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mobile technology
Books & arts
Mobile generations
Jock Given
28 June 2023
Behind their inexorable rise, mobile phones leave a landscape littered with once-mighty businesses and technological dead-ends
National affairs
The price of privacy
James Panichi
30 July 2021
A case that began in the Irish courts is shaping Australia’s efforts to update its 1980s privacy laws
National affairs
Television on the line
Giles Tanner & Jock Given
8 December 2020
The government’s media reform green paper raises big issues. But should it be thinking even bigger?
National affairs
Panopticon in your pocket
Michael Bartos
27 April 2020
The government releases its COVIDSafe app, and research continues around the globe
National affairs
Let’s get contact tracing right
Sarah Barns
23 April 2020
How we build these apps is how we’re building our digital future
Essays & reportage
You, me, data and the city
Sarah Barns
18 December 2019
Is the data-rich city taking on a life of its own? And can Hugh Stretton’s
Ideas for Australian Cities
help us navigate its hazards?
National affairs
Whatever happened to spectrum reform?
Giles Tanner & Jock Given
1 July 2019
Should we renovate the process we have for allocating the airwaves, or knock it down and start again?
Correspondents
A wallet, a browser and a social networking tool
Xan Rice
20 April 2011
Kenyans are leapfrogging landlines and going straight to mobile, with enormous social and economic implications, writes
Xan Rice