Every generation laments their soon-to-be replacement for abandoning the prevailing culture and adapting it to create their own. And so it is with the current crop of post-middle-agers who perceive teenagers…
- Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
In language that is more in keeping with hackers and crime syndicates, the Financial Times reported last week that the FBI was going to assist securities regulators in the US to tackle “dark pools” and…
It seems that Facebook is coming to terms with the fact that teenagers are fickle and are unlikely to stay interested in anything for long - even Facebook. In their annual report, Facebook admitted that"some…
It has been estimated that the average person living in a city today will be exposed to about 5000 ads a day. Of course, we are oblivious to the majority of these, but like SPAM, a small percentage of…
In a departure from the usual hype that surrounds product announcements these days, Google last week announced in an almost understated fashion, its first foray into manufacturing laptops. Despite the…
Watching journalists and analysts discuss the rumoured impending release of another gadget from Apple feels very much like watching Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” except of course that it isn’t…
Everything on the Internet is driven by clicks. It is how the value of things on the Internet are measured. The success of a site or an article on a site is judged primarily by how many clicks it got (there…
It would be easy to simply attribute the massive rise in Samsung’s popularity to its equally massive spend on marketing. It has been estimated that Samsung spent around $11.5 billion in 2012 on advertising…
If you talk about Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs to academics, or even if you read articles written around the subject, one question, actually a statement and a question, will inevitably come up…
Dell’s decision to sell itself to CEO Michael Dell and technology investment firm Silver Lake has sent analysts into a frenzy of deconstruction to try and make sense of what it actually means. Shareholders…
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald suggests that Telstra plans to start a trial to shape Internet traffic during peak periods. This has been interpreted as including the possibility of slowing down…
Since the New York Times reported last week that Chinese hackers had been attacking its computers over the past 4 months, it now transpires that the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Bloomberg News…
Research In Motion (RIM), who as of this week officially changed its name to BlackBerry, has come a long way since its beginnings in Waterloo, Canada in 1984. Started by two engineering students, Mike…
The federal government and the CSIRO announced this weekend a new $400 million ($40 million a year for 10 years) research project to boost Australia’s digital economy by an estimated $4 billion-a-year…
Two UK men were sentenced to jail last week for their involvement in launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on several websites, the most notable of which was that of PayPal. The attacks…
The stockmarket was hoping for great things from Apple’s earnings announcement for the December quarter. Most of all, they were hoping for something that would turn around a four month slide in Apple’s…
The recent tragedy of Internet activist Aaron’s Swartz’s suicide cast the spotlight directly on MIT’s actions in dealing with this case. MIT’s actions were totally at odds with their rhetoric of being…
For some, the recent collapse of UK music and DVD retailer HMV is another sign of a music industry undergoing an increasingly rapid and radical transformation to digital. Although this is partly true…
At the end of a 19 month investigation into Google’s search business by the US Federal Trade Commission, many commentators declared that Google had “dodged a bullet”. In other words, the journalists believed…
Everything about the suicide last friday of 26 year old Internet activist Aaron Swartz is tragic. Not only to those that knew him or knew of his actions but those who have discovered this only now through…
Online course host Coursera will verify the identities of participating students using web cams and technology that can fingerprint an individual’s unique typing style under a pilot project announced this…
In the UK, the Office of Fair Trading estimated that in 2006, 3.2 million adults fell prey to mass marketed scams and lost 3.5 billion GBP. In Australia, consumers are estimated to have lost $1b in 2008…
It is that time of year where, amongst other things, we will all be formulating our New Year’s Resolutions that are always as aspirational as they are sadly fleeting. In one survey the top resolutions…
Apologies first of all - the actual discussion is going to happen on The Guardian at 12 GMT - however, I will update the main points that people make here. The discussion is, in a nutshell, a live debate…
A start-up that enables universities to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) has opened for business, signing on more than 1,000 students to a 12-week computer science and engineering course from…
