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My issue today is about equity of access to technology. We live in a vast nation. Roughly 7.692 million square kilometres. Our population is not evenly spread across this vast nation with 66 per cent of Aussies living in our capital cities. The chall…

With a plethora of new smartphones having been released into the Australian market recently – including the iPhone 7; the Google Pixel; the Sony XZ and the ill-fated Note 7 – I thought it would be interesting to look at some of the featur…

Cloud computing is a term that is thrown around like a footy after the siren has sounded. To gain a better understanding of cloud computing, we should think of the electricity industry, in particular go back to the early days of electricity. Once it …

Modern technology should be like a motor car. You get in the car, push the start button, and drive away. You don’t typically think about the processes involved with the storage of electricity and the coils of copper turning inside the stator &n…

For those of us old enough to remember, cast your minds back to the eighties when we made our first visits to a video rental store to hire a VHS movie or even had the video store visit us in a mini-van. Being able to choose a movie rather than watch …

Whilst the region is excited about the advent of super-fast broadband, it is interesting to note what is happening behind the scenes to ensure the experience is what we expect it to be. Whilst the sound of downloading at speeds of 100Mbps is very exc…

The rise and fall of technology can happen incredibly quickly. What was the latest tech or ‘must have’ device yesterday can quickly become a footnote in history today. The latest announcement by BlackBerry is a classic example of this pro…

Here we are, days after a Federal election, and we still don’t know the result. The Australian Electoral Commission says that it could be a month before a result is known. Some seats that have candidates winning by a large margin have been decl…

One of my great frustrations when travelling on commercial aircraft is the amount of drama that is seemingly created by the mobile phones and electronic equipment on-board. The situation hit the ridiculous level a couple of years ago when I was trave…