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Jonathan Cotton
Is CRM the largest software market in the world?
According to Gartner it is, but it’s more about the rise of martech and CX than core CRM rollouts… read more...
Youth in revolt: Google employees protest Pentagon drone work
Brave stand or naive youth grandstanding? 3,000 Google employees say ‘no’ to military drone tech… read more...
IoT cleans up Sydney Fish Market (among other things)
Clever tech is changing the way Australasia catches, monitors and markets its seafood… read more...
‘Fitbit for machines’ receives $4.8 million in funding
Movus has secured almost $5 million in Series A funding for its sensor-equipped, machine-learning tech… read more...
iPod laws in a smartphone world: Will we ever get copyright right?
Innovation-unfriendly laws prevail as A/NZ lawmakers struggle to keep pace with technology… read more...
New Canberra Azure regions target high-security and govt data
The MS megalith continues to spread its high-specced tentacles across Australia and the globe… read more...
In the realm of the sensors: Oil and gas industry gears up for transformation
Data is the new Texas-tea as a conservative industry wakes up to the value of IoT… read more...
B2B fintech: The $216 trillion opportunity
In the latest from our ‘whoa-that’s-a-big-number’ dept, Juniper predicts boom times in burgeoning B2B payment industry… read more...
Where’s the beef (from)? China to trace Aussie beef to the plate
Australian cattle farmers may have a new inroad into the Chinese market as a new platform launches promising high tech tracking of Aussie beef from farm to chopstick… read more...
Facebook and the age of data enlightenment
With #DeleteFacebook trending, the creepiness of the social giant’s data-enabled reach is beginning to hit home… read more...
Telstra Ventures invests in remote drone tech
Operating drones over the internet? Yes please. Cape brings remote control drone tech downunder… read more...
Salesforce buys Mulesoft for US$6.5 billion
The CRM giant pays top dollar for the integration specialist in its bid to tempt new customers… read more...
Microsoft dominates Gartner’s BI & Analytics list
MS continues to outperform BI peers with slick product, great iteration and an attractive price point… read more...
MYOB frees the data with AI-powered advisory dashboard
As accountants and bookkeepers wade deeper into advisor territory, MYOB looks to advise the advisors with free data crunching tool… read more...
Space downunder the final frontier
The Southern skies are set to be busy as governments open space for business… read more...
Former DTO head calls for govt independence from big vendor influence
Former DTO boss Paul Shetler has told a Senate inquiry that the government needs to overhaul its procurement process… read more...
Report: ERP implementations grow more popular, expensive and problematic
A new report finds that while ERP implementation numbers have surged since last year, customer expectations around costs, time and the overall human impact are way off… read more...
Reengineering tech: A new approach to IT delivery
Deloitte offers big thinking for beleaguered CIOs looking to influence but feeling the weight of a raft of new responsibilities… read more...
Mac attack: Malware targeting Macintosh computers soars 270 percent
Apple users aren’t looking so smug as almost undetectable malware threats to Macs go through the roof… read more...
CFOs: Your company’s newest data specialist? Or back room bean counter?
It’s supposed to be a heady new high-tech world for CFOs, industry’s most transformed role. So where’s the tech?… read more...
