No Wheels At Microsoft
Microsoft has confirmed it is not about to make a self-driving car itself – but says it is looking to get its... Read More
Guvera Looks For $100 Million
One planned float, by Gold Coast-based online music streaming service Guvera, could perhaps be the type of IPO that has caught Paul... Read More
Bassat Slates ASX Start-Ups
Seek co-founder Paul Bassat has called on the Australian Securities Exchange to adopt much tighter listing requirements for technology start-ups. His call... Read More
Toyota Set To Buy Google Robots
Toyota is set to buy Boston Dynamics and Schaft’s robot divisions from Google’s Alphabet. A Nikkei financial news report said Toyota is... 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
Sorry, No Papers, But We’ve Got Bitcoin: Newsagent Future?
Australian newsagents may soon be without two of their major money-spinners – the daily print editions of Fairfax newspapers including the Melbourne... Read More
Been Blasted With Spam? Millions Have After Microsoft Stuff Up
I have just been swamped in Spam thanks to yet another stuff up by Microsoft. This morning I opened up my Outlook... Read More
Neil Merola: Former Dick Smith Strategy Director Now Business Consultant
Neil Merola the former Director of Marketing and Strategy, at the now failed Dick Smith is today peddling his skills as a... Read More
India Divided On Apple Stores
Confusion reins in India over whether Apple will be allowed to open retail stores in the country. India generally bans such a... Read More
Oz Spammer Made To Pay
J & L Mainwaring Pty Limited, which used the Internet domain Oneofthebest.com, has paid a $21,600 infringement notice for breaches of the... Read More
Pure Digital Reception
Westan Australia is now the official distributor of the Pure digital radio range for Australia and New Zealand. The acquisition bolsters the... Read More
Google Wins $9 Billion Copyright Case – But Oracle To Appeal
The champagne is flowing at Google after it won a copyright case against Oracle that could have cost them US$9 billion in... Read More
Telstra CTO Sacked: Report
Telstra has reportedly sacked its chief technology officer Vish Nandlall – a former Ericsson US employee – after just 21 months in... Read More
Angry Chinese, Offered Win 10 Opt Out Deal But Not In OZ
Fed up with Microsoft’s constant upgrades to Windows 10? So are the Chinese, but the big problem is that they are being... Read More
Interest In IoT Growing Strongly
Record attendance at Internet of Things World 2016, which claims to be the world’s largest and most comprehensive IoT event, shows just... Read More
Telstra To Fight Caymans Action
Telstra has confirmed that it will fight a court action launched in the Cayman Islands by minority shareholders of Chinese car Web... Read More
Lenovo Boss Admits Integration Of Moto “Has been difficult” OZ Division Restructured
Days after IDC research revealed that Motorola sales in Australia plunged in the last quarter, the CEO of Lenovo has admitted that... Read More
Google’s Paris HQ Raided
Dozens of tax investigators converged on Google’s French headquarters in a surprise raid, the latest move in a tax dispute in which... Read More
Battery Storage To Change World
AGL Energy chief executive Andy Vesey believes the price of battery storage of renewable energy will drop 60pc in the next five... Read More
Aussie ‘Cool Vendors’ Named
Market research outfit Gartner has named 10 Australian companies, plus one from New Zealand. as “cool vendors” in a 2015 global listing... Read More
As Xbox Console Sales Tank Microsoft Is Set To Launch Game Streaming Box
As Xbox sales slump around the world Microsoft is moving to try and revitalise their struggling console with a major upgrade and... Read More
Google Garnishes Java Burger
Google lawyers have likened Java programming code they are accused of stealing to the equivalent of a hamburger. Oracle is suing Google... 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
Harvey Norman Boss Responds To ChannelNews POCO Story & The Good Guys Muir Family Feud
Harvey Norman who has been telling some suppliers that they are “overstocked” and will not be placing orders for new stock until... Read More
Sony Back Making Losses, Mobile Division Drops $755M
Sony who witnessed an 85% decline in mobile phone sales in Australia in Q1 2016, has overnight come out and said that... Read More
NBN To Defend AFP Raids
The National Broadband Network hierarchy is expected to come out firing today, as it seeks to mount a defence of its actions... Read More
Big Business Joins IoT Group
Looking to embrace the technology-based future, the Business Council of Australia (BCA) has joined the Internet of Things Alliance Australia (IoTAA), and... Read More
Get Your Shopticals On: Myer Sets Up World-First VR Store
Major Australian retail group Myer has clinched a deal with eBay to set up and operate what’s claimed to be the world’s... Read More
Dell Seeks $21bn For EMC Purchase
Dell is getting set to sell US$16 billion (A$21 billion) or more of secured bonds as early as Tuesday in a bid... Read More
Buffett Pumps $1bn Into Apple
Legendary investor, Warren Buffett has lifted his stake in Apple by a cool $1 billion. Apple stock closed higher on Monday after... Read More
Australia Now ‘Top Hotspot’ For Cybercrime: PwC
Australia is becoming a globally-recognised hotspot for cybercrime, with more than one in 10 Australian organisations reporting losses of more than $1... Read More
Lexar Appoints V-Sport For Photo Channel
Lexar has today advised that it has appointed V-Sport as its exclusive distributor for all Lexar products in the photographic channel following... Read More
Rejigged Hills Group Cashes Up
The once beleagured technology products distributor Hills Ltd says it has signed new finance facilities worth more than $50 million. The loans... 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
ATMs ‘On Borrowed Time’
No-one – except perhaps Fairfax Media – is suggesting they will go totally out of business, but a new report suggests ATM... Read More
ASX Set To Slam Door On Dodgy Tech Co. Listings
The Australian Securities Commission has proposed slamming the door shut on ASX listings by start-up companies that have little in the way... Read More
Airbus Enters Drone Industry
The Airbus Group says it wants to become a major player in the fast-growing global drone industry. Airbus CEO Tom Enders says... Read More
Xero Scores $207mil. Revenue
New Zealand-based Xero – a major accounting software house that competes with the likes of MYOB and Reckon – says it now... Read More
Sharp Management “Inefficient” Directors + Staff To Be Axed
Sharp is set to sack 12 of their 13 directors along with hundreds of staff, following the sale of the Company to... Read More
Dick Smith Senate Inquiry Stopped Claims Of A Report Misleading
Claims that the Federal Economics Reference Committee was set to release a report today into the collapse of Dick Smith has been... Read More
The Force Is With Electronic Arts
Giant video-game publisher Electronic Arts has posted a better-than-expected quarterly result. The result is in part due to the popular Star Wars... Read More
ASX Plans Crackdown On Listings By Low-Revenue Tech Start-Ups
The Australian Securities Exchange is looking to tighten its admission rules in a move that could see technology start-ups with limited revenue barred from... Read More
Tosh Names New CEO: PCs Up For Grabs
Toshiba has named a new chief executive, follows last year’s revelations of a $1.3 billion accounting scandal at the Japanese multinational conglomerate.... Read More
Warner Delivers Ultra High End Digital Sound
The Warner Music Group has became the first major music label to announce plans to support the release of downloadable songs in... Read More
Cook To Meet China Bosses
Apple CEO Tim Cook will visit Beijing later this month to meet high-level government officials, at a time when the iPhone maker... Read More
Hackett Backs Greens Call For Tax Credits On House Batteries
Redflow chairman Simon Hackett, pictured, has – as you might expect – been quick to seize on a statement by the Greens... Read More
Many Jobs To Go As Fairfax Ends SMH, Age Print Dailies
Hundreds more Fairfax journalists and other workers appear to be facing the sack after the publishing group said it will end publication... Read More
Online Retail Hits $928m In March
Online retail turnover in March contributed 3.1 per cent to total retail turnover, according the latest retail spending survey by the Australian... Read More
Harvey Norman Entity Buys Dick Smith Mac1 Enity
A previously unknown Dick Smith linked entity called Mac1 which operated as an Apple reseller in WA has been snapped up by... Read More
MS PC Market At Below 90pc
Apple’s Mac OS X is within a whisker of taking 10 percent of the personal computing market, and sending Microsoft’s share to... Read More