Thuraya XT-PRO satellite phone
01 May, 2015Thuraya Telecommunications Company has launched what it claims is the industry's most advanced satellite phone, the Thuraya XT-PRO. Targeted at professional users across a range of market sectors including government, energy, media and NGOs, the Thuraya XT-PRO features built-in GPS, BeiDou and Glonass for highest accuracy and added security in every region.
You literally can't wear your heart on your sleeve
01 May, 2015In one of this week's more interesting discoveries, Apple Watch sensors appear to be negatively affected by the presence of heavy arm tattooing, also known as sleeves.
Mint mPOS mobile payment solution
30 April, 2015Mint Payments Limited has launched Mint mPOS, a new mobile payments solution that converts a smartphone or tablet into an instant wireless EFTPOS machine - providing business owners with fast, simple and painless payments for their services or products.
Nissan NP300 Navara ute
30 April, 2015Nissan has announced the Australian release of the NP300 Navara. The NP300 will be available in four grades: DX, RX, ST and ST-X, and offered in 27 variants including choices in: drive (four-wheel and rear-wheel), cabin (dual, king and single), chassis (pick-up utility and cab chassis), engine (twin-turbo diesel, turbo diesel and petrol) and transmission (six-speed manual and seven-speed automatic).
Brisbane Truck Show rides again
30 April, 2015The Brisbane Truck Show is on again. Held every two years, the event is organised by the Commercial Vehicle Industry Association of Queensland (CVIAQ) and is the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the premier event in Australia for the transport industry and showcases the latest in heavy vehicles, technology, engineering and innovation.
Drive the road to success with data analytics
29 April, 2015 by Matt Minor, Director - Marketing & Product Management, Navman Australia Pty LtdHow often have you relied on your intuition to make important business decisions? Have you ever felt nervous and unsure about the decision and wondered how your company will benefit? Now imagine using clear, actionable data to make intelligent decisions and enhance your company's operations for today and tomorrow with a click of a button - this is possible with analytics. By using analytics, you can sort through data and pull out the important details to inform intelligent business decisions.
Crowdsourced data - Satan, saviour or scapegoat?
24 April, 2015As we inch ever closer to comprehensive vehicle-to-vehicle communication, transportation organisations around the world are investigating the use of data drawn from smartphones to deliver real-time traffic information.
World Safety Day - 28 April
24 April, 2015World Safety Day is celebrated on the 28th of April around the world as a day where the occupational health and safety of workers is recognised. Workers, employers and governments take this day to remember and prioritise the importance of a health and safety culture.
What your customers want
22 April, 2015A recent survey of over 8000 field service customers has uncovered how industry technology trends impact on the decision to hire plumbers, exterminators, cleaning contractors and other residential service providers. Results show that the residential services market is ripe for businesses that adopt integrated software and why those that don't will get left behind.
Caution urged when using free Wi-Fi
22 April, 2015Free Wi-Fi 'hotspots' are now everywhere, including cafes, shopping centres, hotels and many other public locations. Laboratories Credit Union (LCU) has issued a warning for users: just because it is free and is provided by a respected organisation, it does not mean that it is safe. When you use public Wi-Fi, it makes it easy for scammers to hack your mobile devices or infect them with viruses.
Traffic Monitor+ network benchmarking app
22 April, 2015Traffic Monitor+ for Android devices is now available. The ad-free app enables Australian Android users to test the quality of their network provider and optimise smartphone usage by showing the best signal spots on a map.
Have telcos overlooked a $1.7bn mobile phone market?
21 April, 2015Australian consumers now have a $10 billion annual mobile phone bill. Service providers are understandably focused on wooing high-spending, data-hungry smartphone users, but there's a long-forgotten group of traditional mobile users with little interest in touch screens, apps and 4G networks. They make the odd call, send the odd text and quietly pay telcos over $1.7 billion a year, the latest telecommunications data from Roy Morgan Research shows.
Australia's bankruptcies fall 11%
17 April, 2015The Australian Financial Security Authority has released the personal insolvency activity statistics for the March quarter 2015 and the news is good.
Fluke 805 FC vibration meter
17 April, 2015The Fluke 805 FC Vibration Meter is a portable multifunction vibration screening tool that provides quantifiable information on the bearing and overall health of motors and other rotating equipment and shares that data in real time via Fluke Connect.
App tackles 'morning after' drink driving
16 April, 2015The UK-based Road Safety Academy GB has launched a new app that enables drivers to calculate roughly when the alcohol they have drunk will have passed through their body. The 'Morning After Calculator' aims to help assess whether motorists are potentially still over the limit after a night out.
