Research Reveals 45% Of Aussie Smartphone Owners “Can’t Live Without” Their Smartphone
Can you live without your smartphone? New Roy Morgan Research data reveals that 45 per cent of Australian smartphone owners (14+) say... Read More
Apple Beats China iPhone Ban
Apple says its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are still available for sale in China, despite Beijing’s intellectual property regulators barring their... Read More
Digital Disruption To Hit 40% Of Jobs
Digital disruption could threaten 40 percent of Australian jobs over the next 10 to 15 years as automation and machine learning shake... Read More
Samsung Pay Launches In Oz With American Express And Citibank
Samsung’s mobile payment service Samsung Pay is now available in Australia, having today launched with partners American Express and Citibank. Samsung Pay... Read More
Mobile Money Surging: 1 Billion Users By The End Of The Year
A new Strategy Analytics report shows that mobile money transactions are set to surge, with global service users to break the one... Read More
‘The More Fibre The Better’: Budde Backs Labor’s NBN Plan
Telecommunications industry analyst and commentator Paul Budde has commented favourably on the Labor Party’s plan to revive the use of fibre-to-the-premises technology... Read More
Intel Wins iPhone Chip Contract
Reports that Apple’s next iPhone will use modem chips from Intel in some versions have added to speculation of major changes to... Read More
Lenovo Launches Modular Moto Z Smartphone OZ Launch Tipped
As tipped by ChannelNews Lenovo has launched new Motorola branded modular smartphone which the Company claims is superior to recently launched G5.... Read More
Lenovo Punts On Smartphones To Grow Sales
By David Richards + Bloomberg: As growth in the PC market evaporates for most manufacturers, Lenovo is punting on new experimental smartphone... Read More
Samsung Flexi Phones On Way
Samsung is expected to unveil a pair of flexible smartphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC) next year. Bloomberg reports that the smartphones... Read More
Weather Beaten: Basslink Repair Finished – After Six Months
The ruptured Basslink electricity and fibre optic telecommunications cables that link Tasmania to the mainland have finally been repaired – almost six... Read More
Power Struggle At Cisco – Dumped R&D Team Quits
Just one week after announcing that three members of Cisco Systems’ legendary four-person R&D team had been reassigned, CEO Chuck Robbins, pictured,... Read More
New iPhone 7 Case Images Confirm New Headphone Jack + Dual Camera
Rumours about Apple’s upcoming iPhone 7 could have an impact on headphone sales with Apple set to get rid of the headphone... Read More
Slowing Smartphone Sales: 7% Growth This Year
Global smartphone sales will continue to slow this year, with the market no longer growing in double digits, according to Gartner. Gartner... Read More
Samsung Pay Set For Oz Launch Next Week
Samsung is set to launch Samsung Pay in Australia next week, having today sent out invitations to a launch event. Samsung has... Read More
iPhone Leak Tips Curved Display
Following on from leaks suggesting that Apple will pull out all the stops for its 2017 iPhone with an “all glass” design,... Read More
Why Millennials Go For Their Smartphone Right After Sex
Checking a smartphone right after sex appears to have become more popular than lighting up a “ciggy”. New research reveals that one... Read More
Aussie 5G Group Created
The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) has set up a new group to focus on policy, regulatory and technology issues related to... Read More
Huawei OZ Sales Being Questioned As US Government Moves On The Company
Huawei whose sales went backwards in the last quarter in Australia, is under investigation over sales of smartphones to U.S.-sanctioned countries like... Read More
New Samsung Note Six ‘Has Sexy Curves’
The Galaxy S7 has been a smash hit for Samsung now the Company is looking to take its sleek curves over to... Read More
New Samsung Wireless Earbuds + Gear Fit Smartwatch Coming
Samsung has delivered a major makeover of their Gear Fit2 smartwatch, they have also revealed new Gear IconX earbuds. The move comes... Read More
Internet Boom Waning: Report
Global Internet and smartphone user growth are slowing dramatically. So says the Internet Trends report, an annual US tech industry event from... Read More
JB Hi Fi To Sell Sub $550, 24Bit Audio HTC Smartphone
JBH Hi Fi is set to range the new unique soft grip polycarbonate designed HTC Desire 825 smartphone that was revealed earlier... Read More
Apple Pay Flops
REUTERS: First it was Apple Watches that struggled then Apple Music, now Apple who is also having to contend with falling iPhone... Read More
Ericsson: IoT To Surpass Mobile Phones By 2018
The Internet of Things (IoT) is surging ahead and set to overtake mobile phones as the largest category of connected device by... Read More
Smartphone Sales To Plunge, HTC, Apple, Sony, Microsoft On The Outer
Things are starting to go from bad to worse for the likes of Telstra after new research reveals that smartphone sales are... Read More
Will Apple Extend Its iPhone Product Cycle?
Apple could extend its iPhone product cycle, taking three years between full-model changes of the devices, the Nikkei Asian Review has reported.... Read More
Uniden Introduces XDECT 83xx Home Phone Series
Uniden has introduced its XDECT 83xx extended long-range cordless home phone series, with the new phones landing in the local market this... Read More
ARM Processors To Deliver VR And AR Experiences To Next Year’s Smartphone Flagships
ARM has taken the wraps off its Mali-G71 graphics processor and Cortex-A73 processor, decked out to deliver virtual reality and augmented reality... Read More
Batman-Inspired: Samsung Unveils Themed Galaxy S7 edge
Samsung has teamed up with Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment to launch the Galaxy S7 edge Injustice Edition. The themed S7, which... Read More
All You Wanted To Know About 5G…At A Price
5G experts in the ICT industry and academia, led by Ericsson, have produced what is claimed to be the first comprehensive book... Read More
Mobile Users Spending Up On In-App Transactions
In-app mobile transactions are outpacing upfront app payments, according to Gartner, while younger people are more confident with in-app transactions than their... Read More
Skipping The 6: Galaxy Note 7 On Its Way?
Will the Samsung Galaxy Note 6, in fact, be the Galaxy Note 7? According to Korean website ETnews, Samsung is set to... Read More
Huawei Seeks Samsung Royalties
Chinese telecoms company Huawei says Samsung has infringed patents on its 4G devices and wants recompense after Samsung refused to pay. Huawei... Read More
New Delay For Basslink Repairs
Repairs to the broken Basslink electrical and telecommunications cables that link Tasmania to the mainland have been delayed yet again, leading Basslink... Read More
Microsoft Consumer Business A ‘Mess” 1,850 Jobs To Go, Another $1.3B Writedown
Microsoft whose consumer business has been described as a “mess” has moved to slash a further 1,850 jobs after issuing another $1.3B... Read More
Bendy-Phones On The Way
Apple failed to anticipate a fashion disaster when it made the iPhone 6 and was plagued with reports of the smartphone bending... Read More
BlackBerry MD Off To Optus
BlackBerry Australia’s managing director Matthew Ball will leave the smartphone company to take over Optus’s small and medium business operations. Ball will... Read More
Woolworths Introduces New Phone Plans
Woolworths Mobile has launched three new phone bundles, with a range of Samsung phones to choose from under the plans. Woolworths states... Read More
Outage: Telstra Hit Yet Again
Telstra’s network outage woes were compounded yesterday, with up to 375,000 of the Telco’s NBN and ADSL customers unable to connect to... Read More
2017 Tipped To Be The Year Of Modular Smartphones
2017 is tipped to be all about modular smartphones with Google set to release their “Lego” version. Last month LG launched their... Read More
Smartphone Sales Up 3.9% In Q1, Apple Registers First Double-Digit Decline
Global smartphone sales were up 3.9 per cent year-on-year in the 2016 first quarter, while Apple registered its first year-on-year double-digit decline,... Read More
HFC Hits 10Gbps At Nokia
Nokia has demonstrated 10Gbps symmetrical data speeds over traditional hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) cable networks. Nokia’s prototype technology, called XG-Cable, is still at... Read More
Huawei Mate 8 Set To Land In Oz Next Week
Huawei’s Mate 8 smartphone is set to launch in the Australian market, with Huawei today advising it will be available from next... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: OZ Smartphone Market Smashed As Sony, Motorola & Telstra Slump
The Australian smartphone market has taken a pounding, dropping 23% during the past 12 months, the feature phone market has fallen by... Read More
Judge Sides With Tech Companies
A magistrate has rejected the US Justice Department’s practice of seeking gag orders against technology companies, saying federal agents should have to... Read More
Global Handset Sales To Rise 4.9% in 2016, Refurbished Market Poised For Growth
ABI Research has forecast that global handset sales, including both smartphones and mobile phones, will rise 4.9 per cent this year, with... Read More
Mobile App Installs And Revenue To Continue To Grow
Mobile device users installed nearly 156 billion mobile applications worldwide last year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC), generating US$34.2 billion... Read More
Android Phones ‘At Risk’: Report
Android-powered smartphones may be at risk from a “undetectable” Qualcomm software flaw that has left users’ text messages and call histories open to... Read More
Goodbye, Smartphones? Yanks Turning Back To Flip-Phones
As sales of smartphones including the Apple iPhone line begin to languish, US reports suggest major sections of the phone-buying public are... Read More