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Silent panic button alarm app for the iPhone
So many iPhone apps are designed to enrich your life. Here’s one that could one day save it.
The Silent Bodyguard is a personal security app that sends an discreet SOS distress signal, with GPS coordinates, to pre-programmed rescuers via a panic button.
Australian entrepreneurs need to widen investor audience
A national survey, released last week by capital raising magazine Wholesale Investor, has highlighted the need for entrepreneurs to get their deals in front of a wide investor audience. The findings show that investors will evaluate 10 to 30 deals before deciding to invest in one.
Research: high income earners happy but lack employer loyalty
In February, top level recruitment site Six Figures published its 2010 Executive Career Monitor Report. The report was compiled from a survey in late 2009 (in conjunction with talent site Destination Talent) of 1,332 Australian high income earners, with the findings being released at a breakfast meeting in Melbourne on 2nd March.
Not so ‘Mini’ when it comes to advertising…
For a small car, the Mini packs a big punch: particularly when it comes to its global advertising campaigns.
Optimism grows in Oz business trading market
Online business trading site BizExchange recently published its 2009 fourth quarter findings Index for Australian Private Business Values.
Overall market sentiment surged for the second quarter running – in contrast to the lows experienced nine months previously – and has reached its highest levels since the Index survey began in 2006.
Apple blocks Japanese porn king Eugene’s road to riches
Eugene Lin’s ambition of becoming a millionaire 70 cents at a time has been thwarted by Apple’s removal of 5,000 apps deemed to contain overtly sexual content — apparently in response to user complaints — thus removing the entire Peekaboo suite.
Victorian government adopts Creative Commons as its default information licensing system
In a first move by an Australian government, the Victorian parliament has adopted Creative Commons (CC) licensing as its default licensing system for access to public sector information (PSI).
SixthSense technology combines physical and digital worlds [video]
Mistry believes that the next step in computing is blending human gestures in the physical world with that of our everday digital needs, thus bringing it, and us, closer together. At the same time this will free us from the interfacing restrictions that we currently experience.
The Woz explains how sleep deprivation led to colour displays
Major inventions and technical breakthroughs often happen by accident. Here legendary Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak explains how, while working with Steve Jobs to meet a deadline for Atari, he went four days without sleep, leading to one of his greatest technological breakthroughs.
Create a marketing campaign in 60 seconds
The complex and expensive world of professional marketing is an outsourced expertise that is mostly out of bounds to startups and SMEs. While many resources are available to the small business owner, it can also often come down to having the time to research and follow up on new ideas. This is where a novel product from Australian-based marketing company ChildsPlay Marketing can come in handy.









