Key semiconductor manufacturer for smartphones Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 768G mobile platform, promising "next-level performance" and "truly global 5G".

Franchised parcel delivery service CouriersPlease is claiming an Australia-first with the launch of a self-service return from home solution for online shoppers looking to return items more conveniently, while complying with social-distancing rules imposed during the COVID 19 lockdown.

Telecommunications resilience in bushfire and disaster prone areas to ensure communities can stay connected during emergencies has been strengthened by a $37.1 million investment from the Australian Government.

For quite some time, people have written of "smart cities" and how throwing technology at a city somehow makes it smarter. David Heath disputes this saying the smartest city is the one that understand the needs of its people and the directions it wants to proceed in order to improve the lot of everyone. Only then should technology be considered.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is launching a project to develop Finland's first quantum computer at a cost in the region of A$40 million.

AWS has made its new Amazon Kendra search service generally available to customers. Announced in December 2019, Amazon Kendra is a machine-learning powered enterprise search service. The company claims "just a few clicks" is enough to index all internal data sources so users can make natural language queries.

Complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls from solar companies have halved since 2018, following a clampdown by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to reduce illegal telemarketing calls from the solar sector.

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