Until recently the cottage industry of computer repairers was thriving, having been born with the massive take up of computers by homes and …
Until recently the cottage industry of computer repairers was thriving, having been born with the massive take up of computers by homes and …
The IT industry loves buzzwords and the phrase coming into fashion is “big data”. Forget “social media” or “cloud computing”, much of what y…
In the early 1990s the term “vapourware” appeared, it was born out of big software vendors announcing mythical products with a whole new…
Yesterday, I was fortunate to be invited by StartupSmart blogger Adam Franklin to his Social Media Down Under event. I’m normally reluc…
One of the curses of modern business is the buzzword, a perfectly good word that is ruined by constant use. The IT industry is particular…
Two hundred years ago, the idea of the equivalent power of hundreds of horses in a single machine was unthinkable; then the steam engine arr…
After its successful float on Friday, social media giant Facebook’s stock is now 18% down on the IPO price and there are claims some investo…
“Plastics” was the career advice to uni students in the 1967 movie The Graduate. Today the same advice to a smart young entrepreneur wou…
Just over 13 years a group of Silicon Valley technologists wrote The Cluetrain Manifesto, detailing what they saw as being the new rules of …
One of the biggest dangers to businesses is the belief that something is “free”. As we all know, there is no such thing as a free lun…
At a breakfast last week a business owner told me about his struggle to counter negative reviews about his B&B on TripAdvisor. Th…
“She listed her job on LinkedIn as my ghostwriter,” reflected the journalist about his publishing business’ Gen-Y staff member. The journ…
