Chinese leader Xi Jinping has stepped up his rhetoric on the country’s digital and innovation future, setting out a clear timetable for the world’s most populous nation to seize...
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More than half of Australia’s mid-size companies don’t believe they are evolving as quickly as they should, and 40 per cent admit they have failed to bring a new...
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NBN chairman Ziggy Switkowski’s entry, in the middle of an election campaign, into the growing furor around the company’s decision to call in the Australian Federal Police to investigate...
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Proving that lightning does strike twice, Telstra has again lost a technology lead over an allegedly fudged CV. A report in The Australian newspaper on Friday noted that Telstra chief technology...
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It is a question that is doing the rounds. “Are we in a fin-tech bubble, I think we are.” At least that was the message from among a phalanx of...
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It’s hard to know what to make of the latest tech industry lobby group to be set up – Tech Sydney – but the fact that the group will...
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We know Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition has a clue about nurturing the innovation sector, but so far in this election Labor seems oblivious to the nation building potential of startups...
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Australia may never face the existential challenges of Israel, demand national service of its youth, or have a Chief Scientist with $500 million a year to blow on startups...
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Last week, to remarkably little fanfare, the CSIRO released a fascinating little report looking at Australia’s future. The report is called Australia 2030: Navigating our uncertain future. It is...
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Amaysim was launched in 2010 as an Australian MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). Like all MVNOs, it does not have its own network, but resells capacity from one of...
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Digital investigation software from Nuix has a habit of turning up in the guts of many of the most juicy investigations of modern times and that gumshoe trail is...
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The Victorian Government has released a new ICT strategy, the first comprehensive statement on information technology since the Andrews Labor government was elected in November 2014. The new strategy...
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Legendary US entrepreneur Kay Koplovitz describes the 2016 presidential primaries’ season in the US as “very disheartening, very dispiriting,” and the “craziest election cycle I have ever seen.” “It’s...
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The war over who has the best policies to support innovation has yet to be fought tooth and claw by either side in this marathon election campaign, although Labor...