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CSIRO looks into the crystal ball

Last week, to remarkably little fanfare, the CSIRO released a fascinating little report looking at Australia’s future. The report is called Australia 2030: Navigating our uncertain future. It is...

Amaysim race a white knuckle ride

Amaysim was launched in 2010 as an Australian MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). Like all MVNOs, it does not have its own network, but resells capacity from one of...

Landing on the SE Asia launch pad

Could it possibly get any better? The home for the fifth and final ‘Landing Pad’ under the Turnbull Government’s still nascent National Science and Innovation Agenda is a five...

NetComm surges on new M2M boom

ASX-listed NetComm Wireless has a come a long way since it was founded in Sydney in 1982 to manufacture modems. It is now a technology leader in intelligent communications...

StartupAus funding is ridiculous

For a very short while, the Innovation Department’s funding of lobbyist StartupAus was the dumbest thing to happen during the election campaign last week that was related to the tech...

An expert guide to campaign-speak

On Friday at a campaign event in Tasmania the Prime Minister, eventually, got around to talking about the AFP action over the leaks from NBN Co. InnovationAus.com isn’t primarily...

Pressure mounts on NBN’s Morrow

The re-design of the National Broadband Network carried out by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during his time as communications minister is now at the front and centre of this...

Turnbull: Give that man an onion

The sight of Malcolm Turnbull rabbiting on at a media doorstop as if he had Tony Abbott’s hand up his back was a remarkable thing to behold. He should...

Epic overreach: NBN police raids

The police raids on the office and homes of a Labor parliamentarian and staffer last night are unprecedented and outrageous. This is not how we do business in Australia....

Google Schmoogle: Telstra takes aim

‘Google Schmoogle’ was a phrase famously coined by former Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo as he batted away concerns that the search engine giant, back in 2005 as a...

Google Schmoogle: Telstra takes aim

‘Google Schmoogle’ was a phrase famously coined by former Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo as he batted away concerns that the search engine giant, back in 2005 as a...

Matt Barrie may run in Wentworth

High-profile tech entrepreneur and Freelancer.com chief executive Matt Barrie is considering a run at Federal Parliament and has targeted Malcolm Turnbull’s Wentworth electorate as his seat of choice. It...

Trade in services deal still distant

Companies looking to sell innovative services on the world stage will remain heavily reliant on bilateral trade deals for the foreseeable future with international agreements on trade in services...

Startups must get privacy in order

Australia’s privacy czar has emerged from a near death experience imposed by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott to launch Privacy Awareness Week and warn tech startups of coming scrutiny,...