Technology
Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of technology (Pt 2)
He coughed, spluttered, back-pedalled and delivered amazing excuses: Credit this, debit that, liability something else, below the EBIT line over there, management fees somewhere else, intercompany loans and so on.
I could see George starting to waver so I asked a very simple question to by-pass the jargon and drivel and get us back to the point of the discussion:
A formal response to our rabble rousing from Senator Carr’s office
Following our recent series of articles on innovation in Australia (our Australia Day series), we received the following note from the Office of Senator Kim Carr, Australia’s Innovation Minister. We were expecting a dressing down. Here’s what we got instead.
Hacks and geeks ponder media’s ‘Humpty Dumpty’ moment at Media 2010
How is the media handling the digital ecosphere? Matthew da Silva discussed the view from the wall with key players in attendance at last month’s Media 2010 conference, a Sydney ideas forum sponsored by Fairfax Digital.
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.
Microsoft’s Augmented Reality guru draws gasps from the TED2010 crowd
Aguera y Arcas didn’t disappoint with this overview of how he and his team are incorporating augmented reality into Photosynth and Bing Maps. Check out the gasp he draws from the audience when he zooms from an aerial view of Seattle to photo-realistic street view.
iPhone app to help you avoid banana skins and other slapstick footpath nasties
The myriad apps making their way on to the App store range from functional to preposterous.
However, here’s one that at first appears a bit of a gimmick, but could actually prove quite useful. The app displays a transparent screen of what’s in front of you while you carry on working in the application of your choice. For example, writing a text message or tweet.
I’m no techie, but I want in! Lessons from the National Growth Summit.
If there’s a mistake an SME can make online, I’ve made it in the last five years. My ecommerce site was hacked for reasons that will soon become apparent. My blog disappeared on the very same day and I avoided joining Twitter until last Friday because, “bloody hell — I already have enough to do!”
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).
Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of technology.
Are your technology suppliers and support providers advising you according to your best interests, or theirs?
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.
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