Last weekend my wife and were guests with a friend who is a barrister, and on the way to becoming a judge, all being well. We were talking about the mobile devices that we each had. He does not have one. No iPhone, no iPad, no Blackberry – not even a good old fashioned mobile [...]
While the media is all doom and gloom, for some there is boundless optimism. I have been asked to do several pitches in the last two weeks, two to companies that are expanding into new areas and want to make sure that they capture all the market potential that they see, and one to a [...]
Next week is the start of the spring semester at university and I am back at the Arts Faculty of the University Of Wollongong for a reprise teaching the Digital Communications course I initiated last year and one other course. DIGC302 is a course that I have developed that last year was a huge amount [...]
The earthquake that hit Japan has to be one of the most tragic events of the last few years – and there have been a few! Over the last 6 or 7 years I have spent a fair bit of time in Japan, always on business. Its a country that I truly love. Actually that [...]
Last week I was in Japan for the Nanotech conference. It was very interesting…. I made some new friends and I think that there will be a couple of very interesting business opportunities that come out of it. But that is incidental to what is important in Japan. What is important is trust, friendship, respect, [...]
Its the end of the semester here and my teaching gig is coming to a close. Its been very interesting and a lot of fun and its also been a learning experience. 115 students in the course, and 22 in the tutorial that I teach, and then 7 in the other course that I teach… [...]
The EFF has a pretty useful reference page in place for anyone who wants to get a quick update on some of the most vexation questions about IP – particularly with respect to media. (Tip of the hat to John Pin for pointing it out). The reality is that we are moving into a really [...]
In the last couple of days I have been involved in meetings with two fairly substantial companies on behalf of a client. Both publicly listed, one is a manufacturing company that has a large slice of the market in Australia for its products (Company 1). The other is a company that is a relatively new [...]
Prologue: (purloined from http://www.fourthturning.com/html/boom_generation.html) The Boom Generation (Prophet, born 1943-1960) basked as children in Dr. Spock permissiveness, suburban conformism, Sputnik-era schooling, Beaver Cleaver friendliness, and Father Knows Best family order. From the Summer of Love to the Days of Rage, they came of age rebelling against the worldly blueprints of their parents. As their [...]
I have been amazed at the outpouring of emotion about the decision by the court last week in favour of Larrikin Music in its plagiarism suit against EMI Music. This is in relation to whether “Downunder”, the iconic Aussie song from Men At Work, infringed “Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree“, the iconic song [...]