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 …
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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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. …
The real losers in the US Apple-Samsung decision (and it’s not Samsung) I am sure the jury in the Apple-Samsung US case followed the instructions carefully and did their job, but it reinforced to me that the patent system is broken. (Subsequent to writing this – people are questioning the 22 hours spent reviewing 109 …
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Six months ago I thought I had found it: Ink-Jet Nirvana. A land of never-ending rainbows of inexpensive colour. Ink-Jet printers have revolutionized colour printing. It didn’t take long for printer manufactures to develop a winning business model: they nearly give away the printer, but the ink cartridges cost you an arm, a leg, and …
Last week as I pushed my way through the crowded maze of computer shops of the Golden Computer Center in Sham Shui Po (Hong Kong), I love all the rows and rows of small, open-front computer shops with all their products (lot of junk) cramped onto tables. Twenty years ago, these markets where were all …
Well it’s 10 years since I last updated my personal web site (well 5 years atleast) – with Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, etc – is there really need to have your own site OR more importantly who has time to keep all this up to date. (I must be getting old because weeks now seem to …
