South Australia will get the world’s largest lithium ion battery to store renewable energy, with the State Government awarding contracts to US sustainable energy group Tesla and French energy company Neoen to deliver the project. Tesla boss Elon Musk has promised to deliver the project within 100 days or it’s free.

The chief of Australian battery and energy storage company Redflow, Simon Hackett, has welcomed the announcement that the South Australian Government has awarded a contract to deploy a 129 megawatt hour (MWh) battery farm to help solve the State’s power problems.

Australia's eftpos payments network has completed an industry-wide technology infrastructure transformation, racking up its two billionth transaction across its Hub network.

Mastercard and Transport NSW have launched the first Australian contactless ticketing payment using Mastercard’s contactless cards or smartphone mobile wallets.

New research from Telsyte and Genesys reveals that despite significant advances in AI, chatbots and omnichannel contact centres, Aussies still have an overwhelming preference for a real human contact to “sort things out”.

ISP Internode attributes long-term investment in its brand and services as part of the reason for the company achieving the highest overall customer satisfaction scores in the Internet satisfaction survey conducted by consumer advocacy group CHOICE.

Plans by NBN Co to implement dynamic line management on its fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-basement connections in early 2018 have been termed as something akin to putting lipstick on a pig by the former chief executive of NBN Co, Mike Quigley.

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