Software, AI and IT insights
Writing from PicNet's engineers on AI, software, cloud and the systems Australian organisations run on.
Will Steve Jobs' final vendetta haunt Google? is Android the "grand theft" of the iPhone?
Steve Jobs: I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs told Isaacson. "I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen…
Productivity advances over the next 20 years will be determined largely by how widely and rapidly we use IT to help existing industries adapt.
October 21, 2011 - Publisher Len Rust Modern technologies and applications, particularly of information and communication, are a major driver today not just of improved quality of life but also of economic growth. The…
Workers 'waste $109bn'
Mark Hawthorne (SMH) October 17, 2011 A third of Australian employees plan to quit in the next year, more than half say poor management has the biggest impact on their productivity, and 18 per cent of the average…
Executive remuneration is up, shareholder returns are abysmal and productivity has stalled. There is something wrong with that productivity picture!
A great article was produced in the AFR on 1/10/11 about executive remuneration and productivity, better say, the discrepancy on how the increase of executive remuneration is reflected in a decline in productivity!!!…
The Big Five IT trends of the next half decade
This is a great article by Dion Hinchcliffe from ZDNET who explain how these new technologies will challenge CIO's and their quest to improve productivity in corporations. Summary: In today's ever more…
A simple example of how you can improve productivity. Watch a YouTube video in half of its time.
Want to increase your productivity? When you want to watch a YouTube video of a presentation or someone talking for a long time, just increase its speed with this plug in: YouTube HTML5 Video Player…