Jamile Sabatini Marques is doing a PhD at QUT. She is from Brazil where she has held senior positions in the IT industry. As part of her study Jamile is surveying entrepreneurs in the IT sector to see how aware they are of government innovation policies. If you fit this description, then you might be […]

In my position you’ve got to know more than the average bear about the Internet, so I try to keep all my social networking applications on as open a setting as possible – it adds to my store of experience. That means the scam merchants are often hitting on me. I amused myself with this […]

The story looks like the same every time. Someone you “know” because they are a Facebook friend, or because you have exchanged emails, is in London and they’ve been robbed. You’re the only one they can turn to for a loan to tide them over so they can come home. The first time it happened […]

I couldn’t resist this post. I’ve just invested in a broadband Optus modem that can put me on the Internet just about anywhere, including in this instance Hyde Park in Sydney from where I have a good view of St Mary’s cathedral. Sitting here I feel like an intellectual knight errant with nothing to my […]

John Howard seems to at last be getting the hang of new technology. Last election he was spamming voters, with the assistance and advice of son Tim. This election he is mixing it with all the coolest of us on YouTube. One of the things with a YouTube video is that you can’t pick how […]