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For a tech column it might seem a little out of place but I want to have a philosophical discussion today. Discussion is probably not the correct word as a discussion would normally involve multiple people putting forward different ideas and exchange…

Watching James Bond or Mission Impossible films we have come to expect baddies in high-security campuses with the good guys trying to sneak past the security with fake fingerprints or replica eyeball signatures. It all seems a bit fanciful and while …

The modern IT and telecommunications employee speaks about the ‘cloud’ more than your early morning weatherman but what does it actually mean? When you hear this ubiquitous reference to something in the sky, how does it relate to the aver…

Imagine this. I am sitting at a café catching up on a few e-mails on my phone while enjoying my morning latte. As I pick up the glass, I forgot to read the warning that the glass may be hot so I instinctively let go of the hot glass and coffee…

In just two days we will see a significant chapter in the technology world closed. Less than two months shy of the fortieth anniversary of the introduction of VHS video recorders, Sanyo has announced that the last VHS unit in the world will roll off …

The 93.1 per cent of people in our region that use the Internet are mostly very excited about the current roll-out of the NBN (National Broadband Network). With promises of cheaper connections that are more reliable it does sound fantastic. Speed is …

Thursday 22 March 2012 is the day that a light bulb was switched on for me. As I sat at the breakfast table on that morning, my fourteen-year-old daughter joined me for our cereal and toast. She asked if I had heard the big news. Having just returned…

When it comes to personal issues, surveys show that people are extremely sensitive about their finances and their health records being exposed to the public. There was an outrage in April this year when medical files belonging to patients from a Melb…

A couple of years ago I was sitting on QF12 travelling comfortably back from Los Angeles to Sydney. I had spent some time catching up on some work and taking care of a few e-mails. After sleeping for a few hours I woke up to see the sun rising from 3…

This week we trawl back through history to 1768 when Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first automobile – a steam-powered tricycle with a top speed of 3.6 km/h and able to carry four people. He went onto construct two steam tractors for the Frenc…

Remembering back to the eighties always brings a flood of contrasting imagery. From a B-Grade actor playing his biggest role as POTUS through to an Australian Prime Minister making world headlines for wearing a terrible jacket whilst celebrating an A…

I took my wife for a romantic trip to Paris at the beginning of last year to celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary and as we walked the streets of the City of Love, my wife would look for quaint cafes to eat at and interesting shopping location…

The mention of the acronym SARS strikes fear into anyone old enough to remember back to November 2002 when there was a worldwide outbreak of the disease. There were 8,096 cases reported and 774 deaths across 37 countries as a direct result of Severe …

For my first Digitally Enhanced column it would make sense to gaze into my crystal ball and call on years of experience and analyse the current technology environment to make some bold predictions on what the world of IT will look like in the near fu…