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Australian cleantech investors Anna and Simon Hackett campaign fundraises $205,000 for Climate 200 in three days

Simon and Anna Hackett with Rainee helping from the back seat A grassroots fundraising campaign set up by Australian cleantech investors Anna and Simon Hackett has raised more than $200,000 to support the Climate 200 initiative in just three days. Based on the belief...

Vic Air on cloud 9 with EBS & Dynamics NAV

Vic Air Supplies Financial Accountant Shelley Hughes Melbourne-based air conditioning company Vic Air Supplies has migrated its business systems to the cloud after replacing its old accounting system with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Vic Air Supplies http://vicair.com.au/ is an Australian owned, family-run business which...

Adelaide hosts myth-busting conference on Albinism this weekend

Albinism Fellowship members including AFA President Elizabeth Beales (second from right)About 100 individuals and family members affected by albinism will gather in Adelaide this weekend for a national conference about the causes, challenges and achievements of this often-misunderstood genetic condition. International...

MIMP delivers affordable gigabit-speed Internet services for businesses in Whyalla and Mount Gambier

MIMP CEO Allan AitchisonBusinesses in Whyalla and Mount Gambier can now access ultra-fast download speeds at affordable prices from $49.90 per month using the GigCity Internet service, deployed by MIMP connecting solutions. Launched earlier this month, the first regional deployments of...

Start-ups hold the key to the future of everything

Pottinger executive chair Nigel Lake will present at this week's Myriad Festival in Brisbane The Australian dream run of economic prosperity is at risk unless the nation supports start-ups to drive a new wave of innovation warns Nigel Lake, executive chair...

Australian eCommerce platform disrupter Ultra Commerce makes latest strategic acquisition for global growth

Ultra Commerce CEO Matthew HylandAfter raising more than $10 million for growth this year, Sydney-based Ultra Commerce has acquired US-based Slatwall Commerce to accelerate the global reach of its end-to-end digital commerce platform. In its second strategic acquisition of 2021, Ultra...

Underwriters Laboratories Selects Redflow for Flow Battery Research Program at Stress Engineering

Underwriters Laboratories, SES and Redflow at Stress Texas Facility 24th January 2022. Left to Right: Judy Jeevarajan, Ph.D., vice president and executive director of Electrochemical Safety Research Institute (ESRI), Underwriters Laboratories Inc.; Daniel Juarez-Robles, Ph.D., research scientist, ESRI, Underwriters Laboratories...

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Victron aims to cut into global markets with MultiPlus-II

Victron Energy BV Managing Director Matthijs Vader Global energy system specialist Victron Energy is expanding grid-connection approvals globally for its new MultiPlus-II battery inverter-charger, boosting the market for this robust unit that works both on and off-grid. Victron will also use the...

Details: In Albinism; / Published on 12 June 2017

Sammy McCombe and Lucy Carpenter

An initiative to highlight the achievements of people with albinism will tomorrow reach out through communities nation-wide as Australians celebrate the third World Albinism Awareness Day.

With a frequency of one in 17,000, more than 1300 Australians are affected by albinism, a genetic condition that arises from a lack of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes, typically causing pale skin, white hair and poor eyesight, often in the range of legal blindness.

Tomorrow, throughout Australia, children with albinism and their parents will use World Albinism Awareness Day to share with classmates their experiences of the world, why they avoid the sun and the challenges of limited vision.

Australians with albinism work in a wide range of professions, with members of the community including a State MP, a doctor, business owners, a professional singer and an astronomer.

In Geelong, two schoolgirls born with oculocutaneous albinism, Sammy McCombe, 12, and Lucy Carpenter, 14, recently launched an Instagram account to use fashion to raise awareness of the condition. The duo use it to model the latest clothing to show people that different is beautiful. Their Instagram account @Lucy_and_sammy has already attracted more than 4000 followers! “I have been very surprised at how many people loved our photos and gave us great feedback,” revealed Sammy (above, right).

Details: In Redflow; / Published on 24 May 2017

Andrew Kempster with Photon Farmer Jan BorgmanIn a Netherlands first, a Dutch dairy farm has deployed six Redflow ZBM2 zinc-bromine flow batteries to store self-produced solar energy that can support its milk production with sun-harvested energy.

Dubbed the Photon Farmer, the project aims to store solar energy for the farm’s use with six 10 kilowatt hour (kWh) ZBM2 batteries, the first Redflow deployment in theNetherlands.

Located at Vierakker in the eastern Netherlands, the 57.5-hectare family-owned farm currently stocks 110 diary cows. Due to public importance, the European Union is co-financing the deployment, which could revolutionise energy supply by supporting businesses to become energy independent.

ICL, a leading global producer of bromine and supplier of the advanced zinc-bromide electrolyte used in ZBM2 batteries, proposed Redflow for the Photon Farmer project because of the ground-breaking advantages of zinc-bromine flow batteries over older battery types such as lithium and lead-acid.

Redflow Global Sales Director Andrew Kempster, who is visiting the Netherlands this week for the project’s launch, said the Photon Farmer had produced energy with solar panels for several years. “The battery project is seeking the best business model for future local sustainable energy production, including energy storage in a battery,” he said. “Our zinc-bromine flow battery technology is well-suited for this project.”

Details: In Geek; / Published on 15 May 2017

Geek founder and chairman Jon Paior

Australia has dodged a bullet from the weekend worldwide onslaught of the WannaCry / WannaCrypt ransomware attack – for the moment, reports Geek Pty Ltd, an Australian firm that specialises in recovering criminally encrypted data.

During the past three days, the WannaCry ransomware epidemic has hit more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries, using vulnerabilities in older versions of Microsoft Windows to lock users' files and demand ransom to release them.

Geek founder and chairman Jon Paior, whose company has helped many Australian businesses escape from cryptolocking ransom demands, said the WannaCry onslaught had abated because a programmer had identified a ‘kill switch’ within the virus. “While that has stopped this iteration of WannaCry from accelerating its attack, it will be back,” he said.

“It’s very likely that someone will reverse engineer this ransomware worm to generate an updated version which you can guarantee will not contain a ‘kill switch’.”

Details: In Innovation; / Published on 15 May 2017

Plandroid developer Mike Garrett Adelaide airconditioning software company DelftRed Simulation Technology has seen international demand heat up during the past year, now comprising nearly 10 per cent of its total sales.

Since then, Plandroid sales have grown each year due to demand from domestic ducted air conditioning installation companies that want a quick and accurate way to design and quote systems.

DelftRed founder Mike Garrett said 2016 was the first year the company had received significant orders from overseas. “International demand for Plandroid has just taken off,” he said.