Samsung Execs Hold Crisis Meeting
Samsung Electronics’ top executives have held crisis talks to discuss ways to deal with the worsening global business environment that has followed... Read More
Telstra Slashes Payphone Prices, Enables Boxes To Receive Calls
Telstra has greatly reduced prices for calls from its 15,000 pay-phones and will enable its publicly accessible payphones to receive calls, a... Read More
Aussies Hit By Huge Google 17-Hour Outage
Google has confirmed that many Australian users were affected by a major outage that yesterday swept its US connections, especially in the... Read More
Samsung Moves To AMD Processors For Smartphone Gaming Boost
They were in big demand at last week’s Computex show now US Company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has scored orders from Samsung... Read More
Google Cloud Outage Raises Stadia Doubts
Google has suffered another major global disruption of its Google Cloud Platform, its third incident in four months, which caused outages in... Read More
Huawei Scale Back Production As Bans Take Toll
Huawei’s goal of becoming the world’s top-selling smartphone maker has been dealt a significant blow by trade and supply bans that have... Read More
TCL Ramp Up Flexible Panel Production
Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL, who is the parent licensee of Australia’s third-biggest smartphone seller Alcatel, is gearing up its flexible OLED production.... Read More
Alcatel Score Big Following Liverpool European Champions Win
Australia’s #3 smartphone brand Alcatel appear to have scored a major win with their sponsorship of Premier League side Liverpool who over... Read More
Ex-Telstra CEO Joins Vodafone Group Board
Vodafone Group has appointed former Telstra CEO David Thodey as a non-executive director effective from the start of September — subject to... Read More
Crucial WWD Week For Apple Double Fold iPhone/iPad Device & New Software Tipped
This week is shaping up to be a crucial week for Apple with the Companies World Wide Developer Conference set to open... Read More
Vodafone-TPG Case, Court Propose September Hearing
TPG and Vodafone’s appeal against the ACCC blocking their $15 billion merger may be decided by the end of the year, after... Read More
Oppo Take On Samsung With $1499 5G Phone
Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has released its first 5G phone in Australia, taking on Samsung’s recently launched Galaxy S10 5G. The Oppo Reno... Read More
Galaxy Note 10 Tipped To Ditch Headphone Jack, No Buttons
Rumours are circulating that Samsung’s upcoming Note 10 could ditch its 3.5mm headphone jack and all physical buttons, leaving the device to... Read More
JB Hi-Fi Launching New Huawei P30 Lite Tomorrow
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has launched a slimmed down version of its flagship P30 into the Australian market, despite global uncertainty over... Read More
Thorn Group Field Acquisition Offers
Radio Rentals owner, Thorn Group, has reportedly attracted acquisition offers from several interested parties, a year after being penalised $2 million for... Read More
Optus Goes Agile, Cuts 200 Jobs
Optus has confirmed it’s axing around 200 jobs from its consumer business division, just hours after Telstra flagged 6,000 jobs cuts by... Read More
Samsung Pulls Update After Bugs Cripple S10
An update to Samsung’s S10 smartphone that was supposed to improve stability has instead crashed devices around the world and rendered some... Read More
Telstra To Announce 6,000 Job Cuts June
Telstra asserts it’s “on track” to notch $2.5 billion in cost savings by 2022, after moving up the announcement of 6,000 jobs... Read More
Huawei Deny Home Brand OS Rollout Rumours
Under siege Chinese smartphone maker Huawei won’t roll out its mobile OS worldwide until at least next year, despite reports it would... Read More
Huawei Topple Apple Amid US Trade War
Chinese smartphone giant, Huawei, has remained the world’s second largest smartphone maker in Q1Y19, however, Gartner warns the company will “struggle not... Read More
Vodafone Leads TPG, ACCC Merger Appeal
Vodafone Hutchinson Australia (VHA) has submitted a statement of claim to the Federal Court, asserting its 5G network will be inferior to... Read More
Best Buy Cancels Galaxy Fold Pre-Orders
American retail behemoth, Best Buy, has reportedly cancelled pre-orders for Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, seemingly losing patience with the Korean giant’s ‘imminent’ revised... Read More
Microsoft Moves Further Away From Huawei
After removing Huawei laptops from its online stores, Microsoft’s service team has reportedly also withdrawn from Huawei’s Shenzhen headquarters, and stopped accepting... Read More
New iPhones To Debut Major Bluetooth Upgrade
Forthcoming Apple iPhones are rumoured to deploy dual Bluetooth audio connectivity, enabling users to hear GPS directions via their car audio, and... Read More
‘Boycott Apple’ Call Sweeps China
There have been growing calls for Chinese users to boycott Apple’s iPhones and other devices as Washington imposes fresh restrictions on Chinese... Read More
Industry Applauds Fletcher Post
The selection of Paul Fletcher, pictured, as Australia’s latest Communications Minister, replacing the UN-bound Mitch Fifield, has received some generally complimentary nods... Read More
Telstra & Optus Facing Major Threat From Space X 4G Satellites
SpaceX has just launched a payload that could soon become Telstra and Optus’s worst nightmare. The private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur... Read More
Telstra Ticked Off For Careless Base Station Deployment
The arrival of 5G and increasing demand for 4G bandwidth means telcos are under pressure to roll out more base-stations and seem... Read More
VHA, TPG Take Govt. To Court
Vodafone Hutchison Australia and TPG have confirmed that they are taking the Morrison Government to court over its rejection of their planned... Read More
Vocus Shares Leap In Wake Of $3bn Swedish Outfit’s Bid
Shares in Australia’s fourth largest telecoms operator Vocus leapt on the ASX yesterday after it announced having received an A$3.3 billion takeover... Read More
COMPUTEX: Lenovo Unveil World First 5G PC
Lenovo and Qualcomm have revealed the efforts of their collaboration, Project Limitless: an ultra-portable always-connected laptop prototype with Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 8cx... Read More
ACCC Investigating Telstra SIM Complaints
The ACCC is reportedly investigating Telstra over complaints it has blocked the use of international SIM cards for machine-to-machine operation in Australia... Read More
Consumers “Don’t Want To Be Seen In A Huawei Store” Claim Staff
What a difference a week makes, this time last week this Huawei store was packed, now it is stone motherless empty with... Read More
Telstra Launch Samsung Galaxy S10 5G For $144/Month
Samsung has partnered with Telstra to exclusively launch Australia’s first 5G smartphone, the Galaxy S10 5G, releasing in-store and online tomorrow. The... Read More
Ingram Micro To Distribute Xiaomi Amid Huawei Saga
Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi has been picked up by a local distributor, just over a month after opening its own Australian e-store... Read More
Apple To Warn iPhone Slowdown After “Batterygate”
Apple has formally pledged to offer consumers better information to about the impact of software updates on phone performance following the infamous... Read More
Huawei Shipments Tipped To Drop 24% In 2019
Several analysts forecast Huawei smartphone shipments to decline up to a quarter this year, as the Chinese manufacturer grapples with tight US... Read More
NBN Opponent Set To Oversee NBN As New Comms Minister
It’s what Canberra watchers call – with eyebrows raised – an “interesting” appointment. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has chosen Paul Fletcher –... Read More
Aussie Canva Hit By Massive Data Breach: User Details Stolen
Australia’s hugely successful graphic design company Canva, which has more than 139 million users worldwide, has been hit by a major data... Read More
Google, Facebook Leading Threat To Competition: ACCC Chief
Anti-trust authorities around the world, including Australia’s Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, are joining in a global discussion on how they should... Read More
List of Backers Grows As Huawei Allies Defy US Ban
The world’s largest chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, is defying the US ban on Huawei and plans to continue making chips for... Read More
Theft Dubious Ethics Welcome To Huawei’s New World
As Australians move to flog their Huawei smartphones due to security concerns and the fact that Google has pulled the plug on... Read More
Panasonic Continues Trade With Huawei
Japanese tech company Panasonic was among the first slew of big names to walk away from Huawei after the US ban, however,... Read More
Start-Up Accuses Huawei of Stealing Its Solid-State Secrets
Chip start-up CNEX Labs has accused Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu of participating in a conspiracy to steal its trade secrets. The... Read More
ByteDance Offers Music Streaming
ByteDance, the company that owns the wildly popular TikTok app, is developing a paid music streaming service, entering an already crowded market.... Read More
BlackBerry Key2 Coming To Oz June
The BlackBerry KEY 2 will finally be available in Australia next month, almost a year after its overseas launch. After being knocked... Read More
Huawei Chips Under Threat By ARM Withdrawal
Huawei’s ability to manufacturer its own chips is reportedly in jeopardy, following a leaked memo its licensed vendor ARM is halting supply, amid... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: The ACCC Got The TPG-Vodafone Merger Decision Right Claims Boost Boss
Peter Adderton the CEO of Boost Mobile believes that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission “got it right” when they rejected the... Read More
Telstra 5G Partner Appealing Competition Ruling
US chipmaker Qualcomm is seeking support from the Trump administration in its appeal against a ruling by the US Federal Trade Commission.... Read More
Huawei Puts Honor Before Android
Despite uncertainty over the future operation of its devices, Huawei has launched two new “Honor” smartphones. The Chinese technology giant virtually shrugged... Read More