Digital competence, jobs and ANZSCO

Digital agency is the collective ability of a person to be “able to use technologies for self-identified purposes and to be able to modify,...

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Can't log in to Hotel Wifi

Travelling. It can be fun, but if we are travelling for work, and can't get onto the hotel Wifi, travelling can suddenly turn into a ...

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TechRepublic's list of Excel tips

TechRepublic has great, clearly presented tips on using Excel. Lisa Hornung and Jewell Conner of TechRepublic have just posted a list with...

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The IT myths we still believe

Reported by TechRepublic, a survey by HighSpeedInternet.com found that computer users in the USA hold onto some outdated ideas about techn...

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Flexible extension screens

At the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the USA, A4 flexible screens were featured by a company called Faytech ( here ). The touch...

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Powering up

How most of us power our homes and businesses is on the cusp of change. When we first built our house, we put in photovoltaic cells on t...

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Moving Digital Literacy to Digital Competence

We have literacy - our word competence - and numeracy - our numerical competence - as measures of our ability to function in today's s...

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Driving: going the way of swords and spats

I read a great post on Medium recently about self-drive cars. It was a great post by Tony Aubé, pulling together a range of ideas in a ver...

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The Adoption of Self-Drive Vehicles

(Harrow, 1 March 2016) There was a great post by TechRepublic on the state of play with self-drive cars recently. Reece (29 October 2...

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Big Company Products equal Safety, not 'Love'

I was reading an article by Matt Asay for TechRepublic last week (18 September 2015). Matt proposed that people want to be locked in with ...

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Want to bet? Pascal versus Kirk

I have been reading " Who Owns the Future ", a book on technological change by Jaron Lanier. In it, Jaron proposes a secular tak...

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Technology and Magic

Arthur C. Clarke's had three laws, and the third of them, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...

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Obsolescence and Technology

Once upon a time an ability to cut fire-sized pieces of burnable wood and stack it near the back yard privy was a necessary lifehack: each...

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Newsletter Issue 40, February 2002

Sam Young Newsletter Issue 40, February 2002 Hi guys, Check out Technology Trends below, where I take a quic...

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