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Jonathan Cotton

High-tech recruitment in the age of Covid
Throw those one-dimensional resumes in the bin; Covid’s changed hiring forever… read more...

When a stranger calls: The rise of the ‘vishing’ scam
A spate of strikes shows just how effective voice-based attack vectors can be… read more...

Australia signs on with US for Five Eyes training collab
Australia will contribute to the development of its high-tech collaborative simulated training domain… read more...

Big four team up to digitise bank guarantees
Bank consortium builds blockchain platform to replace paper guarantee processes… read more...

Cleaning up the gig economy
With Australian delivery drivers dying, calls for reform get louder… read more...

You shall not pass (with those creds)
In an unsecured world, voice and text-based verification doesn’t cut the MFA mustard… read more...

Hands up who wants a microchip in their arm
Punters are surprisingly open to the ultimate in biometric identification… read more...

Western Australia needs data scientists – 3k of them
Once called ‘the sexiest job of the 21st century’, data scientists are currently a hot commodity… read more...

Pandemic brings Christmas shopping crunch
Online demand faces supply chain shortfalls… read more...

ID, meet payments: AU’s digital ID ecosystem expands
Can the private sector finally deliver a real digital ID solution… read more...

Reversing the global productivity slump
Productivity has declined, but Microsoft may have a solution… read more...

New tech being rolled out to combat Covid-19
But it’s hard to build the perfect contact tracing beast… read more...

Lucrative quarter for FAANGS
As the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic continues, revenues of the tech leaders continue to soar… read more...

Why DuckDuckGo won’t be your next search engine
It’s hot to hate the giants right now, but is regulation necessary – or even right?… read more...

The lives of others: Exploring the Internet of Behaviour
Connected data will increasingly influence our lives and our decision making… read more...

Dropbox goes 100% virtual
File sharing giant says ‘go home, stay home’ to staff… read more...

Subscription economy quietly booms under lockdown
2020 is the year of the accelerated trend… read more...

Govt scraps much-loathed tax incentive reforms
It’s a new RDTI landscape on both sides of the Tasman… read more...

Marketing analytics: A big annoying pain in the butt
Nearly half of CMOs “unable to measure marketing ROI”… read more...

Google’s billion-dollar plan to solve its news woes
But not Downunder… read more...