In 1994, I wanted to place an entry in the Phone Book to give me an advantage over my “soon to be competition”. I tried to register “Internet Australia Pty. Ltd.” as a company name. Quite rightly, ASIC refused my attempt at registering a “generic” name. I succeeded in my efforts by registering [...]
I am sure that we have all been victims or observed the playground bully at work.And some of my readers may even have pulled wings off fly’s. I’m ashamed to admit that I did. Although I am pleased to announce that my magnifying glass torturing of ants and fly’s ceased when I was about 9.As [...]
Yesterday I creamed News Limited for fake and political reporting, targeted at influencing the outcome of the iiNet trial currently underway. They used non-empirical data and ancient quotes from an misnamed organisation all designed to create FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. That’s what the media these days considers is what is necessary for [...]
In 1981 I submitted my thesis for consideration. “Increasing the GDP by decreasing the cost of telecommunications to small business” (SME SOHO).Since that time, I have arguably been engaged in an experiment (to which I have devoted my life and entrepreneurial efforts, some successful and some not), to prove the conclusion in my paper.i.e.: By [...]
What the hell does that mean? OK – In layman's language – The Cavalry is coming……. Every so often a piece of software comes along that has the ability to change the world. Napster proved it by causing a permanent disruption to the music industries monopoly on physical distribution. Google have proved that, by [...]
In 1994, AS CEO of Australia’s fastest growing ISP, I insisted that we install W3c cache servers at each dial-in pop around Australia. And we cached the “J” server from Palo Alto to our Portland Oregon offices and then replicated that in Sydney. All DNS queries on the Ausnet network stayed in Australia [...]
Today’s article is only for open minded individuals. If you consider that all conspiracy theories are garbage and are not open to the what, why, how and when, then please go and join a monastery and put in a request to come back in the next life as an ostrich. The content industry has [...]
In the beginning was the Internet and the investors wanted to know – “But from where will we make our money?” (Sounds more authentic when said with a yiddish accent….frum vere vill ve mak our money?) So Business to Business E-Commerce became the catch phrase of the day. B2B will give the investors a [...]