Ray Shaw
Ray Shaw ray@im.com.au has a passion for IT ever since building his first computer in 1980. He is a qualified journalist, hosted a consumer IT based radio program on ABC radio for 10 years, has developed world leading software for the events industry and is smart enough to no longer own a retail computer store!
Healthy apps
Health related apps are the next big thing for smartphones.
Cutbacks drive a stake through the heart of education
The Labor government has slashed $2.8 Billion from education - $900 million from university budgets, scrapping HECS discounts for upfront payment by students and ‘saving’ at least $500 million by limiting annual, work related, self-education expense tax deductions to $2,000. All are a tragedy but the latter is a real setback for all.
Smartcars – dangerous or simply can’t make money out of the apps?
Generally speaking most recent cars have an on-board computer (called an engine control unit) that uses a 32bit, nominally 40Mhz, ARM based SOC and runs some version of Linux.
