14 March 2015 It is now 1 month since I set out to lose some weight. My experiment? To outsource all aspect of my dietary including compliance. I have a pretty hectic lifestyle (which I love), I have a business which is growing rapidly, I attend lots of dinners and drinks events with customers and …
It has been 10 years almost to the day that I sold WebCentral to Malcolm Turnbull’s listed company FTR who then 3 years later resold it to Melbourne IT. Given we started in a garage in Morningside in the late 1980’s and upon exit the business was valued at $45m, it was both a fun …
Many Australian companies have engaged freelancers to perform back office administration on a permanent basis. As their business grows and expands, at some point there may be a need to have a more structured offshore model and bring all the distributed work-at-home freelancers under one roof. The reasons include: A need for better security Having …
We have an “Auto-buy” arrangement with some of our local phone suppliers. When a new phone or tablet comes onto the market, they just send it over and if we don’t have it in our QA labs, we’ll buy it. Deliveries to the QA test lab usually consist of small boxes of the latest mobile …
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First impressions on Samsung Gear…WOW… This is going to be huge, at least wearable technology, that is! Version 1.0 is pretty awkward and probably not realistically usable, it is the Apple Newton Message Pad 100 of wearable technology – but I can see where this is going – and it’s going to be big! It’s …
I had two meetings this morning, one which I put on my calendar and one which my Ann had entered. We have a detailed training course which all PAs go through. I forgot that there are almost 20 steps that PAs are trained of doing when setting up a meeting. I never followed them of …
I have complained about Apple’s one-phone–fits-all” strategy in previous posts. This strategy just doesn’t work in Asia (although there are now rumors of a low cost iPhone on the horizon). Samsung has proven that the demand for a range of phone options – from low cost to high end – is driving consumer choice here. …
In the emerging economies of Asia, the prepaid phone system is pretty sophisticated. It has to be; people here don’t have credit cards, many don’t have bank accounts or ATM Cards, and the logistics of trying to manage post-paid accounts would be interesting, to say the least. So the local telcos have become very creative …
The evil overlords at Wikipedia bounced our PowerUp Page… will need to work on the references…..PowerUp was on the first ISPs in Queensland and become the largest, it is part of local Internet History. This submission’s references do not adequately evidence the subject’s notability—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and the golden rule. …
I see so many start-ups that simply waste money, unintentionally (I’ve invested in them). They get $100k, or maybe a couple of million, and before they know it, the money is gone! I once told a new investor in my business that I valued every cent he invested “as if it was my own”. He …
