The IT industry loves buzzwords and the phrase coming into fashion is “big data”. Forget “social media” or “cloud computing”, much of what y…
The IT industry loves buzzwords and the phrase coming into fashion is “big data”. Forget “social media” or “cloud computing”, much of what y…
In the early 1990s the term “vapourware” appeared, it was born out of big software vendors announcing mythical products with a whole new…
Yesterday, I was fortunate to be invited by StartupSmart blogger Adam Franklin to his Social Media Down Under event. I’m normally reluc…
One of the curses of modern business is the buzzword, a perfectly good word that is ruined by constant use. The IT industry is particular…
When IPv6 launched today at 10am (AEST), you probably noticed no change to your internet service. That’s as it should be. In fact, you…
Two hundred years ago, the idea of the equivalent power of hundreds of horses in a single machine was unthinkable; then the steam engine arr…
After its successful float on Friday, social media giant Facebook’s stock is now 18% down on the IPO price and there are claims some investo…
“Plastics” was the career advice to uni students in the 1967 movie The Graduate. Today the same advice to a smart young entrepreneur wou…
Just over 13 years a group of Silicon Valley technologists wrote The Cluetrain Manifesto, detailing what they saw as being the new rules of …
One of the biggest dangers to businesses is the belief that something is “free”. As we all know, there is no such thing as a free lun…
Google is likely to launch a High Court challenge to a Federal Court finding that it engaged in false and misleading advertising. Google …
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is today one of the world’s biggest philanthropists having built up his business from an obscure traffic manage…
