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VISA to transform commerce with AI shopping

Posted on May 2, 2025October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Visa will use AI to transform its credit card services into a fully blown AI-driven shopping experience.

Amazon launches first full scale launch of Project Kuiper satellites

Amazon takes on Musk’s Starlink, launching 27 satellites

Posted on April 30, 2025October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Australian telcos, government, the NBN and iconsumers will benefit from Amazon’s long-awaited launch of its first Project Kuiper satellites.

Pumped hydro

Wind, solar and pumped hydro stored energy can deliver baseload power years ahead of nuclear

Posted on March 24, 2025October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Baseload power can be delivered by wind, solar, and hydropower from stored renewable energy without any need for a nuclear solution.

Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen

Could Trump make a play for telco giants Nokia, Ericsson?

Posted on February 13, 2025October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Europe has been pondering whether Donald Trump might make a purchase of Nokia or Ericsson part of a tariff deal?

SpaceX launches two Maxar Earth-observing satellites. Pic: Space.com

Space junk threat derails record-breaking rocket launches

Posted on February 5, 2025October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

A record of five rocket launches in 24-hours was scuttled due to fears about possible collisions with space objects.

Larry Elison speaks in Las Vegas

Oracle mulls nuclear energy for powering a data centre

Posted on September 12, 2024October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Oracle is designing a data centre with three small nuclear reactors, its cofounder Larry Ellison says.

eLumina CEO Lisa Marsh, left, with COO Chris Yang, is adamant eLumina’s operation is different to Tritium, saying combining a battery and fast charger has allowed its large D1 DC fast chargers to be installed anywhere in the country.

EV charger maker eLumina unfazed by Tritium’s spectacular collapse

Posted on August 15, 2024October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

eLumina has showed off its new manufacturing centre at Yatala where it will employ 300 staff to build EV chargers and community batteries.

Satellite

Optus collaborates with SpaceX to pioneer mobile-to-satellite texting in Australia

Posted on February 29, 2024October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Optus customers will send text messages even where there is no ground based coverage.

LiFi

PureLiFi wants to bring revolutionary light-based WiFi to consumers

Posted on February 28, 2024October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Data transmissions using light or LiFi has already taken place with military applications.

Google AI DeepMind technology

AI drugs targeting proteins are in the pipeline

Posted on February 28, 2024October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

AI-developed drugs that target proteins will become available in clinics within a couple of years.

“Clicks” BlackBerry keyboard

‘Clicks’ creates a BlackBerry style keyboard for iPhones

Posted on February 27, 2024October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Clicks has created the unthinkable addition of a BlackBerry-style clickable keyboard for the iPhone.

HMD Global

HMD Global lets users repair their own phones

Posted on February 26, 2024October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

HMD Global has joined brands letting owners repair their devices.

Solar, wind and pumped hydro will play the major roles in Australia's renewable future.

Innovation is the key to our renewable future

Posted on December 11, 2023October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

A goal of 82 percent renewable electricity by 2030 has become part of the Albanese Government’s climate target rhetoric.

Ric Richardson to crush malware

Posted on September 11, 2023October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Prolific Australian inventor Ric Richardson is back with an operating system modification that he says will stop malware and ransomware in its tracks.

How practical is Nokia’s self-repair smartphone?

Posted on May 1, 2023October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Nokia phone maker HMD Global has partnered with US self-repair firm iFixit to produce a handset you can fix yourself using supplied tools and replacement parts.

Mediatek chips will power satellite texting in Oz

Posted on March 6, 2023October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

MediaTek says its new microprocessors are up to the job of enabling everyday smartphones to stream to geostationary satellites 36,000km above the earth.

Telstra confirms satellite video calls for mobile

Posted on March 1, 2023October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Australians will make satellite video calls directly from their phones without needing a dish, says Telstra.

Bullitt to offer satellite texting in Australia

Posted on February 27, 2023October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

British rugged phone maker Bullitt plans to install its satellite connect platform in Australia, which will allow texting from anywhere in the country.

It’s time for new frontiers

Posted on September 15, 2022October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

I’ve been lucky to witness several decades of technological development including now the profound effect of the connected world and the internet.

Fibre loses its shine to Perth’s Pentanet

Posted on August 6, 2022October 4, 2025 by Chris Griffith

Perth-based internet provider Pentanet has matched the fastest residential NBN speeds with wide area wireless.

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