Boost Bundle Data Offers To Combat ‘Dataphobia’
Boost Mobile has announced a number of new prepaid mobile packages ahead of Halloween. A statement from the company reads: “Boost has... Read More
Coles Sees Slip In Q1 Sales Growth
While the Westfarmers-owned supermarket chain reported a rise in headline sales to $7.9 billion over the last quarter, but a decline in... Read More
ACCC Seeks Submissions On Domestic Mobile Roaming
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking feedback on whether to declare wholesale domestic mobile roaming. The ACCC released a discussion... Read More
PayPal Cozies Up With Facebook
Internet payments giant PayPal says it is teaming up with Facebook in a bid to have its payments spread across a broader... Read More
Samsung Pay Adds Masterpass, In-App Payments And 3 New Countries
If Apple’s most recent quarterly earnings report made anything clear, it’s that digital wallets have huge potential for growth. As if in... Read More
‘Lizards’ Blamed For DoS
Frustrated online gamers trying to slow their opponents as well as Wikileaks have now been blamed for the cyber attack that disrupted... Read More
Push To Restructure Twitter
Twitter watchers say the apparent lack of interest from potential suitors for the social media company may force it to consider restructuring.... Read More
CBA First Oz Bank To Settle International Deal By Blockchain
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has joined with Wells Fargo of the USA to process a payment using blockchain technology, believed to be a... Read More
EU Probes MS/LinkedIn Merger
EU competition regulators are probing a deal which will see Microsoft pay US$26 billion for professional network LinkedIn. The European Commission has... Read More
Cyberattacks Hit Oz Outfits As Wikileaks Fans Protest
Australian media banks airline and retail sites were heavily impacted at the weekend by cyberattacks apparently launched by WikiLeaks supporters. This appears... Read More
NBN Co Moots New IoT Role
NBN Co is looking at the possibility of entering the Internet Of Things (IoT) market its principal technology officer for FTTx (fibre... Read More
Mega Merger Ahead: AT&T Inks $85bn Deal For Time Warner
AT&T and Time Warner are on the verge of creating an entertainment media and telecommunications colossus. AT&T is brokering a US$85 billion... Read More
Phone Division Continue To Slip In Microsoft’s Q1 Report
Microsoft have released their first quarterly financial report of the 2017 fiscal year, reporting $22.3 billion in revenue. With analysts speculating the company would... Read More
Hackett Pumps Funds Into Tesla Chauffeur-Driven Service
Technology investor – and keen Tesla electric car fan – Simon Hackett has purchased a 10 percent shareholding in Evoke, a company... Read More
Kogan Quarterly Results Boost Shares
Online retailer Kogan.com has released its first quarterly results report, pushing their share price up to $1.56 per share. According to the report,... Read More
Godfreys Stores To Shift To A Franchise Model
Godfreys is set to convert up to 60 of its stores to a franchise model in the next three years. The news follows... Read More
Class Action Over Note 7
It’s been revealed that Samsung Electronics used internal battery testing facilities to gain safety certification for its Note 7 smartphones. Usually the... Read More
Pixel Boosts Alphabet Shares
Mostly positive reviews for Google’s new Pixel Android phone has seen shares in the company’s mothership Alphabet hit a record high. Alphabet’s... Read More
Yahoo Profit + Revenue –
Yahoo has reported Q3 profit that topped estimates giving the embattled Internet company some good news as Verizon rethinks its offer to... Read More
Intel Forecasts Uncertain Q4
Intel has forecast uncertain Q4 sales and revenue estimates of around US$15.7 billion. Analysts buttonholed by Bloomberg had estimated around $15.9 billion.... Read More
Microsoft’s Voice Recognition Tech Reaches ‘Human Parity’
Major improvements are on the way to Microsoft’s voice assistant software Cortana, courtesy of a breakthrough by the company’s researchers and engineers. The... Read More
New Tenants For Masters Sites May Have To Wait
Plans from major retailers such as The Good Guys and JB Hi-Fi to move into Masters sites may have hit a hurdle,... Read More
Microsoft Lines Up Manhattan Media Event
With the company already slated to reveal its next generation hardware on the 26th, Microsoft has confirmed a follow-up media event to take... Read More
Intel’s Stock Price Scores On PCs
Shares in Intel have been recovering, thanks in part to improved PC sales – but growth plans still hinge on the cloud.... Read More
Musk Extends Panasonic Ties
Tesla Motors and SolarCity founder Elon Musk has revealed plans to enlist Panasonic to help make solar-energy components. Production of photovoltaic cells... Read More
MS Chief Nadella Oz-Bound
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella is to visit Australia next month – his first visit since being appointed CEO in February 2014.... Read More
MS Seeks EU Nod On LinkedIn
Microsoft has called for a speedy green light by EU regulators for its US$26 billion bid for social network LinkedIn. “We filed... Read More
Salesforce Dumps Twitter Bid
Salesforce has dropped a bombshell on Twitter, saying it’s no longer interested in buying the troubled social network. Twitter now faces an... Read More
ADSL Regs – Five More Years
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has announced that it plans to continue regulating Australia’s wholesale ADSL service for five more years.... Read More
HP Will Cut Up To 4,000 Jobs Over Three Years
Struggling PC company Hewlett Packard, who have made millions in losses in Australia, have now moved to sack 3,000 employees in an... Read More
ACCC To Continue Regulating ADSL For Five More Years
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced that it plans to continue regulating the wholesale ADSL service for five more years in a... Read More
MS HoloLens On Way – At A Price
Microsoft Australia has opened a pre-ordering procedure for its HoloLens “augmented reality” headset – but don’t rush to order unless you’re well-heeled... Read More
Upheaval At Vocus: Directors Ousted As Dump-CEO Bid Fails
Australian telecommunciations company Vocus was in upheaval yesterday with founder James Spenceley and fellow board member Tony Grist sent packing after failure... Read More
Apple Jumps To Christmas Highs
Apple stock shot up to its highest level since December by 2.3 percent after rival Samsung Electronics suspended production of its flagship... Read More
Sorry, No Bonuses: Telstra Execs To Suffer Over 2016 Outages
Telstra executives will dip out on their annual customer service bonuses this year – at least partly due to the continued outages... Read More
Telstra Says ‘No’ To Mobile Roaming – But Sims May Differ
There is no way Telstra will give in easily to calls for the introduction of mobile roaming across Australia, chairman John Mullen... Read More
Developers Take Apple to Court
French open-source software company Nexedi has filed a lawsuit against Apple in Paris. alleging that Apple’s App Store contract is unfair. In... Read More
TPG Eyes New Spectrum Auction
TPG chief David Teoh, pictured, has welcomed the Federal Government decision to auction the remaining 700MHz spectrum left over from the 2013... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: Top LG OZ Execs Quit
LG Electronics Australia is looking for a new head of their Home Entertainment Division after Chris Horne quit, also quitting the Company... Read More
Apple Wins Sliding Appeal
Apple has won an appeal to reinstate a patent-infringement verdict it won against Samsung Electronics worth US$119.6 million. The case centred on... Read More
Canberra Looks to Raise $1bn From New Spectrum Auction
The Turnbull Government is looking to raise as much as one billion dollars from the sale of leftover 700MHz spectrum after knocking... Read More
Xenophon Opens Bid to Disallow Australia’s New Drone Laws
Independent senator Nick Xenophon aims to set in motion moves to disallow Australia’s new laws governing the use of drones when Federal... Read More
Google EU Deadline Looms
Google has been given a fourth extension to counter EU antitrust charges that it uses its dominant Android mobile operating system to... Read More
Alphabet Reins In ‘Moonshots’
Learning the Alphabet has been paying off for Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, tech-savvy sharemarket watchers say. Just one year... Read More
Facebook Launches Oz Marketplace
US-based Facebook has launched a new marketplace in Australia, taking on UK-based Gumtree and its owner eBay. But the Australian move is... Read More
Acer Named Official Sponsor Of League of Legends Events
Acer has been named as an official sponsor for two major League of Legends esport events in 2016. The League of Legends... Read More
Most Consumers Open To Persuasion When Buying Electrical Goods
Nine in ten consumers are open to persuasion in the first stages of buying new electrical goods, a NewsMediaWorks report has revealed.... Read More
New E-Sports Betting Drive: Amazon Shows Online Currency
TwitchTV, an online video-game streaming platform owned by Amazon, plans to launch its own virtual currency, to be known as Stream+, and... Read More
Spotify To Buy SoundCloud
Swedish music-streaming service provider Spotify says it is in advanced talks to acquire German rival SoundCloud. SoundCloud’s founders and investors have been... Read More
Snapchat Snaps Up 60m Users
Snapchat now has more than 60 million daily active users in North America – or about a third of what Facebook has... Read More