Tech Talk Column

The rise and fall of technology can happen incredibly quickly. What was the latest tech or ‘must have’ device yesterday can quickly become a footnote in history today. The latest announcement by BlackBerry is a classic example of this pro…

Here we are, days after a Federal election, and we still don’t know the result. The Australian Electoral Commission says that it could be a month before a result is known. Some seats that have candidates winning by a large margin have been decl…

One of my great frustrations when travelling on commercial aircraft is the amount of drama that is seemingly created by the mobile phones and electronic equipment on-board. The situation hit the ridiculous level a couple of years ago when I was trave…

Google recently hit the 2.4 million milestone. That is not a milestone in searches per second or revenue per hour but in how many kilometres their driverless cars have driven in fully autonomous mode. On 29 June 2011, Nevada was the first US State to…

I am often asked for my opinion on the biggest changes we have seen in the world around us in relation to technology. One of the areas that people will look back and laugh at in technological history is in relation to television. In the mid to late e…

One of the more common first-world problems that I encounter in the world of technology is the issue of travelling internationally and using a mobile phone. Last year there were 9.2 million Australians who left our shores for a short stay overseas. W…

I sold Dubbo’s first ever mobile phone on 26 July 1990 and, as you can imagine, phones have changed somewhat since then. Regardless of whether the phone was one of the handbag-style bag-phones or a car-phone or a super-sleek handheld phone (ini…