Blockchain has been one of the biggest buzzwords at Sibos 2018. It’s being embraced as a way for financial institutions to have more efficient systems, removing the need to reconcile multiple disparate databases and enabling real-time accounting. But there’s still scepticism over blockchain-based virtual currencies. UBS recently claimed that Bitcoin fails to meet the basic […]
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I interviewed Ethereum founder Joe Lubin at SIBOS 2018 in Sydney, where he discussed crypto asset markets and whether cryptocurrencies can be made to work fairly and independently.
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Demand is growing for healthier workplaces as increased evidence links sedentary work to poor health effects. Co-working spaces are among those leading the trend for healthier office design. Sedentary behaviours are a known risk factor for cancer, cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes and early death. The more hours we sit down, the worse the effects. […]
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Audiobooks have been described as a “rising star” of the publishing industry. They’re seeing vast growth year-on-year, as people use mobiles and eBook readers to access them. There are many ways to create an audiobook. Text-to-speech technology converts eBooks to audiobooks on the fly, often with high quality, human-like speech. Or you can record yourself […]
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First State Auctions holds jewellery and watch auctions across Australia and New Zealand. We filmed at a couple of different auctions in Sydney, and interviewed winning bidders about their experiences.
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SkedGo provides personalised trip planning and Mobility-as-a-Service technology, for start-ups, corporations and governments. It added wheelchair accessibility features for the Rio Olympics, and won the NSW Smart Cities Accessibility Challenge.
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Delegates and organisers of Australia’s first RegTech conference, held in Sydney 3-4 May 2018, discuss the key learnings and their vision for the industry.
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Have you got a brilliant idea for a book? One of the best, quickest and easiest ways to publish these days is to DIY it. Self-publishing is nothing new – authors including Jane Austen, Martin Luther, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf have all done it – but the internet makes it a lot easier. Self-publishing […]
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This video was created for a Hitachi webinar on Australia’s Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme under the Privacy Act. You can view the video here on Brighttalk.
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Back in 2007 I wrote about how DRM – digital rights management – was nothing but a pirate’s dream: “Digital rights management is great news for video pirates, online and offline. Nothing is more likely to drive people to Bittorrent sites or back alleyways than the notion that a movie they legally pay for is […]
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