Nathan Cochrane

Nathan Cochrane (1970- ) is an Australian technology journalist and Editor-in-Chief for IT publications CRN Australia and iTNews, both of which are published by Haymarket Group. Cochrane previously edited the NEXT IT section in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. Prior to this, Cochrane edited the IT section of The West Australian newspaper in Perth in 1996 after a stint as its communications roundsman and general reporter.

His 2002 story on exploding CD-ROMs sparked the imagination of Beyond Television Productions and featured in the second episode of the first season of MythBusters.

A story the previous year, Melbourne Man Patents the Wheel, blew the lid off the growing absurdity of Australia's patent system and, after it was featured on Slashdot, led to MIT awarding jointly an Ig Nobel Prize to the patent applicant and IP Australia. Cochrane also broke the story that exposed the video compression scandal surrounding Adams Platform and its founder Adam Clark , and first brought to light the plight of Adam Hinkley ("Hinks") the young creator of the first modern peer-to-peer application, Hotline, and its company Hotline Communications. Cochrane was among the first journalists to sound warning bells about emerging music and video filesharing applications in 1996 and 2000, respectively.

At age 24, and after a decade online, he became Australia's first journalist on the web with the internationally acclaimed GameWave website.

He is one of the world's biggest TV gameshow cash prize winners, winning $A515,000 in a single episode of Deal or No Deal.

External links

• Article in The Age about his win
• Nathan Cochrane at the Deal Hall of Fame
• The Age profile

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