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Jonathan Cotton
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AU stalls on global corruption index, NZ loses top spot
AU and NZ find themselves in troubling trend as high anti-corruption scores are replaced with decline… read more...
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Breakaway WTO countries vow to clean up e-commerce
Impatient with the WTO’s e-commerce inaction, members including AU and NZ, are negotiating a new global framework… read more...
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Is now the time for a ‘Cyber CFO’?
When financial risk is a cyber risk, should CFOs be taking greater responsibility for security?… read more...
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Australian business prepares for massive China market opportunity
It’s not without its difficulties, but the big opportunities in China are only set to get bigger… read more...
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Ethics and algorithms: Can machine learning ever be moral?
New research suggests the human touch might be the solution to the excesses of the big data deluge… read more...
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Is digital marketing in crisis?
Facebook and Google, Google and Facebook. What lies beyond the digital marketing duopoly?.. read more...
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Biometric ID tech’s growing acceptance
The consumerisation of biometrics is seeing the selfie elevated to trusted identity authenticator… read more...
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Are e-retailers too complacent about Christmas?
Judging by the buoyant mood you could be forgiven for thinking Amazon’s retail revolution has been called off. But not so fast… read more...
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Is it time for an IoT crack down?
Security vendors will always find something to make us paranoid, but for IoT, some sort of policy framework is surely the order of the day… read more...
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Below and beyond: The underground drones are coming
Drone technology is rapidly taking off – but there’s action happening closer to ground… read more...
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You have the right to remain private
Inside Australia’s ambitious consumer data standard… read more...
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Mixed reality revolution finally gets underway downunder
Australiasian VR, AR and mixed reality on the cusp of broad adoption… read more...
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Big Blue chases cloud market with US$34b Red Hat acquisition
IBM’s proposed acquisition of open source cloud software company Red Hat will create the world’s largest open source software portfolio… read more...
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Is the honeymoon over? Australian startups in decline
For the first time in five years Australia’s start-up ecosystem shows significant drops in startup activity… read more...
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AI investment shows bang for buck
Gartner finds majority of AI projects are very successful – for e-commerce… read more...
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Open office findings counter-intuitive
The science is out: why open offices don’t foster collaboration… read more...
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New world order: Is it time for Internet 2.0?
Goodbye passwords, logins and data-hungry tech giants. The net’s future might just be on a USB… read more...
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When will online voting come to Australasia?
With voter numbers dropping, postal services on the decline and booth-voting pure misery, is it time for a digital solution?.. read more...
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PayPal’s take on Aussie m-commerce
New research finds a significant gap between customer demand and mobile payment readiness… read more...
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CSIRO shoots for the moon with ambitious space program
Harnessing industry, research and the issuing of a ‘lunar challenge’… read more...