Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s most experienced commentators and journalists. Alan is the founder of Eureka Report, Australia’s most successful investment newsletter, and Business Spectator, a 24-hour free business news and commentary website. He also hosts Inside Business, a half-hour Sunday programme on the ABC, is the finance presenter on the ABC News - and producer of the nightly graph (or two).
The election of a reformist president in Iran may lead to the lifting of sanctions. Given Iran's resource riches, fast-moving Australian firms could be the beneficiaries.
Mario Draghi's capacity to protect the euro will hinge on a ruling by Germany's constitutional court in October. Early signs suggest the court is willing to make tough decisions to protect German finances.
Shares in the engineering and mining services company lifted today after NBN Co awarded it $366 million worth of contract extensions for the broadband rollout.
Kevin Rudd's camp has employed crude methods to promote the worthy cause of a post-union party – inadvertently adding an ironic twist to Labor's misogyny concerns.
Labor is due for a comeuppance at the election but Julia Gillard's political failings are just one of the party's crimes to come out of this wayward parliament.
Shares in the engineering and mining services company lifted today after NBN Co awarded it $366 million worth of contract extensions for the broadband rollout.
Vodafone's 4G network is a step in the right direction for Australia's number three telco and could yet allow it to accomplish the impossible... a comeback.
While the lack of attendees at the anti-wind protest in Canberra left MC Alan Jones a bit underwhelmed, a hastily organised pro-wind rally nearby had more than six times the number of attendees.
As Russia and its allies block climate talks there's hope that America might finally do something. Elsewhere, Warren Buffett continues to back renewables, it's the end of a solar era in Italy, Japan shows signs of slowing down and the EU carbon price lifts again.
CEOs outline changing views on corporate spending and profits, their economic expectations and political dissatisfaction, including advice for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
UK-based Zeebox wants to be the intermediary for all social media-television interactions. It will not only have to lure viewers, but the networks themselves.
With new and dangerous malware infecting our computers every day, there's now a potent argument for cyber security measures that use data and insight gleamed from past infections to help prevent new ones.
Small businesses have embraced the internet but 16 per cent don't use anti-virus software and 30 per cent don't use a protective firewall, a new study shows.
ReutersA lawsuit filed against Symantec Corp claims that the software maker seeks to persuade consumers to buy its products by scaring them with misleading information about the health of their computers.
Despite fears of an explosion the overall volume of mobile threats has remained pretty low compared to computer-based threats. That could change quickly as mobile technology gets more sophisticated.
While new research highlights the potential use of smartphones as spying devices by intrepid code breakers, the technique of using accelerometers to keep track of keystrokes doesn’t look that feasible in the real world.
Productivity gains don't always coincide with employee preferences, but that's the case with increasing demands from workers to use their own personal devices at work. If only it didn't throw up so many security headaches.
It's all well and good for consumers to dump their PCs for notebooks in the search for mobility, but when a business does the same its workers often become more distant and vulnerable to security breaches. How can this be overcome?
ReutersUS lawmakers considering new privacy laws scolded Google and Apple for not doing enough to guard mobile device users' location data, despite executives' assertions that they do not abuse the information.
Search giant Google today revealed that several months ago it had destroyed the payload data its Streetview cars had collected over the past several years as they brushed past Wi-Fi networks on their journeys around Australia, finally putting an end to one of the Australian technology sector's most controversial privacy scandals.
