Interpersonal communications skills key to IT security

We’ve all seen those notices at airports, railway stations, on buses and elsewhere: “If you see something, say something.” It’s the government’s attempt to get every single Australian involved in - and personally responsible for - the nation’s security. Thankfully the threat level is very low and most of us, I suspect, have little concern and little expectation of finding anything untoward.

In search of patent trolls

The recent intellectual property suit filed against ZTE in Australia by ‘patent troll’ Vringo has brought the contentious issue of patent trolls to our shores from the US where feral trolls are such a pest that the Obama Administration is trying to get legislation through Congress that will curb their actions, but that is not going to be easy. Patent trolls are protean creatures. One man’s patent troll is another man’s legitimate licensor of intellectual property.

And the next biggest Net-enabled disruptor will be…

MOOCs: massive, open online courses. And that’s according to no lesser personage than Bob Metcalfe, widely recognised as the co-inventor of ethernet and the formulator of the prediction on networking now known as Metcalfe’s Law.

How Telstra will leverage its LTE lead

Australians’ love affair with smartphone and tablets and their insatiable appetite for content and applications have been good to Telstra. They have boosted its first mover advantage with LTE significantly, but that advantage will be magnified even further when Telstra introduces joyn.