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Research group TrendForce’s latest research finds that in Q3 2024 smartphone sales surged, with the launch of flagship models by major brands propelling global smartphone production to a quarter on quarter increase of 7%.

COMPANY NEWS: 2024 -  Capgemini announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire D+I, a leading product design and development consultancy in Australia.

GUEST RESEARCH:  My Muscle Chef offers smart nutrition to everyday Australians through its range of high-quality ready-made meals and on-the-go snacks. Since launching in 2013, the company has grown from a small three-person kitchen to one of Australia’s best food manufacturing facilities.

Highly-automated staging environment allows teams to quickly and efficiently develop and deploy multiple store builds from a single dashboard, minimising deployment risks and disruptions

BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), a leading Open SaaS ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established B2C and B2B brands, today announced an exclusive tech partner integration of StagingPro, a comprehensive staging and deployment suite that gives enterprise merchants and agency developers a collaborative, near-production level environment to easily test and deploy code to a BigCommerce store.

New Zealand competition regulator The Commerce Commission has granted authorisation to allow industry association the News Publishers’ Association of New Zealand (NPA) to collectively negotiate with Meta and Google regarding the terms and conditions on which participating news media companies’ content is displayed on digital platforms operated by Meta and Google, for a 10 year period.

Australian commercial small satellite manufacturer Fleet Space has partnered with Konica Minolta to implement 3D printers from 3D Systems to support “groundbreaking innovation”, which aims to bring manufacturing for the space, strategic, and mineral exploration industries back onshore.

Western Australia-based 3D metal printer manufacturer Aurora Labs has announced the completion of its Milestone 4 technology and printing output and Technology Development Pathway.

GUEST OPINION by Ravi Rajendran, Vice President Asia Pacific, Cohesity: Corporate IT teams should make the most of Australia’s traditional January slowdown because they’ll need all their energy to deal with the challenges that lie ahead in 2021.

The global PC market is expected to fall by 3.4% in 2020, with PC shipments in the first quarter of 2020 falling by more than 25% sequentially and 10% annually due to the coronavirus outbreak affecting both the channel and supply chains in China.

The coronavirus outbreak will severely affect China’s smart devices market including smartphone and PC shipments, according to analyst firm Canalys which says it has dramatically revised previous forecasts of a 7% decline in smartphone shipments to a 40% to-50% drop for smartphones and 20% for PCs - with the proviso that the situation recovers to pre-outbreak levels by the end of February.

Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and OMRON Corporation are to conduct joint field trials using 5G at their plants and other production sites.

Ericsson is planning to build its first fully-automated smart factory in the US to produce advanced antenna system radios for rapid 5G deployments.

Australian semiconductor IoT start-up Morse Micro has secured $23.8 million in Series A funding to take its ultra low power Wi-Fi HaLow chip to mass production.

Australian battery manufacturer Redflow has decided to move the manufacturing headquarters for its zinc-bromine flow batteries from North America to Thailand.

After 1 year of solid development, the Sydney based start-up OrionVM has launched its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform into live production today (1st April 2011). Founded in early 2010 by three young like minded individuals, they had a dream of being the fastest Cloud Computing platform in Australia. One year and many sleepless nights later, they have done just that.