PwC Report Shows 2020 Was A Good Year For Foxtel
Despite losing 267,000 cable customers for its premium box service during 2020, Foxtel had an impressive 2020, migrating numerous customers across to... Read More
Vinyl Sales Set To Overtake CDs For First Time In Oz
Vinyl sales are set to overtake those of compact discs for the first time in Australia since CDs became the dominant musical... Read More
Netflix Aren’t Moving Into Gaming, But Interactive Films
Despite reports that Netflix are launching a gaming division, it appears that what the company is actually doing is planning to produce... Read More
5G Product Vendor Inseego Enters Australian Market
US-based mobile and internet of things vendor Inseego has signed a distribution deal with Dicker Data that will see its full range... Read More
Scooter Battery Fire Prompts ACT Action
Two incidents in Canberra have highlighted one of the dangers of moving towards an electric transport future. The ACT Government says it will... Read More
Warrp Sign Ups Spike
Australia’s newest online marketplace platform, Warrp, says it has seen a 138 percent spike in new sign-ups and a top 100 app... Read More
Shut Stores, Disti Issues, COVID In Warehouses: Retail Vs. Lockdown
2020 was a terrible year for humanity, but a fantastic year for home entertainment retailers. JB Hi-Fi posted an underlying net profit... Read More
Chip Wars: Intel Move To Buy $30b Foundry As TSMC Move Into US, Japan
As US President Joe Biden promises billions of dollars to build American capacitor production, Intel are looking to become the world’s number... Read More
Google’s Pixel 6 XL Will Feature Best Zoom Lens Yet
Google’s forthcoming Pixel 6 XL smartphone is expected to come with a 5X ultra tele camera, the company’s best zoom lens to... Read More
John McAfee Died Broke After Shelling Out $100M On ‘Bizarre’ Mansions
The story about tech’s most notorious figure, John McAfee, gets stranger and stranger, as his biographer claims he died penniless, blowing a... Read More
Large OLED Panel Shortage Forecast For 2024, Possibly 2023
The increased demand for OLED televisions will eventually lead to a shortage of large OLED panels which will hit by 2024, warns... Read More
Zelda NES Cartridge Sells For World Record At Auction
A sealed Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge of The Legend of Zelda has sold for a “world record” sum of US$870,000, according to... Read More
Netflix Fires Execs for Insulting Bosses Over Slack
Netflix has reportedly fired three senior marketing executives who were caught insulting their bosses on a Slack chat. According to The Hollywood... Read More
Ultra-Affordable Galaxy Tab A7 Lite Out Now
Samsung Electronics Australia has released the Galaxy Tab A7 Lite in Australia from today, priced at $249 for the Wi-Fi version and... Read More
Aust IT Spending To Grow 6.4% As Vaccines Roll Out
Australia’s IT and technology spending is expected to reach almost $103 billion this year, up by 6.4 percent, according to researcher Gartner.... Read More
Facebook Pay Takes On PayPal In Payment Wars
Facebook are expanding its Facebook Pay services, currently only used on its own websites, to compete with PayPal, Amazon Pay and others.... Read More
Sega Sued Yet Again Over “Rigged” Arcade Game
Sega is facing a lawsuit over a “rigged” game cabinet found in shopping centres and arcades. The game Key Master (image from... Read More
Telstra CEO Slams Federal MPs In Rural Councils
Telstra chief executive Andy Penn has taken aim at Federal MPs who fail to convince rural councils to agree to tower installation,... Read More
Lockdown Bill Keeps Rising As Shopping Centres Squeezed
Pandemic lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne are hammering shopping centres and discretionary retail as the Australian Retailers Association warns of a $7... Read More
Xiaomi Shipped More Smartphones Than Apple In Q2
The US cooling on Chinese products has done little to stop the global growth of Xiaomi, who breezed past Apple to become... Read More
Interdyn Brands Intros Debut Pro Turntable
Interdyn Brands has introduced the Debut Pro turntable as well as the Pick-It Pro cartridge and Record Puck Pro to the Pro-Ject... Read More
AusPost Execs Follow Holgate Through The Out Slot
Not surprisingly, the public shaming and scapegoating of former Australia Post head Christine Holgate has led to a mass exodus of execs... Read More
Google Workers As Productive At Home, Yet Ordered Back To Office
Google is sticking to its plan to bring most employees back to the office by September, despite internal research displaying that most... Read More
Motorola Appoints Kurt Bonnici As New Head Of Oz/NZ
Kurt Bonnici has today been announced as Head of Motorola for Australia and New Zealand. Bonnici was previously Business Development Manager ANZ,... Read More
Regulator Sues Amazon Over Dangerous Products
Amazon has been hit with a product safety lawsuit accusing the online retail giant of not doing enough about hundreds of thousands... Read More
LG Makes $7B Push Into Battery Manufacturing Business
LG has earmarked $6.96 billion dollars over the next four years to greatly expand its battery production operations, as the electric vehicle,... Read More
Tidal Offers Three Months Free For Premium And HiFi Tiers
Tidal is offering customers three whole months to get used to its Premium and HiFi Plus tiers, with a free offer to... Read More
Apple Orders 20% Increase In 2021 iPhone Production
Apple has tasked its suppliers with building 90 million next-generation iPhones this year, a 20 per cent leap from its 2020 iPhone... Read More
Amazon Planning Wearable Child Tracker
After being given permission earlier this week by the FCC to monitor your sleep using radio waves, Amazon is now considering developing... Read More
Avast and NortonLifeLock In Merger Talks
Cybersecurity software company Avast is in “advanced talks” to merge with security firm NortonLifeLock. However, Avast were cautious in a statement announcing... Read More
Visa Backs CryptoSpend Card
Global credit card giant Visa has approved users of Australian start-up CryptoSpend to use its tap and go system to pay with... Read More
REPORT: Almost All 2021 OLED Phones Have 6-Inch Screens
A study of the 122 models of OLED smartphones that were launched during the first half of 2021 found that just three... Read More
Russian Ransomware Gang Suddenly Disappear From Internet
A Russian ransomware gang that is responsible for hundreds of attacks of major businesses around the globe has gone dark. A blog... Read More
Mobile Gaming Spending Rises Despite Lockdowns Easing
Mobile gaming continues to be a growth area, as spending rose 10 per cent in June despite COVID-19 lockdown restrictions being lifted... Read More
Facebook Wants ‘Biased’ FTC Chair Removed From Antitrust Hearing
Facebook has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to recuse chair Lina Khan from the current antitrust action against the company, arguing her... Read More
Transport Union Strike Could Spell Havoc For Retail
The Transport Workers Union is threatening to take strike action in protest at transport company Toll, who are planning to lower working... Read More
Uniden’s 5MP Indoor Pan And Tilt Smart Camera Will Keep Guard
Uniden has released a new indoor smart camera, the Guardian App Cam HOME+, which boasts 2.5K video resolution and three times optical... Read More
Fire-Damaged Chip Factory Back To 100% From Next Week
Renesas Electronics, one of the world’s top supplying of semiconductors, has announced it will be back to full product shipment levels from... Read More
Audit Finds Oz Telcos Ill-Equipped To Deal With Vulnerable
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has today released a proposed Statement of Expectations for Australian telcos, after an audit found the... Read More
ASIC Warns About Taking Advice From Finfluencers
ASIC has raised concerns about so-called finfluencers who are using social media to attract young investors with questionable financial advice. ASIC’s Executive... Read More
Peloton Launches In Australia Today, And It’s Very Expensive
Peloton has had a nightmarish run of late, with a lawsuit for giving a kid third-degree burns, the death of another child,... Read More
New Fibre Contract Awarded For NBN Rollout
Infrastructure provider Ventia will be providing design and build services for the next stage of the NBN Co’s fibre upgrade project. The... Read More
Samsung Takes On Sony For In-Car Image Sensor Market
Samsung is hoping to take a considerable bit out of Sony’s dominance in the image sensor market for automobiles, launching the new... Read More
Oppo’s Find X3 Pro Phone Doubles As A Microscope
Oppo’s new Find X3 Pro smartphone can operate as a microscope, offering a 50Mp camera that zooms to an incredible level of... Read More
Ring Security Cameras Now Have End-To-End Encryption
Ring has made a move to ensure it stands out from competitors such as Arlo and Google Nest: end-to-end encryption for its... Read More
Rio Sound and Vision Launching World’s Biggest AV Showroom In Australia
Rio Sound and Vision have released a teaser trailer for its state of the art, world’s largest AV showroom, which is opening... Read More
PayPal Aim To Crush Afterpay With ‘Pay In 4’ And No Late Fees
PayPal has launched a very familiar-sounding “Pay in 4” four-part payment instalment option in Australia in a bid to crush Afterpay. There... Read More
Google Hit With $796m Fine For Ignoring Copyright Orders
France’s competition authority has hit Google with a massive $US593m finer ($AUD796m) for ignoring orders to broker paid deals with news publishers... Read More
Apple Introduces Battery Pack For iPhone 12
Apple has introduced a MagSafe Battery Pack for the iPhone 12. The pack is available to order from Apple’s Australian store for... Read More
Business Rescue Packages Announced For Sydney
Scott Morrison has announced today that the Commonwealth will provide targeted support to both individuals and businesses impacted by the ongoing Sydney... Read More