Top Streaming Boss Mayer Jumps From Disney – Now CEO Of TikTok
SAN FRANCISCO: Walt Disney’s top streaming executive, Kevin Mayer, will leave the entertainment and theme parks giant to become CEO of popular... Read More
Square Says Forget The Office
SAN FRANCISCO: Employees of Jack Dorsey-led Square have been told they can continue to work from home permanently, even after offices reopen.... Read More
FBI Cracks Encrypted iPhones
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Justice has skited it has retrieved information from a pair of iPhones linked to alleged terrorist without... Read More
‘Your Phones May Not Work’: Huawei Exec Warns Aust.
SYDNEY: Chinese networking giant Huawei has warned that Australian telecommunications could be severely impacted by the latest US technology bans on the... Read More
Pixel 5 To Revamp Motion Sense After Buyer Gripes
Google’s next flagship phone, the Pixel 5, is tipped to potentially lose motion sense tech featured within the Pixel 4, powering gesture... Read More
Vodafone Gain Extra $5 Billion for TPG Merger Amid COVID Pain
UPDATE – Shares in TPG were up over 4% on Wednesday morning, after analysts speculated TPG shareholders could gain a 60c –... Read More
Seven News Give Oppo Two Finger Salute
The Seven Network has given Chinese smartphone maker a big two finger salute. The network ran a story claiming that a local... Read More
Microsoft Blazes A Trail Of Acquisitions And Collaborations
HELSINKI/REDMOND/JERUSALEM: There’s much ado about Microsoft, with the software giant announcing a collaboration with Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia, along with several... Read More
Huawei Phone Pain Continues After US Ban
Chinese telco tech giant, Huawei, has continued to feel the pain of the US trade ban, this time with its semiconductor chip... Read More
Chinese Ministry Protests New US Anti-Huawei Rules
BEIJING: China’s Commerce Ministry has lodged a firm protest against the latest rules by the US against telecommunications networking giant Huawei. Beijing... Read More
Foxtel Set To Launch Streaming Service: 10K Hours On Offer
SYDNEY: Late out of the blocks, Foxtel – a joint operation between Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd and Telstra – has joined the... Read More
Bugger The Roads & Congestion Byron Bay Green Council, Backs 5G Conspiracy Theorists With Telstra Ban
Their roads are bad, traffic congestion is terrible, causing pollution for visitors, but despite these pressing issues the Greens dominated Byron Shire... Read More
New Dual Screen Surface Tablet Delayed
As supply issues cause problems for notebook manufacturers, Microsoft who has already delayed the launch of their Windows 10X OS code named... Read More
Digital Currency Arrest: Cash, Bitcoins Worth $120,000 Seized
SYDNEY: In a nascent criminal offence and potentially a first person to be charged with bitcoin offences, a 52-year-old Sydney woman has... Read More
Hot-Desking ‘Dead’: Many Home Workers Spurn Return To City
SYDNEY: Many Australian office workers who have spent recent weeks and months working from home are declining to return to office buildings,... Read More
Westpac Admits 23mil Breaches In Money-Laundering Case
SYDNEY: Westpac has formally admitted 23 million breaches of anti-money laundering laws, due to failures in its transaction reporting and record-keeping. Its... Read More
Intel Invests In Chinese Chips
SHANGHAI: Intel Capital, the venture arm of chipmaker Intel, has invested in two Chinese start-ups in the semiconductor sector. The investment comes... Read More
Teardown Reveals Huawei Forced To Use Unknown Chinese Parts After US Security Ban
This week Chinese Company Huawei who have been deemed a ‘security risk’ in Australia, was trying to flog a new generation of... Read More
Cisco Revenue Hits Bad Patch
SAN FRANCISCO: Cisco has reported better-than-expected Q3 earnings despite revenue dropping some eight percent year on year and steeper than the four... Read More
China Deal ‘No Deal’, Says Digicel
SYDNEY: Jamaica-based mobile phone carrier Digicel Group has denied an Australian newspaper report that it is planning to sell its Pacific unit... Read More
Xero Swings To $5 Profit But Warns It Won’t Last
AUCKLAND: Largely Australian-based but NZ-owned accounting software house Xero has recorded an NZ $3.3 million full-year profit – it’s first – but... Read More
NBN Revenue Hits $2.8 Billion As Seven Million Target Looms
CANBERRA: NBN Co has reported a 38 percent revenue increase in Q3 to $2.8 billion, driven by strong demand spurred by the... Read More
Some Restaurants, Pubs Open Today – But Little To Cheer
CANBERRA: “This is a tough day for Australia,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said yesterday – and he wasn’t kidding, as the Australian... Read More
Samsung Galaxy A51: Q1 Best Selling Phone
Samsung Electronics’ decision to invest in its mid-range portfolio last year appears to have paid dividends, with the company’s Galaxy A51 taking... Read More
Chinese Smartphone Shipments To Vendors Rebound By 17pc
SHANGHAI: Smartphone shipments to vendors in China rose 17 percent in April, compared to the same month a year ago. According to... Read More
Harvey Norman & Optus Dump Oppo
As Australians turn on, or off Chinese brands it appears Optus via their partnership with Harvey Norman have moved to dump the... Read More
Ransomware Study Shows Half Oz Biz Hit – Pay-Offs Double Cost
SYDNEY: Cybersecurity vendor Sophos has revealed the findings of its global survey, The State of Ransomware 2020, which shows paying cybercriminals to... Read More
Contactless Payment Systems Sweep In Bid To Stop Coronavirus
MELBOURNE: Spurred on by the Covid 19 outbreak, some 10.8pc of Australians are pointedly using non-bank contactless mobile payment services such as... Read More
Alcatel Release $199 ‘3L’ With 48MP Triple Camera
Alcatel has thrown down the gauntlet against rival phone makers and released its most value-added sub $200 smartphone in Australia, a few... Read More
Tracing App Now ‘Fully Functional’
CANBERRA: Deputy chief medical officer Paul Kelly says the Federal Government’s coronavirus tracing app is working, after all states and territories signed... Read More
Parliament Inquiry Urges Plan To Make 5G Gear In Australia
CANBERRA: The parliamentary inquiry into 5G in Australia has tabled its report, calling on the Morrison Government to investigate how 5G gear... Read More
D-Link Launches Range Of 5G Solutions
D-Link has launched a range of 5G solutions, including the DWP-1020 5G Outdoor CPE to maximise signal reception, the DWR-978 5G Wi-Fi... Read More
Google’s Pixel 4a Tipped To Launch 5th June
A leak from Vodafone Germany has pointed to the new Google Pixel 4a being launched on the 5th of June, following Google’s... Read More
Samsung Tops 5G Phone Shipments in Q1
Samsung Electronics has topped first-quarter shipments for 5G smartphones in 2020, according to market tracker Strategy Analytics. The company is closely tracked... Read More
Volunteer Redundancy Deal Off
Meanwhile, in New York, IBM has issued an ultimatum that there’ll be no more voluntary redundancies, after getting a poor response from... Read More
Aussie Ag-Tech Start-Up Scores $11 Million Funding Deal
SYDNEY: Australian agricultural technology company, The Yield Technology Solutions, has secured an $11 million funding round led by Yamaha’s investment arm Yamaha... Read More
Former Apple Oz Exec Launches Start-Up With Focus On HomeKit
SYDNEY: Justin Stuckey, former business development manager for iPod and iPad with Apple Australia, has formed a company, Domotic, claimed to be... Read More
Xiaomi’s Flagship Mi 10 Pro & Mi 10 Launch In Local Market
Xiaomi’s flagship smartphones from its Mi 10 series – the Mi 10 8GB + 256GB (RRP: $1,699) and the Mi 10 Pro... Read More
Motorola Updates Foldable Razr From User Feedback
Motorola’s revamped foldable Razr is set to get a suite of new functions in response to “consumer feeback”, with the roll-out of... Read More
Google Pixel Users Report Black Screen Problems
Users of Google Pixel smartphones have reported problems after overnight charging, where the screen becomes black and unresponsive. One user on Reddit... Read More
iPhone 12 Pro Max Tipped To Be Bumper 6.7”
Apple’s upcoming flagship, the iPhone 12 Pro Max, is rumoured to be its biggest yet, boasting a bumper 6.7-inch screen with 120Hz... Read More
Cheap Chinese Phone Face New Threat From No Other Than Apple
Cheap Chinese phone brands are facing a new threat, Apple according to sources in Japan. Tokyo-based research company Fomalhaut Techno Solutions conducted... Read More
Leaked: New Ultra-Powerful Samsung Phone
Korean electronics maker, Samsung, has reportedly been caught out publicly testing a radical new smartphone, with ultra-powerful capacity tipped for 2021 at... Read More
Leaked: Lenovo’s First Gaming Smartphone
[Image Source: XDA Developers] Promotional images for Lenovo’s first gaming smartphone (dubbed the ‘Lenovo Legion’) appear to have leaked online, revealing a... Read More
Huawei Tipped To ReLaunch Updated P30 Pro
Huawei is expected to launch a 2020 version of its P30 Pro, which will provide a range of updates to the flagship... Read More
Aussie E-Sports Operators Face Match-Fixing Charges
MELBOURNE: Five organisers of e-sports in Australia have been charged with match-fixing offences which, if proved, carry penalties of up to 10... Read More
Q1 Global Smartphone Demand Lowest On Record
Global smartphone shipments have reportedly dropped 17% year-on-year in Q1Y20 – the industry’s worst quarterly performance on record according to research firm... Read More
Samsung Looks To Kickstart Smartphone Sales With New Note 20 & Galaxy Fold 2
Retailers in Australia are set to benefit from a new product launch period opening up in September with Samsung tipped to roll... Read More
Afterpay Surges 24pc Following Stake Sale To China’s Tencent
SYDNEY: Shares in Melbourne-based Afterpay leapt almost 24 percent on the ASX yesterday, following the weekend announcement that Chinese giant Tencent has... Read More
Covid-19 Impact Still To Hit Oz Business: Report
CANBERRA: Some 72 percent of Australian busnesses expect reduced cash flow to have an adverse impact on their business over the next... Read More