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Competitive sport still afraid of technology

With so much tech around, you'd think more would be making its way onto playing fields.
Rightsizing: the best way to tackle cloud computing

The cloud's advantages over an in-house system are not necessarily simple, or fixed.

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Andrew Dent presents Zeetings

He returned to Australia five years ago – but still bears the hallmarks of years spent in Silicon Valley.

Andrew Dent presents Zeetings to help keep audiences awake

Beverley Head 11:21 AM Andrew Dent returned to Australia five years ago – but he still bears the hallmarks of years spent in the start-up scenes of Seattle and Silicon Valley.

Cloud

Rightsizing: the best way to tackle cloud computing

Stuart Corner 9:00 PM The cloud's advantages over an in-house system are not necessarily simple, or fixed.

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Sports Tech

Competitive sport still afraid of technology

Matthew Hall 4:19 PM With so much technology around, you’d think more would be making its way onto sports grounds and playing fields.

Leadership

The best path to CEO? Myer's Richard Umbers found it

Sylvia Pennington Myer's CIO was recently elevated to the top job, but he's in a very small minority.

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Comment

Time to give tech start-ups a chance

Alan Noble Start-ups should be given the regulatory support to take risks and turn Australia into a true knowledge and software-led economy.

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Start-ups

Threat-detecting camera tech could heist-proof stores

Sylvia Pennington South Australia's start-up support initiatives give funding to system that foils armed hold-ups by locking the shop doors to suspicious people.

Components

Google challenge to iPhone opens modular door for Toshiba

Pavel Alpeyev and Takashi Amano Google's key ally in its challenge to the smartphone status quo is a company that Apple's iPhone drove out of the market.

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Cloud

Bulletproof results reveal rush to public cloud services

Stuart Corner As an ASX listed company, Bulletproof offers one of the few insights into the financials of the expanding Australian cloud computing market.

Expertise

Dollhouse to encourage more girls into engineering

Stathi Paxinos Mechanical engineer Alice Brooks has come up with a way to put learning about building and electronics into a context most six-year-old girls will appreciate.

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'Truly awful': Centrelink, Medicare apps slammed

Noel Towell Apps are so bad they are getting claimants kicked off benefits, users have complained.

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Mobile

Google confirms plans for mobile internet service in US

Brian X. Chen It’s official: Google wants to offer a wireless service, but not like just any other phone carrier.

Procurement

Outsourcers on notice as Labor takes back IT reins

Sylvia Pennington The technology industry can expect less talk of outsourcing and a greater focus on local jobs and innovation as the Labor party takes the reins in Queensland.

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Investors keeping an eye on cornea-based biometric banking

Beverley Head Sydney optometrist Stephen Mason should know soon if his cornea-based biometric technology can be successfully commercialised.

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Women in tech

Ellen Pao case puts Silicon Valley boys' club on trial

Josie Ensor Reddit CEO is suing former employer, an influential venture capital firm, for US$16 million in back pay and future earnings.

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Government moves to avoid data retention bill debate

Andrew Colley The federal government has moved quickly to accept all the recommendations of a parliamentary committee, rendering parliamentary debate redudant.

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Expertise

Brave, creative, over 60: age only a number when it comes to tech

Sylvia Pennington Some mature ICT professionals are refusing to let age hold them back or stand in the way of their start-up dreams.

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Iran behind cyberattack of Las Vegas gambling juggernaut, US says

Tony Capaccio The top US intelligence official confirmed for the first time that Iran was behind a cyber attack against the Las Vegas Sands Corp. last year.