/iPad application…
With the release of new iPads and Mac hardware, Apple announced that not only would the latest version of the Mac OS, Mavericks, be free, but it would also be giving away its iWork office productivity…
Freelancer, the online freelance and labour market site has issued its prospectus ahead of a listing on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Although perhaps not a household name, Freelancer is a rapidly…
This week the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that they had manufactured 1 million Raspberry Pi computers in the UK. In an age when the very thought of manufacturing anything outside of China would be…
In another possible major embarrassment for Apple, numerous users are reporting problems with the motion sensors of the iPhone 5S in what is being called “sensorgate”. It appears that the gyroscope, compass…
In a blow for the burgeoning economy of black markets on the Internet’s so-called “Deep Web”, trading site the [Silk Road](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace) has been shut down by US…
People who use mobile devices to monitor their health may be surprised to hear that up until now, there has been little definitive guidance on what medical apps need regulatory approval. In some cases…
For most people, smartphones are synonymous with only a handful of companies. This is understandable given that the market leaders Samsung and Apple are responsible for 50% of global smartphone sales…
