The term ‘unbanked’ conjures all sorts of negative images, but the countless millions of ‘unbanked’ people in the Asia-Pacific region represent a tremendous opportunity for tech companies. More specifically,...
There are few industries that have been turned inside out by technology in quite the same way as the telecommunications sector. Telstra Chief Technology Officer Vish Nandlall has watched...
The merger of telcos M2 and Vocus comes as no surprise. It is the latest of many mergers and acquisitions in Australian telecommunications, and makes perfect sense in the...
Telstra board member Steve Vamos has a theory about automation and the rise of technology. The more technology prevails across our workplace and society, he says, the more the...
Steve Vamos, the former Microsoft Australia managing director and current Telstra board member, tells a story about Bill Gates’ ability to see things that many of us can’t. Many...
I wish it were otherwise, but it is impossible to cover the innovation sector in Australia without occasionally writing about the National Broadband Network. The notion of a broadband...
A Western Australian security firm took the top honours at the prestigious Telstra Business Awards in Sydney last night, at an event crowded with tech innovation and entrepreneurial smarts....
Australia is facing a skills shortage in the key field of data analytics, amid concerns from incoming CSIRO chief David Thodey that the nation’s education system does not make...
Incoming CSIRO chairman and former Telstra chief executive David Thodey has called for a national policy framework and agenda for the technology sector that encompasses the federal and state...
Telstra has opened a new R&D facility in Melbourne, and unveiled a joint venture with US transformation specialist Pivotal to build cloud software in Sydney. Australia’s largest telco made...