Optus VoLTE Rollout: First Available For Galaxy S7 And S7 edge
Optus has commenced its rollout of VoLTE (Voice over LTE) services across its 4G Plus mobile network in Australia’s major capital cities,... Read More
Apple, SAP Partnership Focuses On iPhone And iPad In Enterprise
Apple and SAP have teamed up, in a partnership that will combine native apps for the iPhone and iPad with the SAP... Read More
Mobile Roaming Better: ACMA
Australians travelling overseas should have a better experience of mobile roaming following changes to industry standards ordered by the Federal Government and... Read More
REVIEW New HTC 10 Takes A New York Journey
Last week I was in New York and shortly before I left I got my hands on the new HTC 10, so... Read More
5G To Usher Transformation
Verizon and AT&T are set to begin testing 5G in the USA, heralding more significant transformation than previous versions. Both Optus and... Read More
Galaxy Note 6 To Be Equipped With USB Type-C?
Rumours have been circulating about Samsung’s Galaxy Note 6 in recent weeks, with anticipation already building in the lead-up to Samsung’s next... Read More
LG Innotek Unveils New Fingerprint Sensor Tech
LG Innotek has revealed an under-glass fingerprint sensor module, without a button, allowing users to place their finger on the cover-glass of... Read More
MediaTek To Lift Shipments
Chipmaker MediaTek – a competitor for the better-known Qualcomm – said it expects to increase shipments during the second quarter this year,... Read More
Telstra Identifies Network Problems That Crippled OZ, $50M Fix
Telstra is set to spend $50M fixing the network problems that recently, crippled millions of Australians using their 4G Network. Chief Operations... Read More
Mobile Shipments Take Their First Tumble In A Decade
Global smartphone shipments have fallen for the first time in a decade. In the first quarter of this year, the market fell... Read More
Data-Free Music Streaming On Prepaid At Optus
Optus is introducing data-free music-streaming for its prepaid mobile customers, with the offer to apply to a number of popular streaming services... Read More
Basslink Lays New Cable – But It Ain’t All Over Yet…
Basslink says it has completed the first stage of repairs to its damaged Bass Strait cables by laying 1355 metres of new cable... Read More
Samsung Profit Rises In Q1 Amid Strong S7 Sales
Samsung has posted a 5.7 per cent year-on-year rise in revenue and a 12 per cent year-on-year rise in operating profit in... Read More
Apple Pay Lands At ANZ
ANZ has become the first major Australian bank to offer Apple Pay, which from today will become available for its 5 million... Read More
CSIRO Heads Could Still Roll
The CSIRO says no decision has been made about whether it will keep the commercial capabilities of its Sydney lab credited with... Read More
HTC 10 Launching In Oz Next Week
Australian pricing and availability has been announced for the HTC 10, with HTC’s latest flagship smartphone set to land in the Australian... Read More
MS Offers One-Handed Keyboard
Microsoft has launched a new keyboard app, Word Flow for iOS, that lets users trade the standard iPhone keyboard for a version... Read More
Uncertainty Dogs iPhone Unlocking
A decision to drop the court case against Apple to force them to unlock an iPhone for a second time has raised... Read More
Apple Revenue Slides In Q2, iPhone Sales Drop
Apple has seen its second quarter revenue slide 13 per cent year-on-year, with iPhone sales declining. As reported by The Wall Street... Read More
Apple Tipped To Tank This Week As Demand For iPhone’s Go South
When you are Apple and you have over $240 Billion in the bank, it does not really matter if things start to... Read More
Machine Learning To Ease Angst
Telstra has been employing machine learning techniques in attempt to ease the angst of distressed customers the telco’s GM for analytics said... Read More
LG G5 And Friends Oz Pricing And Availability Revealed
LG has revealed Australian pricing and availability for its LG G5 smartphone, which is set to land in the local market from... Read More
Galaxy S7 And S7 edge Released In Pink Gold
Samsung has added a new colour to its Galaxy S7 line-up, releasing pink gold editions of the S7 and S7 edge. The... Read More
EU To Charge Google Over Android
The European Competition Commission is stepping up its efforts to nip Google’s dominance of Android devices in doing deals that give prominence... Read More
Data Use Growing: ACCC
Australian consumers are reaping the benefits from an increase in data allowances, new services, and lower prices, according to the Australian Competition... Read More
Telstra Also Cloud-Bound
Telstra has added two cloud-based online video platforms to its global media portfolio, according to a deal announced at the National Association... Read More
Designed For Durability: Alcatel Go Play Launches In Oz
Alcatel’s Go Play smartphone, decked out with a range of features designed for durability, has launched in the Australian market. Shockproof, waterproof... Read More
Court Douses FBI Claims
Apple has asked a US federal judge to reject the US Justice Department’s bid to make it unlock an iPhone tied to... Read More
ACCC Raps Telstra Knuckles
Telstra has received a minor rap over the knuckles by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for failing to protect confidential or... Read More
iPhone Sales Slump, Apple Cuts Production By 30% As Share Value Falls.
Is Apple’s run of spectacular success coming to an end and has the Company, that has spent the last decade making billions... Read More
LG To Reveal OZ G5 Smartphone This Week We Take A Look
LG will this week roll out their new G5 smartphone, in an attempt to claw market, share away from several brands, competing... Read More
Apple Launches Web Video-Chat
Apple is adding support from WebRTC in an update to its WebKit with a list of open specifications. No timeline has been... Read More
FBI Paid Hackers To Crack iPhone
The FBI managed to crack open the iPhone 5C used by San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook by paying a one-time fee to... Read More
RoBoHoN Is Coming: Sharp To Launch Robot-Shaped Phone
In the ever-growing smartphone market, Sharp’s upcoming RoBoHoN portable robot-shaped phone is bound to stand out from the crowd. RoBoHoN can walk... Read More
Huawei Look To Big Growth From Consumer Market
Huawei Technologies who are currently expanding their consumer products presence in the Australian market has said that they aims to ship 140... Read More
Legal Action In Air As Telstra Inks $1.6bn NBN Deal
Telstra yesterday announced it had signed a $1.6 billion contract with NBN Co to provide services for its hybrid fibre coax (HFC)... Read More
Mobile And Wearable Contactless Payments Growing At Pace
The global value of mobile and wearable contactless payments is set to rise to US$95 billion annually by 2018, up from less... Read More
Oh No, Not Another BlackBerry
Despite lower-than-expected Q1 calendar handset sales, Canada’s BlackBerry is continuing its headlong dive into the smartphone market like a dog at a... Read More
Galaxy 7 Boosts Samsung Result
Samsung has posted a better-than expected first-quarter profit, following the early release of new Galaxy S7 smartphones, which gave it a head-start on... Read More
Android Increases Oz Lead
Android commanded a 55.1 percent share of the Australian mobile phone market for the three months ending February 2016, up from 50.6... Read More
Shoretel Rebrands M5 Service
With market demand for cloud communications in Australia growing rapidly, US-based Shoretel has launched a cloud-based IP telephony operation in Australia dubbed... Read More
Global IT Spending To Drop In 2016 – But Oz Spend To Rise
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total US$3.49 trillion in 2016, a decline of 0.5 percent over 2015 spending of $3.5 trillion... Read More
Strong Start For The S7, Samsung Q1 Profit Up
Samsung has today released its earnings guidance for the 2016 first quarter, showing year-on-year operating profit and sales growth following the release... Read More
Huawei Takes On Apple, Samsung
Number three smartphone maker Huawei Technologies of China is shifting its focus upmarket with its new flagship phone, pictured. Huawei plans to... Read More
Huawei Reveal New P9 As They Battle To Knock Off Apple, Samsung + Alcatel
A brand new Huawei P9 and P9 Plus has been launched in London overnight the devices are set to be used locally... Read More
Fibre Now Fastest Growing Internet Connection In Oz
The growth rate in the number of Internet subscribers in Australia has slowed to a crawl of about one percent per year,... Read More
iOS Versus Android: Enter The iPhone SE
While Apple will be looking to the iPhone SE to further expand its iOS ecosystem, latest Kantar Worldpanel ComTech data shows a... Read More
Optus Wants Customers To Make The Switch, Launches New Offer
Optus has launched an offer aimed at getting customers to switch to its mobile network, covering the first 30 days of plan... Read More
NBN Ups Retailer Discounts
NBN in June will introduce a new discount model for its connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) charge, which it states is designed to... Read More
ZTE To Dump Senior Execs
The board of Chinese telecoms-equipment maker ZTE who recently cut back on their Australian headcount will meet this week to replace three... Read More