Created: 04/06/2010 in Agnostech | Comments (4)
Earlier this week Apple CEO Steve Jobs spoke at the D8 conference in California. One of the things he said that really resonated with me was his analogy of PC’s and trucks (extract from CNET):
"When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farms. Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular… PCs are going...
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- Mobility,
- Innovation
Created: 26/05/2010 in Gadget Mad | Comments (0)
Comparing BlackBerry® smartphones to iPhones has become far easier, mainly because BlackBerry smartphones are a personal device used for more than just delivering email in a corporate world.
I’ve talked before about the joy of only having one phone for both work and personal life. It’s simple and it’s neat. The advantage then goes beyond the requirement of keeping a camera or GPS with you with our mobiles including these features.
I’ve been playing with the new BlackBerry® Pearl™...
Created: 13/05/2010 in Healthcare | Comments (0)
The Prime Minister recently announced the agreement reached with seven of the eight states and territories yesterday as historic, and representing “the most significant reform to Australia’s health and hospitals system since the introduction of Medicare”.
Under the National Health and Hospitals Network Agreement the Commonwealth will:
Become the majority funder of public hospitals increasing its share of funding to 60 percent from 1 July next year;
Have full policy and funding responsibility...
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- Healthcare
Created: 24/05/2010 in People Planet Profit | Comments (0)
Copenhagen’s failure, the deferral of the ETS until 2013 and the global slow down all mean that Carbon pricing is dead, at least until 2013 and beyond. It’s time to forget about energy productivity and focus on selling more stuff to our customers.
Really?
Houston, we have major problems developing.
The absence of political agreement simply means that our politicians are not prioritising fixing the problems in both energy supply and the environment. CISRO’s recent megatrends...
Created: 13/07/2010 in Re-thinking Innovation | Comments (0)
A couple of weeks ago we had seven families, about 30 people, over for Sunday brunch. It was a chaotic but collaborative effort, with kids and adults circulating around a large dining table with different contributions from each family. Somehow it all just came together and everyone agreed that brunch was a great idea, and that many hands do make light work. The threat of 30 people descending upon our home sent my husband and I into a short, but energetic, cleaning frenzy. This experience got me...
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- Innovation