1300 Australia To Clean Up Unfair Terms And Refund Excessive Fees
1300 Australia has agreed to amend its current and future contracts to ensure that terms are fair, and will refund part of... Read More
Canberra Spooks Concerned About Govt Home Workers
CANBERRA: The Australian Cyber Security Centre – part of Canberra’s spooky Australian Signals Directorate – is urging government departments and agencies that... Read More
Woolies Calls For Tap-And-Go Limit From $100 To $250
CANBERRA: High-powered reps from government departments are sitting down with supermarket organisers and supply-chain operators in a bid to prevent the current... Read More
Yes, Some Industries Still Hiring
SYDNEY: Australia is certainly buckling under the coronavirus pandemic, leaving thousands of jobs on the scrap heap. Treasury estimates that more than... Read More
IT Spend Set To Plunge As Virus Hits Asia-Pacific
SYDNEY/SINGAPORE: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to hamper economic activities around the globe, impacting businesses and industries at nearly every level, and IT... Read More
CBA runs AI Over 230,000 Words Of ASIC Regulation
SYDNEY: The Commonwealth Bank has completed trials of an artificial intelligence tool first piloted in the UK that aims to help the... Read More
AU Govt Moves To Ban Web Sites
CANBERRA: Web sites that host graphic material following a terror attack are to be blocked by Internet providers for around five days... Read More
Big Data & AI Needed To Manage CCV-19 Induced Data Traffic
SYDNEY: Nokia has analysed the impact of social isolation measures on network traffic and says to cope with the traffic surge, telcos... Read More
Apple Watch Gets A Trump Deal
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO: The Trump Administration has granted Apple a tariff waiver request for Apple Watch smartwatches. The exemption will enable Apple to import the finished... Read More
Candice Lester Gone, As Huawei Tries To Jack Up Demand For New P40 Chinese Smartphone
Candice Lester has gone as Consumer Communications Manager at Huawei after a less than successful launch of the Companies P30 smartphone, now... Read More
Online Scammers Exploit Coronavirus Outbreak
CANBERRA: As Australians are now working from home in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, they are increasingly vulnerable to... Read More
Supermarkets Take Online Operations On War Footing
SYDNEY: Aussie supermarkets are getting ready to shift their online sales and deliveries operations up a gear in a coordinated war footing... Read More
Global Demand For Laptops, Network Gear, Chips Zooms
SEOUL/TOKYO: The growing number of work-from-homers across the globe is fuelling a huge surge in demand for laptops, network peripherals and supply-chain... Read More
UK ISPs Resist Free Broadband
LONDON: Internet service providers in the UK are coming under pressure to provide free services to help people during the coronavirus outbreak.... Read More
Plug Pulled On Private Aussie Visa Processing System
CANBERRA: The Federal Government has suggested that privatisation of Australia’s visa processing system may not have been one of its best decisions.... Read More
BlackBerry Taps Local Leadership
SYDNEY: BlackBerry has overhauled its local leadership team as the company brings its Cylance artificial intelligence platform and BlackBerry unified endpoint management (UEM)... Read More
Huawei Takes Advantage Of Coronavirus To Jack Up Struggling OZ Channel
SYDNEY: Huawei is making plans to launch new networking equipment, including Wi-Fi 6 products, in a bid to turn around the Chinese... Read More
MyGov Crashes As Thousands Flock For Dole Payments
CANBERRA: Australia‘s MyGov Web site came to a shuddering halt yesterday as thousands sought to get help from Centrelink amid the coronavirus... Read More
Tech Companies Combine Forces To Fight COVID1
WASHINGTON: The White House has announced an unprecedented collaboration between US tech giants as they merge forces to fight the coronavirus. The... Read More
MS Teams Users To Hit 44mil.
SEATTLE: Everyone has left the Microsoft office, but the lights are still on as the software and services giant reaps the benefits... Read More
Global Server Revenue Takes A Tumble: Gartner Report
SAN FRANCISCO: Research firm Gartner says global server revenue grew 5.1 percent in Q4 2019, while shipments increased 11.7 percent. But the... Read More
ZipTel Swallows Fintech Outfit
SYDNEY: ZipTel has agreed to buy 100 percent of a fintech outfit dubbed Douugh – presumably pronounced “dough”, rather than “doo-ugg”. Once... Read More
NBN Co Pulls Half-Price Offer
MELBOURNE: NBN Co is pulling its offer of half-price Internet for a year for long-term holdouts to its network after getting a... Read More
Oz Reputation Sliding, As Bribery, Corruption Figures Spiral: Deloitte
SYDNEY: Australia is among a group of Asia-Pacific nations that is likely to see a high new spike in bribery and corruption ... Read More
Telstra Agrees To Stall Sackings, Plans 5G Rollout Ramp-Up
MELBOURNE: Telstra says it has put on hold its plan announced in June 2018 to shed 8000 jobs and will accelerate its... Read More
Minister Calls For Crackdown On Panic-Buying ‘Parasites’
CANBERRA: Coronavirus panic buying is being aggravated by social media and Australia is in no danger of running out of food, says... Read More
Global Smartphone Sales Collapse – With Worse To Come
SAN FRANCISCO: Global smartphones sales have collapsed in their biggest fall since the invention of the device, according to research firm Strategy... Read More
Smart Charging: Top-5 Innovative Chargers 2020
Innovative companies like Belkin, Crest and Cygnett have created a wide variety of chargers to power your devices as quickly as possible.... Read More
Covid-19 Set To Hit Worldwide Semiconductor Market In 2020
SAN FRANCISCO: The coronavirus disease 2019 is seriously affecting the worldwide semiconductor business, which is expected to take a hit of US$25.8... Read More
What’s Australia’s NBN worth? Nowhere Near Its Cost: Report
CANBERRA: If the government of the day wants to sell off the NBN sometime in the future, it will pretty quickly discover... Read More
NBN Co Offers Service Providers Up To 40pc Bandwidth Boost
SYDNEY: In a bid to ease any network strain caused by people working in isolation from home, NBN Co yesterday said it... Read More
Baffling Optus Outage Hits NSW
SYDNEY: So much for working from home, at least for Optus mobile users … The Optus mobile network yesterday suffered a severe... Read More
IT Cops A Hit As PM Closes Door To Non-Aussie Citizens
CANBERRA: Australia is implementing a new travel ban preventing all non-Australian citizens and residents from coming to the country, due to the coronavirus... Read More
COVID-19 Hits Global Internet Speeds, Australia Flat
Despite the coronavirus outbreak putting pressure on global networks, Australia’s internet speeds have stayed relatively flat over the past few weeks. Speedtest.net... Read More
Microsoft Teams Adds New Features As Usage Surges
Microsoft Teams has added new features to aid in working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, as daily usage skyrockets and the... Read More
Facebook Gives $100m To Small Biz To Offset Impact Of Coronavirus
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook plans to award US$100 million in cash grants and ad credits for up to 30,000 small businesses in more... Read More
Samsung Chip Demand To Jump
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics says it expects higher demand and limited supply for computer chips. The demand comes even though the coronavirus pandemic... Read More
Covid 19-Affected Travelers May Qualify For Refunds: ACCC
SYDNEY: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says that consumers may be entitled to refunds on flights, events and other travel services... Read More
Call Centre Chaos Breaks Out
SYDNEY: Telstra CEO Andy Penn has told Australians not to bother ringing a call centre if they have problems with mobile reception... Read More
Tech Stocks Take Another Tumble
SYDNEY: Telstra was hit with a whack of more than eight percent on its share price yesterday as the ASX tumbled again,... Read More
Morrison To Offer Stimulus No. 2 In Bit To Avoid Rout
CANBERRA: As financial markets suffered another day of panic selling yesterday, the Australian Government flagged a potential second round of stimulus, only... Read More
Apple Plans Entry-Level IPhone
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is reportedly planning to launch a new 5.5-inch entry-level iPhone. The small device, which has been rumoured for some time,... Read More
Telstra Offers Unlimited Data …
SYDNEY: In a bid to alleviate problems associated with the coronavirus pandemic which is forcing people forced to work from home, Telstra... Read More
Tech Looks On The Bright Side As COVID19 Boosts Service Demands
SAN FRANCISCO/SYDNEY: Shares in major technology companies may have tanked for the moment, along with the rest of the stockmarket but, to... Read More
NBN, The Beers Are On You, Bevan
SYDNEY: Several days ago, tech entrepreneur and Superloop founder Bevan Slattery, pictured page 1, wrote an open letter to Prime Minister, Scott... Read More
Coronavirus Spurs Aussie Demand For Speedier NBN
CANBERRA/SYDNEY: Onset of the coronavirus crisis – and the ensuing drive for employees to work from home – has seen the Federal... Read More
Samsung Breaks Through 1GB/Second Write Speed For Smartphone Storage
Samsung has begun mass production on new 512GB embedded universal flash storage (eUFS) 3.1 for flagship smartphones, which it bills as the... Read More
A Favourite Telstra Smartphone Brand Slammed Again As Corrupt
One of Telstra’s favourite smartphone suppliers Chinese Company ZTE is again under investigation by the US Justice Department in a new ‘bribes... Read More
New Devialet Custom Speakers To Take On Bose & Sonos
Custom installers are being offered a deal that could see them dumping integrated Bose and 16bit speakers for an all new 24bit... Read More
Virus Panic Tipped To Hit Economy
SYDNEY: Accounting outfit KPMG has tipped the coronavirus to result in an 0.9 percent hit to the Australian economy in 2020, with... Read More