Asia Calls: Telstra Moves Into Japan, Singapore
Click to enlarge This latest announcement follows Telstra’s recent award of three licences in India to provide locals with international long-distance and... Read More
Telstra: “We Are Sorry We Let You Down”
After being informed of the situation, Telstra took down the BigPond e-mail service, as well as online billing and other services. The... Read More
Smallest Plantronics Bluetooth Headset Hits Oz Stores
A perk for iPhone and Android users is voice-guided pairing and a customisable smartphone app dubbed MyHeadset for sound-checking and music streaming,... Read More
How To Buy A Smartphone This Christmas
Click to enlarge There’s loads of smartphones available in the market and they all have confusing features labelled by jargon. Once you... Read More
De-Friend! 20% Bosses Snoop Staff’s Facebook
Click to enlarge And bosses snooping Facebook on current staff is also common with almost 20% confessing to using online forums to... Read More
NBN A $50b Broadband Monster Secret New Report Reveals
The report obtained by the Australian newspaper was prepared by Labour’s own corporate advisers, Greenhill Caliburn Communications. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has... Read More
Dumb Move By High Court In iiNet Appeal Case
In a move that takes accurate reporting back years the court has deemed that the old pen and paper and shorthand is... Read More
Telco Troubles? 50% To ‘Jump Ship’ 2012
Click to enlarge Telco toubles could mean a mass exodus in 2012. “Misconceptions” and “feelings of hopelessness” are... Read More
Hello 4G: Telstra High Speed Handsets Hit Q1?
Click to enlarge “Customers snapped up 4G dongles on the day, and look forward to the first 4G handsets coming into store... Read More
NBN A Flop As Consumers & Business Reject Fast Broadband
According to new information only one in nine homes have taken up the service in towns like Armadale NSW which is Tony... Read More
JBL Twists Up Apple Dock Design With Two New Mini iPhone-Attaches
Four generations on, and the On Stage IV and On Stage Micro III speaker docks come in with a smaller footprint than... Read More
Beware $1.7m OZ Skype Scam, Minister Warns
Click to enlarge The ‘energy saving’ device promises to save 40 percent on bills. 8000 of the devices are already believed to... Read More
Telstra: Forget Flying, Hop On Cisco
Cisco Telepresence…better than flying first class? “Telstra and Cisco have enabled members of the Australian Government to meet face to face without... Read More
Uh-Oh: Vodafone Sees Red As Dealer Claims $6M
Click to enlarge 375,000 customers fled the network in the first six months of the year, which hit Vodafone Hutchinson Australia‘ bottom... Read More
New Denon Network Play Come With AirPlay & DLNA
The DNP-720AE network audio player which is set to go on sale in Australia prior to Xmas is also DLNA-certified. A stand-alone... Read More
Plan Manager: Telstra Online Portal To Eliminate Bill Shockers
Click to enlarge The new online portal, announced today, provides postpaid customers better “visibility and control” of their mobile spend, which they... Read More
OZ Sits With Most Advanced Cloud Computing Countries, Study Reveals
The Cloud Readiness Index, conducted by the Asia Cloud Computing Association, looked at 10 attributes for each of the markets, with each... Read More
Telcos Told To Get Pricing Act Together Or Face Regulation
The Australian Communication and Media Authority (AMCA) delivered its final report on the telecommunication industry’s pricing and billing strategies after an 18... Read More
Cheap TPG Broadband Plans Undercut Top Three Telcos
TPG’s hopes its cheap data plans will attract budding mobile broadband customers to its range of internet dongles and tablets. They plans range from... Read More
Stacked Up: Telstra Unleash IPV6 To Web
Click to enlarge Telstra is now providing business and wholesale customers with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) connectivity – the next generation... Read More
Skype’s GroupMe Purchase Threatens BlackBerry
The WSJ reports the acquisition will strengthen Skype’s mobile telephony capabilities, which is a market experiencing strong and rapid growth. “Skype and... Read More
Hello, Telstra? Telco Unleash Live Facebook Chat
Click to enlarge If Twitter wasn’t enough now Telstra have gone one step further with round the clock Facebook chat. And if... Read More
Kenwood Not Alone In Bluetooth Pairing Drama Parrot Gear Blamed
Earlier this week we revealed how Kenwood dealers had taken a complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission claiming that Kenwood... Read More
We’re Back: Telstra Bouncy As Adds 1.6M Users, Leaves Optus For Dust
Click to enlarge The earnings decline of $696 million to $10.1bn – a 6.4% drop – was “slightly better” than expectations, owing... Read More
Optus ‘Resilient’ Despite 5% Profit Slump, Losing 85K Customers
Optus financial highlights for the current quarter to the end of June include earnings before tax (EBITDA) up 1% to $560 million,... Read More
Tough Love: Telstra Users Boost But H2 Profits Set To Slide
Click to enlarge Telstra’s makeover strategy, first unleashed last year, included treating the customer to round the clock service (only today it... Read More
Protect Us: Conroy Forces Telcos To Up Customer Service Or Face $2M Fine
The new rules, announced by Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, will make “larger” carriers (CSPs) like Telstra, Optus and Vodafone improve... Read More
Calls War: Optus, Vodafone Push For High Charges As Telstra Calls For Drop
The MTAS, or mobile terminating access service pricing, denotes the amount telcos here agree to charge one another when customer make fixed... Read More
Video Phone: Skype 2.1 App Hits HTC, Samsung ‘Droids
Click to enlarge The Skype 2.1 for Android app with video, announced recently, has reached out to another whopping 17 handsets: including... Read More
Conroy: Do Your Homework, Or Else
Australia is lagging behind other developed countries in harnessing the Net for business and badly needed to catch up, Minister for Broadband,... Read More
Oops! Skype iPad App Goes Live ..By Accident
Click to enlarge “We’ve temporarily removed Skype for iPad which went live prematurely today,” it tweeted six hours ago. This was in... Read More
Optus Launch Unlimited National Calls For Just $5*
That takes in a few landmark items, like the introduction of dial phones (rather than winding a handle to alert the operator);... Read More
Optus To Take On Telstra T Hub New Product This Week
Michael Smith, Optus consumer products MD and Gavin Williams, consumer marketing director, will show off the product to reptiles of the Aussie... Read More
Panasonic Cordless Phones Work In Emergency Blackouts
The 662 DECT series can still operate without mains power by simply placing the handset on the base and making use of... Read More
Plantronics Spruiks New Bluetooth Headset With Vocalyst Cloud Control
The new Savor M1100, launched today, comes stocked with a subscription cloud-based voice service called Vocalyst, that essentially dials a landline (rather... Read More
Skype + Facebook: We’ve Been At It For A While
And with a reported 750 million users, it can hardly be blamed for thinking better fortunes are ahead with its new integration... Read More
Skype + Facebook: We’ve Been At It For A While
And with a reported 750 million users, it can hardly be blamed for thinking better fortunes are ahead with its new integration... Read More
Skype + Facebook: We’ve Been At It For A While
And with a reported 750 million users, it can hardly be blamed for thinking better fortunes are ahead with its new integration... Read More
Skype + Facebook: We’ve Been At It For A While
And with a reported 750 million users, it can hardly be blamed for thinking better fortunes are ahead with its new integration... Read More
Telstra’s NBN Day Of Reckoning Dawns Sign Off Today
The heavily detailed agreement – many months in the making – is said to come to more than 1700 pages, and provides... Read More
Watch Out Optus: New Telco Hits With Eye On Cloud
Continuum was formed through a merger between wholesale provider buroserv and VoIP provider, ISPhone, just announced today. It boasts a broad reach... Read More
Get A Grip: Cygnett Launches New iPhone 4 Cases
The brand new range includes the AeroGrip, AeroGrip Edge, UrbanShield, Tactile, Boston, Nomad, Aerosphere & WorkMate Pro. The range ticks a lot... Read More
VoIP Set To Soar As Consumers Opt For Free Internet Calls
Point Topic, a UK based firm which provides information on broadband communications services worldwide, says Voice over IP has over 120 million... Read More
Sangean Gets Rugged & On The Road With Digital Utility Radio
Distributed in Australia by Canohm, the DAB+Box brings digital sound quality to a radio that can handle all work environments and weather... Read More
Cordless Phone Market Gets Smart As Consumers Demand More Features
As demand for Smartphone’s soar, Australians are looking for equally smart communication technology in the home, including follow me technology that links... Read More
P Diddy’s TinyChat Gets Legs But Can It Catch Skype?
Click to enlarge The chat room site, which has a stream of famous backers including Ashton Kutcher and Sean Combs aka P... Read More
Skype B2B Video Calls To Boom.. And Bite Logitech
The computer software giant is very likely to extend VoIP expert Skype’s calls and videoconferencing capabilities to desktops PC’s, complementing its... Read More
CONFIRMED: Microsoft Nabs Skype For $8.5B & Vows To ‘Do More Things’
Click to enlarge Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, and Skype’s Tony Bates, shake on it. The deal, just announced, which has shocked analysts... Read More
Harvey Norman Gets Record Breaking LG Dual Core Optimus 2X
Click to enlarge Available as an unlocked handset with an RRP of $649, the Froyo running LG Optimus 2X with a 4-inch... Read More
Telstra $600m Bid On SMB’s
Click to enlarge ‘Digital Business’ offers high-speed fixed broadband and telephony, which works with remote working solutions, mobile telephones and cloud software.... Read More