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The amenity on the moon – Tech Talk 221

Tech Talk Column

Amenity. The main driver for deciding where to live is that all-encompassing term ‘amenity’ which can really mean what you want it to mean. I looked at a population heat map in Australia from the turn of last century and the country was smattered…

2020

Media Release: EV display at the Amusu Theatre in Manildra

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Media release EV Display at Amusu Theatre in Manildra on Sunday 25 October All members of the public are invited to an EV display by DEVIOUS at the Amusu Theatre in Manildra this coming Sunday, 25 October. A range of electric vehicles will be on disp…

2020

The latest iPhone – Tech Talk Column 220

Tech Talk Column

A moth navigates by transverse orientation. It keeps the dominant light source at a certain position in relation to their body to guide them. When we turn on a light on our verandah, those same moths keep flying around the light until they finally me…

2020

Technology has limitations – Tech Talk Column 219

Tech Talk Column

I don’t sing. I am not against songs or music but I believe it is important you know your limitations. Holding a tune is not a talent I have so I don’t wish to subject people around me to listening to terribly out of tune singing. Similarly with …

2020

The need for Internet speed – Tech Talk Column 218

Tech Talk Column

Futurist. It conjures up the image of a person sitting in a darkened room with two hands placed on a large orb floating over a table with an unsuspecting victim waiting to hear if they should move to Toledo. In this context, possibly a better term mi…

2020

Do What You Always Did = Get What You Always Got

Small Business Ru!e of the Month

As we slowly come out of enforced COVID-19 lockdowns, it is a great time to re-evaluate your business and question if you are thinking critically about your business…or if you are just going to return to doing things the same as you have always…

2020

Is AI going to prove to be painful? Tech Talk Column 217

Tech Talk Column

Before COVID-19 hit the world, there were six aged care facilities in the region that I would regularly visit – sometimes with one of my children – to deliver a presentation on technology or perform poetry for the residents. On some occas…

2020

Media Release: axxis adds another electric vehicle (EV) to their fleet

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Media release axxis adds another electric vehicle (EV) to their fleet Owner of axxis, Mathew Dickerson, has been a progressive advocate of hybrid and electric vehicles for more than fifteen years and has used these vehicles personally; in his busines…

2020

Media Release: EV Display at Amusu Theatre in Manildra on Sunday 25 October

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2020

The irony of Newcastle reducing coal dependence – Tech Talk Column 216

Tech Talk Column

In September 1797, Lieutenant John Shortland went in the direction of Port Stephens searching for runaway convicts. He stumbled across what he later described as “a very fine coal river” and, in one of those ultimate moments of praising y…

2020

Life is a compromise

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Every day we make decisions that involve some form of compromise. We have competing interests that we have to weigh up and then we make a decision. I like the idea of staying in bed all day and catching up on some movies but my kids need someone to g…

2020

The Holy Grail of solar panels – Tech Talk Column 215

Tech Talk Column

In raising our four children, my wife and I hope we have managed to achieve many things but, at the very least, we hope we have taught them to have a sprinkling of scepticism about the world around them. When something seems just way too good to be t…

2020

Media Release: axxis wins Australia-wide sales competition

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Media release axxis wins Australia-wide sales competition COVID-19 has impacted different businesses in different ways. Worldwide shipments of smartphones reduced by 14 per cent which created a huge challenge for retailers in the mobile phone space. …

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 214

Tech Talk Column

Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…sorry, it’s not Superman. As much as many people like the idea of a guy flying around with his underpants over his pants protecting us, it is much more likely that if…

2020

Service Then Loyalty Then Success

Small Business Ru!e of the Month

Focus on making your initial customer service the absolute best in the market. This service will lead to incredibly loyal clients, and your business will succeed as a natural result of this. Cisco Systems is a prime example of an incredibly successfu…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 213

Tech Talk Column

I was looking through some photos recently and stumbled across an old photo of me from 1995. It was a newspaper clipping that had me with my head down on my keyboard sound asleep. No, it wasn’t a photo at the end of a night of hard-core gaming….

2020

Media Release: Dubbo residents outstrip the Aussie thirst for iPhones

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Media release Dubbo residents outstrip the Aussie thirst for iPhones COVID-19 has hit sales of smartphones with a 14 per cent reduction in worldwide shipments for the fourth quarter of the 2020 financial year. 285 million smartphones were shipped fro…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 212

Tech Talk Column

Pick your extravagance of choice. Chocolate, coffee, fruit, whatever. If I offered you a free single serving of your indulgence immediately OR a full day with free access to your preference if you went without for a week, would you wait for the great…

2020

Fairfax Tech Talk Column 211

Tech Talk Column

I started selling computers in 1989. Desktop computers. It took me three years to sell my first notebook. Despite the fact that desktops only hold a market share position of 22.6 per cent now, thirty years ago it was rare to see someone use a noteboo…

2020