Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

As part of ongoing coverage of new technology trends, startups, and business models we have started analysing the local market segments and trends for technology companies. As a result of this, we will be publishing our reports on various sectors in the coming months. Most of the reports will be freely available on this portal. If any organisation is interested in understanding the new market forces and technology trends in the local market across IT (Enterprise, Product, Open source, SAAS, Cloud Computing, eCommerce), Telecom (Mobile, OSS/BSS), Media (News, Social Networking), Marketing/Branding, Green Tech (Sustainability, Carbon trading), R&D we can help them with to be ready and prepared for the future challenges. Following is the list of published reports and analyses. Australian IT Industry Snapshot - 2014 Digital Transformation Framework IT Strategy Framework Why Digital Transformation is not an IT Transformation Status of Mobile Advertising in Australia Digital Wi

We have now started covering interviews with CEO’s, Media Personalities, Philanthropists, VC’s, Entrepreneurs to understand more about innovation, tech trends and emerging business models. As part of the series we have published these interviews. Shane Moore , Founder, ApartmentReviews Scott Middleton , Co-Founder, infome Keith Ahren , Co-Founder, mogeneration Daniel Nitsche , Founder, Shadow Gap Anton Sher , Co-Founder, Front Foot Karl De ABrew , Co-Founder, Debenu Dr. Keith Ayott e, Co-Founder, Windlab Systems Malcom Allen , Founder, Glynx Aulay Macaulay , Founder, JutRosters Graham Dawson , Founder, OZWeather Graeme Speak , CEO, Founder, GoPC Susie Hambleton , Entrepreneur, Owner Kahuna Bay Meg Tsiamis , Entrepreneur, Owner dLook, Obits Sreenivas Ghatty , Entrepreneur, Tree Oils India Rick Anstey - A VC Perspective, iQFunds Paul Budde , State of Telecom in Australia, Budde Comm Ross Hill , Entrepreneur, HatchThat Nick McNaughton , A VC View, Blue Cove Ventures Che Metcalfe , Entr

Today we showcase the story of an exciting venture, from Sydney, Australia, infome - Find Anything Nearby from your Mobile, co-founded by Scott Middleton, Andrew Lowe and Brett McDowall. In a recent email-based interview with us, Scott gave insights into how he is managing and juggling. This is what he has to say in his interview with us: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? When I was about 12 - thanks to a book my parents bought me - I found out that I could create web pages, I was so excited I distinctly remember tossing and turning the entire night because I began imagining the possibilities, imagining what I could create; especially how I could build websites for local businesses. A year or two later, still excited and full of enthusiasm I’d learnt how to create mobile games, A well-established local mobile developer bought my first game and it went worldwide – it even made it to a top 20 list for Australian developers. Even now, I still love mobile. I

Background : Australian Startups Carnival - 2008 is an initiative by VS Consulting Group . This online (web-based) carnival is all about learning about new ventures started/surfaced in IT, Telecoms, Green Tech, Media, and Web 2.0/Social Networking in the last couple of years. Vishal covered the state of web 2.0  startups in 2006 for ReadWriteWeb . But since then a lot of water has gone under. We are now expanding our coverage, as some great ideas are being put together and executed. We intend to discover the people behind these startups, their motivations, how the future looks from their perspective, what technologies are being used, what market segments they are targeting, their mistakes, their advice and more. Why: One of the main reasons we are doing this  is to make this black art of starting up more open and easy. When we look on the web there is so much high-level information about business models and how companies are doing, blah blah, but not much on how we should go about it

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture co-founded by Adele Whish-Wilson in 2002, Momentum Technologies Group - Live Video Streaming Over Mobile. In a recent email-based interview with Adele , she gave insights into her venture and how she is progressing with it. This is what she has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? My background was initially in psychology and communications, which led to roles in the private, community and government sectors that covered everything from supporting health campaigns to assisting in developing state government department e-business strategies. My interest in finding ways to improve ‘how things are done’ led me to take a role as a business analyst, then onto starting Momentum in 2002 – where I continue to be focused on assisting our clients find a better way to get things done. My interests are long-distance running (completed my first marathon last year, and did Oxfam’s 100km Trailwalker this year),

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture co-founded by David Jones in 2005, ThreatMETRIX - Security for eCommerce Applications. In a recent email-based interview with David, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about your venture/company? We created ThreatMetrix to deliver a new layer of security protection specifically for the explosive growth of eCommerce transactions. With the growth of over 20% pa of online credit card transactions and web 2.0 applications now monetizing, the fraudsters have taken advantage of their anonymity on the internet to steal credit cards, fraudulently purchase products and launder money. ThreatMetrix delivers intelligence to eCommerce sites to detect both good customers and fraudsters using stolen identities. • Who are the people behind this and how it started? The founders and core team previously built security products for SurfControl (now WebSENSE) - we saw the u

Today we showcase a story of a man who is, an entrepreneur and a successful Angel investor, helping a lot of Australian business to realize their dreams. Clay Cook is based in Perth, Western Australia. Let us explore a bit further how Clay is helping others and what he thinks about innovation coming out of Australia. This is what Clay has to say in his interview with me. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? My "tags" would go something like… Serial tech entrepreneur, Ineedhits, Mint i, Vibe Capital , Gooruze, Angel investor, Father, Husband, Relaxed, Perth, Australia, Nice guy. • What is the name of your venture firm? We are Angel investors and over the past couple of years of years have invested around $500k of our own personal money. • Who are the people behind this and how it started? It is myself and my wife Rachel Cook. We started investing in 2006 when we invested in 1stRed (formally Red Lottery), and then we continued with investments into M

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture founded by Grant Simonds from Melbourne, Australia, MComms TV - a software solutions company that specialises in live Mobile TV monitoring, digital audio/video mixing, transcoding and Mobile TV Ad Insertion for the telecommunications industry. Their products are used by network operators and content providers globally to deliver innovative Mobile TV services to subscribers. In a recent email-based interview with Grant, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about your venture/company? MComms Monitor enables video streaming operators to monitor the availability of multiple video streams on-screen and using SNMP traps. Provides a “Video Wall” for staff and customers to view available streaming content. MComms Transcode converts redundant live video streams from the internet, IPTV and analog/digital feeds into compatible Mobile TV video streams. A stream can

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture founded by, Mark White from, Brisbane, Australia, Locatrix . It provides mobile social networking solutions for deployment by network operators and location-based services to corporate customers and application solution providers. It uses location to create and shape mobile content experiences that engage subscribers and generate ARPU. This is the engine beneath Telstra’s (Sensis) Whereis Everyone . We recently learnt about Locatrix while compiling the list of Emerging Mobile Startups in Australia . In a recent email-based interview with Mark, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I’m a native Queenslander, completing a degree in Computer Science at the University of Queensland before embarking on a career that gravitated towards technical marketing roles here and in Singapore for US multinational companies:

Today I would like to introduce Josh Sharp from Melbourne, Founder of Tech Collective - a site that aggregates prominent and up-and-coming Australian bloggers who write about the new generation of the web and related technologies. In a recent email-based chat with him, he explained his future plans and a new venture he is working on, named, Recursive Media § Please tell us about yourself, your background and your interests? I'm a web developer in Melbourne, and up until now have been primarily focused on building web applications for SMEs. I'm interested in where the mobile and cloud computing spaces are going, and how having a 'persistent' link to the web is really going to change people's behaviour. I'm also keenly interested in helping the local startup community grow and develop. § Please tell us about your venture/company? TechCollective is an aggregator of prominent local bloggers in the web startup space. Its aim is to foster the local community and sp

Today we showcase an exciting and successful venture founded by, Tim Moreillon from, Geelong, Australia, NetDefence . In a recent email-based interview with Tim, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? Out of school, I worked in the car industry for 8 years, doing everything from sales to IT to administration to compliance to management. I felt like a change after this and decided to focus my attention on the Information technology field. My interests include music, cars, photography and of course, technology! • Please tell us about your venture/company? NetDefence helps businesses protect themselves from technology threats. We go out to the market and find the best-of-breed solutions for our clients and ensure they and their staff can use the Internet and be shielded from malicious threats, scams and fraud. We also help businesses meet their compliance needs. As le

The  iPhone phenomenon is global and is doing well in terms of grabbing the market share from other handsets. In Australia consumer is crying, even though it’s a hit with the general public, courtesy of 3 telcos, which have got an agreement with Apple, Telstra , Optus & Vodafone. The main reason consumers are crying is that their pricing plans are the most expensive compared to the other 21 countries where iPhone 2.0 is launched. Well, there are no prizes for guessing that Telstra's plans are the most expensive plans. Most of us haven't been able to understand why Telstra is offering plans that are not suitable for a smart device like an iPhone - it's not a phone it's a mini PC. But now it is becoming clear why this is so. It’s not widely known that Telstra negotiated hard with Apple to allow applications like Whereis (Sensis) to be preloaded on iPhone. This is the usual territory for Telstra, Being the dominant player here they get away with most of the time with