A bold new frontier
But the Internet is not just providing stockbrokers with a new shopfront, companies with outlets for investor relations, discussion groups to decide what to buy and global exchange alliances.
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A change in direction
One day, the Head of the Art Department at UCSD was looking at some of his prints and said, You should really meet this guy, Jeff Raskin he does computing and I think you might be interested in workin
A job, Perhaps?
One site definitely worth visiting to find out more about the potential of telecommuting is Telecommuting Jobs (http://www.tjobs.com/). Just some examples of the many different job categories requirin
Aaron is born
In 1973, Ed Feigenbaum, who ran the prestigious AI laboratory at Stanford University, invited Cohen to spend some time there. That year, in Stanford, Aaron was born. The name, he explains, was chosen
Background
Cohen is in his early 70s and looks every bit the successful artist - grey hair pulled back into a short ponytail, sweatshirt and chinos. Only the voice is a surprise - halfway between cockney and Cal
But why rush into online trading?
The growth of share ownership and specialist media supporting it has produced a population that knows enough - or at least feels it knows enough - to invest in shares directly without brokers advice.<
Clear as Crystal
The advantages of an LCD display over a conventional CRT are well known - dramatic savings in terms of space, reduced energy consumption, less radiation and heat generation, easier alignment of geomet
Competition Winners
Thank you to all our subscribers who entered the Canon Scanner Competition and the Home Loan Analyser competition. The Lucky winner of the CanoScan FB320P colour scanner is J Bonney from Waverton.
David Wilson takes us deep into the land of the
Internet stock trader.
In the past five years Australians have taken to share investment like ducks to water, more so than any other nation on earth. Not surprisingly, the Internet is underpinning this move, both by spawnin
E-trading
Associate Professor Roger Debreceny from the Nanyang Business School in Singapore listed as his five favourite Web sites for investors Coles Myers www.colesmyer.com.au for its good presentation, Lend
For the faint of heart
If your nerve is not hardy enough to jump into shares directly, other Internet support services for buying shares stand behind online brokers, such as BT Funds Managements BT Online, where investors w
Freelancers vs Telecommuters
In general, people who work from home using computers and the Web fall into two categories. Firstly, there's the self-employed freelancers who have set up their own companies and then sell their servi
Further Reading
Although a lot has been written by and about Harold Cohen over the years, most of it is scattered through obscure articles and gallery catalogues. The one exception is Aarons Code by Pamela McCorduck
Generating Meaning
Many of Aarons most interesting paintings oblige the viewer to construct a story about whats going on. In one theres a forest setting in which two people stand close together, but are apparently ignor
Gold Bulletin 3
With our rapidly approaching second birthday we are still moving on at a tremendous pace, we were recently shortlisted as one of three finalists for "Magazine of the Year". Who would be so bold as to
Harold Cohen
Jack Weber meets Harold Cohen, the acclaimed artist who gave it all up for computer programming and his mechanical artist, Aaron
In 1968 Harold Cohen was an internationally acclaimed artist, wid
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Interests Rates and your investments
If theres one word guaranteed to make stockbrokers and share investors panic, it is Greenspan. As head of the US central bank, Dr Alan Greenspan controls Americas official interest rates. But why shou
Internet Primed PCs
Unless youve been comatose for the last seven to eight years then you might have missed the growing fad for all things related to the Internet - that amorphous, heaving, abstract new medium that is in
Internet resources for Telecommuters
One of the best places to find out about telecommuting is the Web itself. Here are
five sites, plus brief descriptions, to get you started on your telecommuting career:
1. Miningco
Invest with care
All online brokers provide representatives to process investors trades onto the ASX trading platform, and some services include straight-through order processing, where what the buy or sell investors
ISDN
ISDN, an acronym for Integrated Services Digital Network, is a digital service that not only enhances communication by phone and fax, but personal computers as well. In 1997, Telstra introduced a new
It get easier form here
While about 5 million American shares daytraders may use the Internet as their primary source of corporate information, Australia appears still to be in an embryonic stage.
But a s
Look before you leap
When the head of Australias stock exchange urges investors to look before they leap, it is wise to take notice. In this case, ASX Managing Director, Mr Richard Humphry is calling investors to listen b
Managing Telecommuters
The major problem most managers have with supervising teleworkers is the loss of control it entails. And unless the tasks to be completed outside of the office can be objectively measured in some way,
Nasdaq's top 100 online
Until recently, if you wanted direct access to international share markets then you paid for the privilege. If the high-technology Nasdaq exchange beckoned with its higher returns and the opportunity
Nasdaq's top 100 online
Until recently, if you wanted direct access to international share markets then you paid for the privilege. If the high-technology Nasdaq exchange beckoned with its higher returns and the opportunity
No Regrets
Surprise, but not regret: I dont have any doubt about the relative importance of what Im doing compared to what I was doing as a painter, even as a successful painter. Back in the 1960s I was one of a
One Telecommuter's Opinion
Graeme Martin, who runs his own software development company, Delphi Systems Pty. Ltd, has been telecommuting in one form or another since 1982. Back in the eighties, modems were rather primitive, at
One Telecommuter's Opinion
Graeme Martin, who runs his own software development company, Delphi Systems Pty. Ltd, has been telecommuting in one form or another since 1982. Back in the eighties, modems were rather primitive, at
Online brokers: what can they offer you?
So, apart from democratising the float process, what are online brokers offering that is so attractive? Sanford Securities offers price alerts on mobile phones and pagers to traders for whom split-sec
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Technology behind telecommuting
To be an effective telecommuter, most people only need a recently manufactured, middle-of-the-range computer, equipped with a modem (preferably 56K), and an Internet account with an ISP using a standa
Telecommuting: It's not for everyone
Despite the obvious advantages associated with working at home - autonomy, the power to set your own hours, increased job satisfaction, and so on, it's still not an activity that suits everyone. Disad
Telecommuting: It's not for everyone
Despite the obvious advantages associated with working at home - autonomy, the power to set your own hours, increased job satisfaction, and so on, it's still not an activity that suits everyone. Disad
Teleworking's Future
As our lives become busier, productivity advancements that offer a more flexible working environment should be seriously considered. For larger businesses, telecommuting can also help to drastically c
Teleworking's Future
As our lives become busier, productivity advancements that offer a more flexible working environment should be seriously considered. For larger businesses, telecommuting can also help to drastically c
The Future is Wireless
PC Authority journalist Matt Cockett discusses the future of wireless technology
Much of the buzz at this years technology expos has come from the latest had-held and mobile communication
The Internet of the Future
David Neiger, journalist for PC Authority recently invited to speak at the July NSW Australian Computer Society Forum, held in Sydney.
David gave a very enlightening talk on The Internet
The J Box
With so much music player software freely available on the Internet, you may wonder why GMT would release a retail box product which is specifically designed for playing MP3 music.
The painting machine
Aarons studio is in a modern purpose-built block on the UCSD campus in La Jolla. Canvases are stacked ten- or 12-deep, others fill the racks at the back of the room. It could be any artists studio any
ViewSonic VS-VE150
On the outside, there is little to distinguish the ViewSonic VS-VE150 from many of the other TFT screens on test this month, but it is in its image quality that it ultimately stands out.
Work from home - GOLD FEATURE
With the help of the Internet and communication technology, staying at home to do your work is now a reality, says Tony Stevenson.
At some stage of our lives, most of us have daydreamed a