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Augmented reality served on a golden Plattar
News Corp Australia has made its first ever seed investment and it’s in a technology firm that is bringing augmented reality and customer engagement to life… read more...
Horizon Power seeks further BI savings from IoT
Installing a new business analytics platform that business users could drive themselves paid for itself in a year – letting Horizon Power reduce headcount and expenses… read more...
Disruption means giving consumers what they want
Consumers are a demanding bunch – and it’s forcing established enterprises to disrupt their modus operandi, and on occasion to take a hefty financial stake in the disruptors… read more...
Where did you buy your software?
The proliferation of software and apps has created its own need for farmers’ markets in cyber space, and they are hot property right now… read more...
Data’s force awakens
Walt Disney’s Australian marketing team had just three and a half minutes of footage to leverage ahead of the Star Wars Force Awakens launch; it plugged the gap with data… read more...
Digital technologies fulfil supply chain potential
Technical limitations have curbed supply chain ROI but the use of new digital technologies can dramatically improve supply chain performance… read more...
Saturation, concentration and old fashioned ennui
Reports suggest that demand for tablet computers and smartphones has gone off the boil as the mobile market approaches saturation and consumers fail to fall for fads… read more...
Cloud services the answer to IoT security
Half of all IoT implementations will use cloud security services of some description by 2020, but the market is currently immature… read more...
Companies ‘desperate’ for technology leadership
But tech-savvy millennials need not apply… read more...
Google runs insight platform on Amazon cloud
The fact that Google has bought Interactive Intelligence’s customer engagement solution, which runs on Amazon’s cloud, signals the growing IT spending power of business units… read more...
Machine learning and AI for more secure banking
Turning data into real-time decisions to fight financial fraud… read more...
Australia unveils $230M cyber security strategy
The Federal Government has unveiled its cyber security strategy which features 33 new initiatives at a cost of $230 million over the next four years… read more...
SAP establishes Canberra-based (and -centric) private cloud
Onshore deployment of cloud services for Australian public sector aimed at solving data residency dilemma… read more...
The future calls for 2degrees
Amid speculation that Australian telco Vocus will soon acquire New Zealand’s 2degrees, telecoms analyst Paul Budde considers why 2degrees remains unprofitable and what its options are from here… read more...
The problem with projects: not fit to deliver value
What do IT projects and fitness regimes have in common? Owen McCall exercises his theory of the business value creation process… read more...
Long journey looms for cloud in the regions
When IDC quizzed 200 mid-tier organisations in Australia it found that only about 15 per cent were truly optimised for cloud – and few of them are in regional areas… read more...
Is it time to turn the tables on cyber-crime?
Large enterprises could benefit from playing cyber criminals at their own game – but there are major risks for smaller organisations attempting any form of cyber vigilantism… read more...
WiseTech lists as latest tech unicorn
The successful float of Sydney based logistics software company, WiseTech Global, this week signals continued investor appetite for local tech stocks… read more...
Competition watchdog strains Nbn leash
The $1.6 billion deal between Nbn Co and Telstra, intended to speed the rollout of the national broadband network has raised concerns from the competition watchdog… read more...
A fraction too much friction
Anyone who has ever stood in a department store queue knows that stripping friction out of the retail process helps the consumer – but it turns out it also helps the retailer… read more...



























