Catch Squares Up To Amazon With New Sydney Warehouse
Wesfarmers-owned online retailer Catch is planning to open its first fulfilment centre outside Victoria with a new facility in Moorebank, NSW. The... Read More
Government To Vaccinate Employees At Samsung & LG
The South Korean government is preparing to provide the Moderna vaccine to employees of its major tech companies in a push to... Read More
Amazon’s Advertising Rates Have Rocketed During Pandemic
Amazon is certainly one of the big winners from the ongoing pandemic, with advertising rates leaping more than 50 per cent last... Read More
Fake Bill Con Artists Stole $128m From Oz Businesses Last Year
The ACCC is sounding the alarm to businesses on payment redirection scams, which cost Australian companies a staggering $128 million in 2020. The... Read More
SMEs Under Pressure As Pandemic Subsides
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have been hit by economic decline due to Covid-19 which has affected 35pc of SMEs, down... Read More
Govt Rolls Out Covid-19 Vaccine Certificate
More than 100 days since Australia’s vaccine rollout started, the Federal Government is launching a portal that will provide information on who... Read More
Pandemic Push Sees Oz Tablet Sales Soar: Telsyte
The Covid pandemic has helped buoy the tablet and PC market amid a shift to working from home (WFH), more remote learning... Read More
Superloop Snaps Up Exetel For $110 Million
Superloop is forking out $110 million to buy Exetel, the largest independent internet service provider in Australia. The deal, which includes $100... Read More
Apple Launching Spatial Audio Radio Station Tomorrow
A keen-eyed Twitter user discovered a video on Apple Music’s New Zealand site announcing the arrival of a Spatial Audio streaming radio... Read More
Price Of Samsung Drives Set To Rise
Demand from data centre providers is expected to drive a price increase of solid-state drives over the next few months, and Samsung... Read More
LG Renews Its Commitment To ESports
After a successful 2020 season, LG has announced it will renew its sponsorship of Battle Academy, its esports tournament for high school... Read More
Samsung Creates Stretchable Displays That Stick To Skin
Samsung has developed a revolution new OLED display that can stretch and stick to human skin, and monitor the wearer’s heartbeat. According... Read More
Microsoft Wins US Antitrust OK For $16 Billion Purchase Of Nuance
Microsoft has won US antitrust approval for its deal to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications. The US$16 billion... Read More
Woolies Renewables Push Involved In Wind Farm Deal
Supermarket giant Woolworths has entered the market for renewable energy, signing a 10-year agreement to purchase electricity from the Bango Wind Farm... Read More
Digital Skills Crisis Looms As PM Urges Return To Office
A new report from RMIT Online says digital skill needs will grow as the recovery from the Covid-19 recession accelerates, but –... Read More
DroneShield Scores $3.8m Five-Eyes Nations Deal
DroneShield (DRO) has received a $3.8 million contract with the military of a Five Eyes nation. Roughly $2 million of the contract... Read More
Tech Giants In Focus As Aussie Government Welcomes G7 Deal
The Federal Government and the Labor-led Opposition have shown bipartisan support for an agreement between the G7 advanced economies to back a... Read More
Fisher-Price Recalls Baby Rocker After Four Deaths
Fisher-Price is recalling its 4-in-1 Rock ‘n Glide Soothers after it was linked to the deaths of four infants, who were placed... Read More
Apple Updates AirTags To Address Stalking Concerns
Apple has updated AirTags in order to allay fears that they will be used to nefarious track someone without their knowledge. “Following... Read More
Biden Blocks 59 Chinese Companies, Including Huawei
President Joe Biden just signed an order amending the ban list for U.S. investment in Chinese companies, listing off 59 firms with... Read More
Nokia And Optus Deploy Australia’s First IPAA 5G Antenna
Nokia has deployed Australia’s first Interleaved Passive Active Antenna in Brisbane, in collaboration with Optus. The IPAA tower sits in Yeerongpilly, Brisbane and is... Read More
Fujifilm Hit By Ransomware Attack
Fujifilm Corporation has been forced to shut down servers and disconnect its network after a ransomware attack. Fujifilm say this was merely... Read More
Ingram Micro Nabs Sony Australia’s TV/Audio Portfolio
Ingram Micro has scored the distribution deal for Sony Australia’s sound systems, TVs, and headphones for the local market. They take over... Read More
Garmin Launches Forerunner 55 And Forerunner 945 LTE Smartwatches
Garmin has released two new Forerunner smartwatches. The Garmin Forerunner 55 is an entry-level smartwatch that aims to compete with the lower... Read More
The Reject Shop Damaged By CBD Exodus And Shipping Costs
Bargain basement store The Reject Shop is suffering due to the lack of foot traffic in Australia’s CBDs and metro shopping centres,... Read More
2020 Savings Will Result In 2021 Home Retail Boom: Citi
The outlook for retail is rosy as income growth recovers, people are saving most robustly, and international borders remain closed, according to... Read More
Amazon Ring Will Now Force Police To Publicly Request Security Footage
Amazon’s Ring has bought smart home security to the masses, but with this peace of mind comes increased breaching of civil liberties,... Read More
Samsung Launches Cheap Notebooks
The pandemic has accelerated the desire for affordable laptops, and Samsung have moved to fulfil this need, with two new models that... Read More
Android Users Can Also Opt Out Of Data Tracking
Following Apple’s moves earlier this year to increase user privacy on iPhone, Google has announced it will also let Android users opt... Read More
Norton Crypto Promises Safe Currency Mining
Norton is all about safety, so it comes as some relief to crypto-miners that it is releasing Norton Crypto, a new feature... Read More
Apple References ‘homeOS’ Software In Advert
Apple may be bringing in all its smart home devices under the banner of “homeOS”, after the term was used twice in... Read More
Bunnings Outlines Its Simple Plan To Stay Ahead Of The Game
Bunnings Group has a simple plan for continued success: maintain a disciplined focus on lowest costs to support delivery of lowest prices... Read More
Officeworks Looks To Double Its Addressable Market
Officeworks sees a potential doubling of its addressable market as it moves to overhaul its supply chain technology and expand its SME... Read More
Target Commercial Model Reset Is Complete, Says Wesfarmers
Target is now a “smaller and simpler business with a significantly reduced fixed cost base,” according to Wesfarmers, who held a Strategy... Read More
Historic Stereo Photo Collection Up For Auction
Stereo photos were once at the pinnacle of technology, enabling people to see scenes in 3D for the first time and in... Read More
Twitter Is Now Fact-Checking Your Tweets
Twitter is rife with fake news, false information, and good ol’ idiotic ignorance, but now it is looking to correct this flood... Read More
Ikea Accidentally Confirms A New Sonos-Powered Symfonisk Smart Speaker
These days it seems that most product leaks are the result of retails inadvertently putting up a product description before the company... Read More
Microsoft Announces Release Date For New Windows
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella has described the forthcoming update to Windows as the “most significant” overhaul in a decade. The... Read More
The Chaser Mocks Harvey Norman With Front-Of-Store Spruiker
Harvey Norman’s tone deaf response to calls it should return JobKeeper payments, and its subsequent Twitter debacle has resulted in The Chaser... Read More
Woolworths Launches New Payments System Wpay
Woolworths is taking on the big four with its new stand-alone payments system, Wpay. The supermarket giant is currently the country’s fifth-largest... Read More
Bring Back JobKeeper, Says ARA As Lockdown Bites
JobKeeper needs to make a comeback, says the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) as Melbourne’s latest lockdown is extended by another week. With... Read More
IDC Reveals 5G Smartphone Numbers For Oz
IDC’s newly released Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows 5G smartphone shipments to Australia have increased from 14 per cent of the market... Read More
Bitcoin Piggy Bank Warning
Online safety experts are warning parents of a bitcoin product available to children in Australia which they say has little educational value.... Read More
Thousands Of Public Servants Still Working From Home
A recent Public Service Commission survey, which questioned 75 percent of public servants, showed only 8 percent of Commonwealth bureaucrats were working... Read More
NSW Launches $24m Fund For Innovative SMEs
The NSW Government has launched a $24 million fund for innovative SMEs. The grants are part of the Small Business Innovation Research... Read More
MS Vax Booking System Still Not Operational In Victoria
Amid the latest Victorian COVID-19 outbreak, the state’s online vaccination booking platform is still not operational after the state government bought the... Read More
Zoom’s Q1 Financials Top Analyst Predictions
Zoom has blasted past Wall Street predictions, with its first quarter 2021 total revenue reaching $956.2 million, up 191 per cent year on... Read More
Sony’s New Buds Expensive, According To Leak
If you have been waiting for the new Sony wireless ear buds, they will set you back a pretty penny. A Slovakian... Read More
Sennheiser Launches Amazon-Exclusive HD 450SE Wireless Headphones
Sennheiser has released a pair of its HD 450BT wireless headphones that adds the Alexa voice assistant – previously the headphones only... Read More
Mozilla Makes Firefox Prettier And Easier To Use
Mozilla has made the first significant update to Firefox in many years, with version 89 coming with a complete design overhaul that... Read More