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Expanz on assembling .NET

Matt Clarke was working for a large financial services company which had decided to take development of a new application in-house when he first met Radek Cerny, the software engineer who would become the other half of the founding team behind Australian start-up expanz.

February 2nd, 2010 in Expanz by Renai LeMay Comment

Sun shining on Ajnaware

Graham Dawson talks about the future of iPhone app development and augmented reality.

December 7th, 2009 in iPhone by Colin Ho Comment

Invisible Particls to reappear

Web 2.0 start-ups never die, they just go into stealth mode.

December 4th, 2009 in Start-up by Brad Howarth Comment

G'Day USA: Aussie start-ups head to America

The G'Day USA: Australia Week campaign today announced the finalists for the Innovation Shoot Out event, which will see eight Australian technology start-ups travel to San Francisco in January 2010 to demonstrate the commercial viability of their products in the US.

December 2nd, 2009 in Technology by Jacquelyn Holt 1 Comment

2009 funding drought rolls on

For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.

November 16th, 2009 in Venture Capital by Brad Howarth 2 Comments

Has Particls disintegrated?

Brisbane-born start-up Particls promised a better way of organising information from the web. Now, however, it appears to have given up the battle, with both the Particls website and that of its parent company Faraday Media disappearing from the web.

November 9th, 2009 in Apml by Brad Howarth 8 Comments

The key Topik is always money

One of the big problems of the internet is that is practically impossible to keep up-to-date on preferred topics. You can limit your sources, but this can mean missing a lot of valuable data.

November 6th, 2009 in Search by Brad Howarth Comment

When keeping it real isn't enough

Some of the 500,000 visitors expected to walk through the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition on the Sydney coastline this November can be excused for saying they are seeing things that aren't really there.

October 29th, 2009 in Android by Brad Howarth Comment

Time for start-up investment is now

Eighteen months after the Federal Government severed an important lifeline for innovative Australian start-ups, a new $196 million program has been announced to help fill the Australian funding void. But will it really help?

October 27th, 2009 in Commercial Ready by Brad Howarth 5 Comments

Adobe snaps up Business Catalyst

Adobe's push into web-based services has delivered a windfall for Australian entrepreneur Bardia Housman, who quietly sold his company Business Catalyst to the US software maker at the start of September.

October 6th, 2009 in Adobe by Brad Howarth 1 Comment

Brad Howarth

Brad Howarth

Brad became interested in the Australian start-up technology industry back in the 1990s, and since then has written extensively about technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship within these shores.

In March 2003 he even had a book published on the subject, called Innovation and Emerging Markets - Where the Next Bulls Will Run. With this experience, coupled with a knowledge of venture investing, marketing, and export development, Brad is keen to report on the highs and lows of Australian-born tech start-ups as they boot-strap their way forward.

ZDNet Australia Live

A user from North sydney measured 2209kbps @ Broadband Speedtest.

3 minutes ago, Click here to find out how fast your internet speed is.

'Extremely severe' flaw in Opera web browser - ZDNet - http://bit.ly/9AIVGk

Sony announces two 3D soundbars, new 3D home theater system - ZDNet (blog): PhysOrg.comSony announces two 3D http://url4.eu/3BYBt

Facebook site flaw exposes live chat sessions, user data | ZDNet http://bit.ly/bcD8or

PIN Payments Blog: Facebook Site Flaw Exposes User Data: Ryan Naraine and Dancho Danche report for ZDNet that Fa... http://twurl.nl/vfmcw2

Smartbooks have been delayed by Flash issues, says ARM - ZDNet UK http://bit.ly/cly0XC

RT @Lentejitas Facebook flaw exposes chat sessions & data http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/facebook-site-flaw-expose... http://foook.com

#iPad jailbroken with Spirit http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=6825

RT @ZDNet: RT @ServicesatXerox @ZDNet Looking good! Love the redesign!

Are Ubuntu users covered by H.264 license? It depends | ZDNet http://ht.ly/1Hnnl

@JeffArbaugh Part of redesign growing pains, unfortunately. Engineers are working on it!

RT @alexhoenig If you get the chance, check out the new look & feel of @ZDNet! http://www.zdnet.com

Gallery: HP revamps its notebook lineup: ZDNet
The Macbook-like Envy 14 sports a 14.5-inch diagonal HD Radiance di... http://bit.ly/d94zHN

TUCON and SAPPHIRE: a tale of two conferernces http://goo.gl/fb/e7Vjg News - ZDNet.com #tibcosoftwareinc #flashmemory

Google's search results update looks a bit Bing-ish http://goo.gl/fb/3yjfW News - ZDNet.com

iPad #3G hacked to work on T-Mobile, send #SMS http://goo.gl/fb/iQQ3v News - ZDNet.com #appleipad #tmobile

#BART and @foursquare featured on ZDNet "How mass transit integrates with Foursquare" http://bit.ly/ctoGau

RT @GeekLoop - ZDNet: IBM and NetSuite connect with Cast Iron http://bit.ly/dyMuEu #tech #news

Facebook flaw exposes chat sessions & data http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/facebook-site-flaw-exposes-live-chat-sessions-user-data/6358

@JasonOGrady http://zd.net/cis05w doesn't seem to work. Browser thinks it's m.www.zdnet.com/...

MS Spindex explained (has 'Microsoft' ever Twitter trended?) - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/microsoft-unveilshttp://goo.gl/fb/7Ng7V

@Anonymous It is 'Netspace', the local Australian ISP, not 'Netscape' the web browser.

3 hours ago by sydney_greener on Industry laments loss of Pipe Networks

Henry suggests GPS for street tax - Hardware - News http://bit.ly/9y5WS3

Adobe gives employees free android phones http://bit.ly/btzUbN

Victoria's myki claims $80m this year - Hardware - News http://bit.ly/9e94J7 _ good money after bad?

Westpac hired 304 tech staff: Westpac today revealed it had hired 304 additional technology staff over the past ye... http://bit.ly/ciXWpR

Apple iPad printing problem solved http://bit.ly/9fyEeN

Already have my Motorola Milestone or Droid for short. Battery problems are a real nuisance but apart from that this is a brilliant phone...

12 hours ago by Rex Alfie on Has Android turned the iPhone tide?

Apple iPad printing problem solved http://bit.ly/9IqJ2X

Westpac hired 304 tech staff over the past year http://bit.ly/93Jm7A

Google: hack our apps!: In a codelab released on Tuesday, Google invited developers to "hack" its 'Jarlsberg' app ... http://bit.ly/8ZXtHO

More in sorrow, Notrash - you need to be told that there is a name for people who use blogs to advertise. It starts with T and ends with ...

13 hours ago by gnome on 57 ISPs signed up for filter forum

Web 2.0 the way to the people: Darren Greenwood keeps his feet on New Zealand's shaky ground and his head up in th... http://bit.ly/9iS28M

ACMA a spectrum slowpoke: Optus: Optus government and corporate affairs director Maha Krishnapillai today criticis... http://bit.ly/c4eoip

This filter has got to stop. I've been tracking this since the first publication of the idea, to the mass amounts of money there spen...

15 hours ago by Suranyi on 57 ISPs signed up for filter forum

Oh also meant to ask these animals. if you are student and have CS$ you cannot go to your student store and just buy an upgrade at a red...

15 hours ago by thubleau on Adobe explains Aussie CS5 pricing

RT @zdnetaustralia: Optus criticises ACMA on spectrum http://bit.ly/bikG5b

Screw The World Adobe. Hear are the facts, forget what any monkey with a broom up his proverbial tells you from Adobe. You can get the ...

15 hours ago by thubleau on Adobe explains Aussie CS5 pricing

See, it just goes to show, you get a few billion dollars under your belt and you think you can just throw a wad of cash at a law firm and...

16 hours ago by llmau on Google asks for Groggle extension

The new ticketing systems in Sydney and Melbourne have been badly handled. The systems have stupid names carved out in juvenile all-lower...

17 hours ago by Mel Sommersberg on Victoria's myki claims $80m this year

Best way to circumvent this stupidity is to vote these idiots out of office!

17 hours ago by grump on Conroy given filter circumvention demo

Motorola nabs SA police radio deal: Police and Emergency Services Minister Michael Wright yesterday announced that... http://bit.ly/cruwIh

Motorola nabs SA police radio deal http://bit.ly/bZcYSs via @ZDNetAustralia

Amazon launches Apac cloud http://tinyurl.com/37kqnzv

Aristo, saying HTML5 is the Apple alternative to flash suggests that Apple authored it, which is the kind of history re-write Apple and J...

17 hours ago by meski on Has Android turned the iPhone tide?

RT @zdnetaustralia: Motorola enters into a contract with SA Govt Radio Network http://bit.ly/dA5nmO

What do readers think of this new feature layout? Thanks!

-Brian

18 hours ago by BrianH2 on Azure in Australia: is Microsoft too late?

Google isn't (yet) in the board game business, so Boggle would have nothing to fear. As explained in the podcast, there's three t...

18 hours ago by stilgherrian on Are Google and Groggle really similar?

I remember watching a documentary on a particular European country that trialled this in one of its cities with incredible results. The ...

18 hours ago by shaddowofadream on Henry suggests GPS for street tax

Conroy given filter circumvention demo - Communications - News http://bit.ly/dljnov #nocleanfeed #censorship

no incentives or tax breaks for ISPs, just simply a way to allow ISPs to discuss with DBCDE as to the best way to implement such a scheme...

19 hours ago by notrash.com.au on 57 ISPs signed up for filter forum

RT @zdnetaustralia: Telstra workers in Melb strike today http://bit.ly/aQWWAy

Telstra workers in Melb strike today http://bit.ly/aQWWAy

VHA to drop '3' branding...>> http://bit.ly/9YsoFz

Private equity firm buys 70% Sophos stake: Private equity firm Apax Partners has bought a majority stake in Sophos... http://bit.ly/b7SfuV

Amazon launches Apac cloud http://tinyurl.com/37kqnzv

Has Android Turned The iphone Tide? : http://is.gd/bUbn0 (via @zednetaustralia ) << HB loves Android...

@MichelleBlicavs Thanks Michelle - there's an early Twisted Wire that asks whether a mobile NBN is what we really need http://bit.ly/dk1rUS

More net filtering idiocy... http://bit.ly/cc47Br http://bit.ly/ck7NXv http://bit.ly/bd5k9S http://bit.ly/9JvzBR #nocleanfeed

Govt agencies move on social media policy http://goo.gl/fb/6IuOJ #smpg

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