Joseph Lam

Joseph Lam is a technology and property reporter at The Australian. He joined the national daily in 2019 after he cut his teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

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TELCOTechnology

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 17, 2023: Managing Director Optus Networks, Lambo Kanagaratnam appears before Senate inquiry following the November 8 outage, at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Senior Optus executive follows Bayer Rosmarin out the door

Optus has lost another senior executive, just four months after the national outage, with networks managing director Lambo Kanagaratnam departing.

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start-upsTechnology

Anni chief technology officer Timothy Smith, chief product office Anna Lee-Renwick and chief executive Diranne Lee-Renwick.

Micro consults, AI cybersecurity now million-dollar ideas

An Australian start-up selling answers from real people in the age of ChatGPT has raised $1m to expand into an e-commerce marketplace.

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tech chiefsTechnology

ADF’s plan for human and AI troops

The Australian Defence Force has big plans for AI, where the technology can work alongside human soldiers and even operate autonomously.

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telecommunicationsTechnology

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 21: Pedestrians walk past an Optus store in the CBD on November 21, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. Optus' CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin stepped down on Monday after an extended outage last week caused millions of Australians to be disconnected from the network, with no access to emergency numbers for hours. The outage followed a hack that saw millions of customers' data shared online last year. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

ACMA fines Optus $1.5m for database failures

The nation’s second largest telco has failed give almost 200,000 customer details to an emergency database used to contact people during floods and bushfires.

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Technology

An NBN Co. technician handles hardware in a fiber distribution cabinet during the installation of fiber-to-the-building connections in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. NBN says it's aiming to increase annual revenue more than five-fold to A$5.4 billion and be cash flow positive in 2021. Photographer: Cole Bennetts/Bloomberg via Getty Images

NBN proposes five times faster internet at ‘no extra cost’

NBN Co wants to turbo charge the speeds of its three fastest tiers at no extra wholesale cost but some critics are concerned consumers will still have to pay more.

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chatbotTechnology

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is chief executive of Xero

Xero chatbot chases invoices as AI spreads its wings

Cloud accounting giant Xero has unveiled a chatbot which can chase unpaid invoices and even charge clients a late fee, which it will introduce across its platforms later this year.

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Lay-offsTechnology

General photo of an Optus store in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (AAP Image/Luis Ascui) NO ARCHIVING

End of the O-Team: Optus shuts down its smart home unit

Former Optus chief Kelly Bayer Rosmarin had big plans for tech and smart connectivity but the latest twist in a disastrous spell for the telco is the shuttering of its smart home team.

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EFFICIENCYTechnology

Tech chiefs reveal how to leave your staff rosters to AI

This tech won’t forget who’s away, who can’t work nights and to give part-timers a minimum of 12 hours a week. Make your life as a manager a whole lot easier.

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ResultsCompanies

QBM - Nextdc boss Craig Scroggie has seen the value of his data centre company surge by billions of dollars as demand for streaming services and other online services surge during the pandemic shutdown. Craig at the data centre at Fortitude Valley. Pic Mark Cranitch.

NextDC to build AI factory as losses soar

NextDC has announced plans to build Australia’s first AI factory as the company reported that losses had grown tenfold over the six months to the end of last year.

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reviewGadgets

BlueAnt's newest soundbar for desktops, the Soundblade. Picture: Supplied

Make some noise for the Soundblade

For those who love to listen to music on their laptop or desktop, this really loud soundbar from BlueAnt might have legs.

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