How to build a $37 million online cat empire

http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/managing/blogs/enterprise/how-to-build-a-37-million-online-cat-empire-20130328-2gvnp.html

LONDON: North Korea has been caught doctoring a photograph to double the number of hovercraft in a military exercise as part of its increasingly aggressive propaganda campaign.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/north-koreans-send-photoshop-army-into-battle-20130328-2gvmp.html

South Australian Government launches information technology sector challenge, Unleased

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/sa-business-journal/south-australian-government-launches-information-technology-sector-challenge-unleased/story-e6fredel-1226607721053

SOUTH AUSTRALIA's toddlers will be using apps in the classroom on tablets and touchscreen electronic boards in an Australian-first trial of high-tech devices for pre-schoolers. Prince Alfred College has signed an agreement with Samsung, which will provide the school's early-learning centre with the new device that blends a tablet, laptop and 65-inch touchscreen e-board.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/latest-tablets-prescribed-for-south-australias-toddlers/story-fn7bfu22-1226608009844

When a 17-year-old high school student can sell an iPhone app based on another firm's technology and with no revenue for $US30 million ($28.6m), has the world gone mad? The Summly app, which at its core uses technology from Silicon Valley nonprofit research institute SRI International, summarised news articles to make them easier to read on a small screen.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/teens-28m-payday-a-high-price-in-yahoos-quest-for-cool-20130327-2gtgt.html

DreamWorks tops compute-cycle record with 'The Croods'. It required a whopping 80 million compute hours to render, 15 million more hours than DreamWorks' last record holder, "The Rise of the Guardians." Between 300 and 400 animators worked on "The Croods" over the past three years. The images, from raw sketches to stereoscopic high-definition shots, required about 250TB of data storage capacity to make.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237880/DreamWorks_tops_compute_cycle_record_with_The_Croods_

Working his dream job at Blizzard has allowed Luke Mancini to take the time to develop complete scenes rather than simple character sketches.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/blogs/screenplay/working-for-blizzard-an-aussie-artists-cinderella-story-20130327-2gsto.html

How Relying on Algorithms and Bots Can Be Really, Really Dangerous

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/clive-thompson-2104/

Yahoo! buys app Summly from Australian-British inventor Nick D'Aloisio, 17

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/yahoo-buys-app-from-teen-inventor/story-fn7bfu22-1226605913738

IT Career profile: Gibbons has been in the chief information officer role with employment website Seek for 18 months. He was previously CIO, Asia-Pacific, for GE Capital

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/it-jobs/finding-challenges-in-the-world-of-seek/story-fna12gpc-1226605841159

Skype constantly exposes users' internet addresses to the entire world, allowing criminals to better target cyber attacks and rivals to locate people.

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/skype-leaks-your-location-20130325-2gou9.html

They are known as wearable computers and are yet to hit the streets, but already they are creating controversy. Google will soon give away and trial 8000 pieces of high-tech headwear known as Google Glass - a computer with a head-mounted display that can run apps, record high-definition video and is operated through voice commands

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/through-the-looking-glass-into-the-future-20130322-2glj6.html

Apple iPhone customers are potentially being overcharged by hundreds - possibly thousands - of dollars because a software bug is leading to excessive data being drained from mobile phones.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/glitch-costing-iphone-users-dearly-20130323-2gmeg.html