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iPhone app turns your voice into a complete band of instruments

The myriad uses and apps for the iPhone boggles the mind. Among the latest is Voice Band, which converts the user’s singing voice into individual instruments, laid down one on top of the other, to create a complete track. In this example, the performer creates his ...

LinkedIn helps Irish startup raise over $250,000 in 8 days

Limerick-based software startup Goshido recently completed its first round of private fundraising in only eight days. What is more impressive is that it accomplished this feat solely via the social media networking site LinkedIn. Investors were offered 10 slots valued at €25,000 each and representing two ...

How to supercharge employees: Just ask them to buy the company, like Bam Creative did

Late last year, Miles Burke, the founder of Perth-based Bam Creative, engineered a coup d’état within his own business. He invited all the company’s employees to become shareholders. Bam started the new year with everyone buzzing around the office, genuinely working for the collective good ...

Debate rages at Mumbrella/Anthill Online Marketing by Design in Sydney last night — #mumhill feed

There were plenty of great insights and conversations about marketing and social media shared at last night’s Online Marketing By Design event held at the Shelbourne Hotel in Sydney, co-hosted by Mumbrella and Anthill Magazine. We videoed proceedings and will be posting the best bits on ...

Website of the Week: The Loop helps creative people sell themselves

Creative industries have changed dramatically over the past decade, but unfortunately the options for creative professionals to showcase their talent to peers and prospective employers hasn’t. Until now. When it comes to recruiting creative talent, most employers still rely on word of mouth rather than running ...

Q&A: Renai LeMay on going solo and launching a news service

Some weeks ago, Sydney-based tech reporter Renai LeMay tweeted his plans to leave ZDNet Australia. He then told us, on the day after Australia Day, that he had launched Delimiter, a technology news wire service in direct competition with the AAP. A week on from ...

NICTA spin-off Audinate secures $4 million funding

Digital media networking solutions company Audinate (a NICTA spin-out company since 2006) has secured an additional $4 million funding round, which was led by its existing investors Starfish Ventures and Innovation Capital. Audinate produces TCP/IP-based Dante™ networking technology that provides high performance media transport. The technology ...

Can Australia really claim to be a nation of innovators?

This article is the second in our Australia Day series. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be taking a close look at Commercialisation Australia, the proposed R&D tax incentive reforms and how these reforms match (or conflict) with the political language used to promote them. ...

TechCrunch gets hacked. How the hunter became the hunted.

It’s not often that today’s technology media inspires thoughts of William Shakespeare. After all, the great English playwright is synonymous with eloquence, nuance, wry wit and pathos — a far cry from the tech media’s breathless obsession with Twitter, Facebook and all products beginning with ...

Of course Apple’s iPad isn’t what it was hyped up to be

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I’m sure that’s going through a few minds in Cupertino and other Apple offices around the world today. The brand that normally can do no wrong is now feeling the unfamiliar ...