Category: Technology
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The Way Forward for Innovation in Australia
Old innovation ecosystem models are broken, it is time to realise the open models based around startups (particularly scalable global product based tech startups) are the key to our future. The above diagram by StartupCommons summarises the change in focus at a macro level, we also need to look at…
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AR/VR Patent Rates Not Exploding Alone
Excellent article from The Information on how Microsoft is leading the augmented reality patent war. Meanwhile this week … HP (the printer manufacturers who split from their enterprise business 10 months ago) is consolidating their share of the printing market with 6,500 patents being acquired from Samsung for a little…
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Facial recognition goes mainstream
Home and office facial recognition is now a plug and play exercise set to go mainstream (thanks to crowd sourcing) in homes, small businesses and maybe even departmentally in corporates and government from as little as $200. Combine this with integration services that are now also rapidly becoming cheap and…
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Blockchain hot spots
As blockchain outstrips bitcoin in fintech what are the hot areas? CB Insights has some insightful views, looks a bit like Google Trends…
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Updated Customer List
We have updated our list of client projects and they span a very wide range of industries and themes of work. Check them out, we can probably help you maximise your opportunities or reduce risks and more. We have also worked on projects in a wide range of locations around Australia,…
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Plan B Uses Old Printer Parts To Create Detailed 3D Models
Cooper & Co Analysis: This is smart, sustainable and plays havoc with intellectual property rights. But it might just bring manufacturing back to developed nations.
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Tapjoy does the math, moves from bare metal to OpenStack cloud
Originally posted on Gigaom: These are interesting times for IT pros. The pressure is on to assess how their company’s tech is running and what deployment model will be best going forward. And they are inundated with claims that a) public cloud is best for everything, b) a mix of public…
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Software Entrepreneurs Must Go Mobile-First Or Die
Mobile has long been the catch cry for startup and enterprise Business Technology experts alike. This article originally from TechCrunch gives a very well prioritised list of how and why with examples.
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Microsoft Has Just Launched Its First Android Smartphone, The Nokia X2
This new MS CEO is unlike any other, after Office on iPad and Salesforce.com now there is this droid phone, talk about changing strategy …
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Internet Trends Analysis
Here at Cooper & Co we have a long standing appreciation of the work of Mary Meeker who is now @KPCB and continues to produce her excellent Internet Trends report on a semi regular basis. Here are our top points extracted from the rather wonderful 164 pages of charts Mary and…
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