Clementine Ford and Lindy West, doyennes of the internet and social media, feminists, and writers, are travelling to Perth, Western Australia to appear at the Perth Writers Festival. Both of these writers…
- Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
The 3 major Australian banks have signalled that they have no intention of supporting Apple Pay any time soon with an updated submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Westpac…
Whilst announcing NBN Co’s 2017 half year results, CEO Bill Morrow stated that there was little market demand for faster broadband speeds than the 100 Mbps being currently offered on the NBN. Morrow made…
As Twitter announces new measures to deal with abuse on its platform, new research from Stanford and Cornell universities has highlighted how big a challenge that is going to be. It turns out that the…
127, mostly tech, companies have signed a brief of support opposing US President Trump’s “Muslim travel ban”. The companies, that include Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Tesla have filed an “amicus…
Snapchat’s parent company Snap has filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock exchange. Hoping to raise US $3 billion, the IPO would value Snap at between US $20 and $25 billion…
In an attempt to increase the security of online accounts, Facebook has added support for 2 factor authentication using USB security keys. The security keys supported are ones that support a standard called…
The Guardian has drawn the ire of a large number of cryptography and security experts by publishing a story claiming that WhatsApp has a security backdoor that would allow it, or governments, to snoop…
As one of his parting acts as US President, Barack Obama retaliated against alleged Russian interference in the recent US election by expelling 35 Russian government officials from the US and placing sanctions…
It is 10 years this week since Steve Jobs walked onto a stage and said “Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything”. He was referring to the iPhone, launched on…
If you are one of the majority of people who make New Year’s resolutions, you are also very likely to fail at keeping them. Losing weight and being more active are always in the top 5 resolutions and unfortunately…
2016 has been a watershed year for technology. There has been some spectacular fails that have brought a more realistic perspective to the fundamental belief that technology improves with time. In part…
It was a widely anticipated moment and downloads of Nintendo’s first mobile phone game, Super Mario Run, were three times that of Pokémon Go’s initial numbers. But then came the complaints. The game is…
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde; to have all of your user accounts hacked once may be regarded as a misfortune, but to have it happen again looks like gross carelessness. Yahoo not only announced that the details…
There is no question that rural areas of all parts of the world need broadband. However, at the moment, only 29% of the world’s rural population have some form of internet, meaning that 2.4 billion people…
The centre of the innovation and startup world has shifted. Despite the sub-zero temperatures, more than 17,500 people have come to Helsinki, Finland for the annual Slush event which matches startups with…
Three of Australia’s major banks have been prevented from collectively negotiating with Apple over the use of Apple Pay. The National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac Banking Corporation…
Fake news is still very much the subject of the news at the moment. There is a growing realisation that there is very little that can be done to stop it. Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes that ordinary…
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat is looking to go public with an IPO in March of 2017. Snap has filed its intentions secretly with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and it is expected…
Customer service in banking is hard. Take a look at any bank’s Facebook or Twitter account and complaints heavily outnumber compliments. Westpac, one of Australia’s largest banks is a good example. Every…
The rise of fake news, once only the preserve of certain types of tabloids has now become a dominant feature of social media and a subject of major concern for mainstream media. CNN has even started the…
Although we currently live in the “Information Age” what we actually generate, and most of the time fail to make meaningful use of, is data. The Australian Government’s Productivity Commission has released…
In what is Australia’s biggest data breach of medical information, more than 550,000 customers of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service had personal and medical details exposed online and leaked to an…
Apple revealed 3 new models of their MacBook Pro range Thursday on the 25th anniversary of Apple’s first notebook. The major new feature of at least two of the models, is the “Touch Bar”, a small screen…
Blame and recriminations were flying around today at the Senate committee’s inquiry into the ABS’s attempt at a “digital first”, online Australian census. Appearing before the committee, ABS still held…
