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Tracking sleep is now routine in monitoring overall well-being. But are the devices used to do this actually useful, or have we simply found a more sophisticated way to clock watch?
The data tell the story: mobile ads work.
Is the shopping experience the next for a technological overhaul with virtual reality?
Should ‘think of the children’ ever come to the point of spying on teenagers?
Ubiquitous social media giant Facebook has launched a mobile service called Instant Articles. It allows news stories provided by a number of partners to be read in their entirety from the Facebook iOS…
With thousands of apps on the market, some tips to choose the right ones.
Broadcast anything, anywhere is the new mantra of Periscope, Meerkat, Livestream and others.
Teenagers need to trust their parents and learn about trusting others. Apps like Teensafe might undermine both.
As technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms from preschool to grad school, the concern is that it’s all flash, no substance.
If you have been on Twitter this past month, you have heard of Meerkat. This is an app that allows you to stream video from your mobile phone. It’s barely a month old and already it seems there’s a “Meerkat…
Even as the US economic recovery remains subpar with employment gains in only the lowest-paying jobs – and sluggish gains at that – one segment is surging: the still-nascent app industry. Apple’s latest…
Last night, BlackBerry CEO John Chen penned a blog post on net neutrality. He was in favor of net neutrality but in the last half of his post introduced a whole new notion of neutrality: “application neutrality…
The incredible rise of Uber demonstrates how technology can be simultaneously a disruptive and useful business idea popular with its users, while causing significant controversy elsewhere. The way Uber…
You don’t have to look far to see how many ways criminals can exploit mobile devices for nefarious purposes. From simple phishing scams to creating fake Wi-Fi networks, the methods in which data can be…
Police play a proverbial cat-and-mouse game with those they pursue, but also with the technology of the day they use. This game of one-upmanship, of measure and countermeasure, sees one or the other side…
The age of the wearable is fast upon us, and many of the new products we’re going to see in the next 12 months will be all about health and happiness. The New York Times recently predicted that soon some…
FireChat, the mobile phone app that allows users to communicate directly with each other through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi instead of through the existing telecoms network, has demonstrated its usefulness in…
The app market is estimated to generate US$77 billion (£47.2 billion) in revenue each year – and the segment of children’s apps has grown particularly strongly. However, given that developing an app costs…
People interested in tracking their health, physical activity levels and body functions can now choose from a plethora of sensor-embedded digital gadgets to monitor and measure their bodies. But the big…
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Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Paediatric Sleep, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor of IT, Southern Cross University
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Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
