I was delivering a seminar recently, and sitting in the front row was a well-dressed IT professional looking very smart—apart from the embroidery on his shirt—it said “Reactive Technology.” I personally thought this was a terr…
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Media release Phil Stack to play at Lifeline fundraising dinner in Dubbo Lifeline fundraising dinner to be held in Dubbo on 12 July will feature Phil Stack in a jazz duo. The support for the Lifeline fundraiser is quickly growing. After …
- May
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- 2019
On 9 April 2013, then Federal opposition leader and eventual Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, made a broad statement referencing the NBN. “[We] are absolutely confident that 25 megs is going to be enough, more than enough, for the average household…
- May
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Media release Alan Jones AO to speak at Lifeline fundraising dinner in Dubbo Lifeline fundraising dinner to be held in Dubbo on 12 July will feature Alan Jones as guest speaker. Former Member for Dubbo, John Mason, and former Mayor of Dubbo, M…
- May
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- 2019
I have seen a total of approximately one minute of comedian Rick Mercer’s TV show and it was thirteen years ago – but that video clip has stuck with me since then. Wind the clock back to 2006. The world was yet to see the iPhone. 4G was s…
- May
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- 2019
Media release Sarah Nolet announced as the first diga.tech speaker diga.tech today announced Sarah Nolet as the first speaker. Today at Aquawest, a business known for introducing technology into the agricultural sector, the Dubbo Chamber of Co…
- May
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- 2019
I recently wrote a poem called ‘Tomorrow’s Smartphone User’ and it focused on the fact that a modern smartphone has so many wonderful features that it may be easy for a smartphone user of the future to forget that it is still capabl…
- May
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Media release diga.tech announce first speaker for the one-day expo diga.tech, powered by the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce, is announcing the first of six speakers on Friday 17 May at 10am from Aquawest, 41 Douglas Mawson Rd., Dubbo. At th…
- May
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Media release diga.tech hold Exhibitor Information Evening diga.tech, powered by the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce, is holding an Information Evening for interested exhibitors at the Milestone Hotel on Wednesday 22 May at 5pm. At the inaugu…
- May
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In my formative years, I learned that a true test of character is how someone behaves when no one is watching them. It would appear that lesson was not widely distributed because the latest data on dashcams is quite interesting. More on that in minut…
- May
- 10
- 2019
Well I have good news and bad news. In the lead-up to the 2007 Federal Election, we heard the vision to commence construction of a super-fast National Broadband Network (NBN) as Australia was lagging behind the rest of the world in Internet connectiv…
- May
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- 2019
When kids compete in their first running race, every parent gives their children advice. One nugget that is inevitably handed out is “Don’t look behind you—just keep running.” It is with good reason that this advice is often g…
- May
- 01
- 2019
Now we tend to think of our big four banks as, well, big. CBA; Westpac; ANZ and the NAB sit at numbers one; three; five and six respectively on our ASX200 by market capitalisation. And then there is Apple. To give you some idea of size, their market …
- Apr
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One of the greatest challenges for lawmakers across the world is keeping up with changes in technology. Nowhere in the job description of a tech innovator does it mention that they should hold back on new ideas until legislation can be put in place. …
- Apr
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Time for me to do my best impression of Adam Savage. I want to bust a few myths today. There seems to be so much discussion around the technology associated with electric cars at the moment – and I struggle to find data and facts in amongst the…
- Apr
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- 2019
One of my greatest disappointments in society is a syndrome I call LOMS. Look Over My Shoulder. Some people struggle with someone else, that they see when they look ‘over their shoulder’, gaining some perceived advantage or accessing some…
- Apr
- 05
- 2019
Marketing is not A thing you do in business. Marketing is not a job for the wacky, zany people in marketing who spell their name with a double i. Most companies think that marketing is their advertising, Web site, and, with a bit of a stretch, maybe …
- Apr
- 01
- 2019
Have you ever had that feeling of extreme excitement when you have some wonderful news to tell everyone – but it just doesn’t seem to register above zero on the excitement scale for anyone else? I suspect that Samsung are feeling that way…
- Mar
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How are those Russian election conspiracy theories going? First, in the middle of a NSW State election, the Electoral Commission computers go down which almost brought pre-polling to a shuddering halt. This computer network has some additional comple…
- Mar
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- 2019