Online Sales Skyrocket As Aussies Stay Locked Down
Online sales have surged due to pandemic lockdowns, with July figures breaking records as customers shop from home, putting added strain on... Read More
Fujifilm Launches Affordable Medium-Format Camera
Fujifilm has launched a new mirrorless digital camera, which is being described as its most affordable medium-format camera yet. The new GFX50S... Read More
Android Security Patch Available For Samsung Galaxy S20 Series
Samsung devices are the first to receive the new September 2021 Android security patch, with all S20 models now in line for... Read More
Dyson Working On Robot That Climbs Stairs
Dyson has filed patented designs for robots who will be able to navigate staircases. Bloomberg is reporting that Dyson’s robotics unit has... Read More
Samsung Invests Heavily In Building Local Chip Supply Chain
After close to two years of supply chain disruption and components shortages that have crippled the semiconductor market, Samsung is invest in... Read More
Apple Delays Child Abuse Scanning Plans
Apple has announced it will delay its controversial plans to scan users photos for child sex abuse material, following continued criticism from... Read More
New Nokia 5G Device has Strange Shaped Camera
HMD Global who hold the licence to manufacture smartphones with a Nokia monika, and five years on are struggling to get traction... Read More
Retailers Set To Benefit From $200Billion In Consumer Savings Supply Issues A Problem
Online trading is booming, consumers are gravitating to known brands, and premium priced products according to JB Hi Fi with a flood... Read More
Bang & Olufsen Speaker First To Meet Sustainability Certification
Bang & Olufsen’s Beosound Level isn’t just an attractive looking speaker that packs a mighty sound, it is now the first and... Read More
ABBA Returns 40 Years On, You Have To See Them Now
Yamaha speakers and Sennheiser headphones, along with avatars and some of the worlds latest effects technology are front, and centre of a... Read More
Cellnet Shares Dive After Optus Kills Accessories Deal
Cellnet shares have plunged 12.5 per cent after the distributor announced Optus would not be renewing its mobile accessories supply agreement. The... Read More
Bunnings To Reopen Stores On Monday
Bunnings will reopen the majority of its Sydney stores on Monday, however any franchises in the 12 LGAs of concern will remain... Read More
Asus Pushes Hard Into OLED Notebooks
Asus has launched a slew of new laptops with OLED screens, including high-end models targeted at creatives as well as entry-level Vivobooks.... Read More
NBN Co. Rolls Out COVID Credit Payments
NBN Co will give $3.7m of extra capacity to retailers, in the midst of lockdowns that have seen customers demanding faster broadband... Read More
Nokia Smartphone Operation Not Taken Seriously In Australia
How, serious does Nokia smartphone maker HMD Global take Australia, not much if their global site is anything to go by. Then... Read More
Amazon-Branded TVs Coming
Amazon will be taking on electronics giants Samsung and LG with the release of its own Amazon-branded TVs, which may arrive as... Read More
Top-Selling TP-Link Router Full Of Security Holes
Serious security flaws have been discovered in a popular TP-Link router, with users urged to update vulnerable outdated firmware as soon as... Read More
Arlo Products Now Speak To Siri, Google, Alexa, Etc.
Arlo has updated its range of security IoT products to speak to Google, Alexa, Siri, IFTTT and Samsung SmartThings, a pre-emptive move ahead... Read More
Samsung Debuts Two New Mobile Camera Sensors, Including First 200MP
Samsung has, as promised, unveiled what it bills as an industry-first 200-megapixel mobile camera sensor, as well as a 50-megapixel sensor with... Read More
Google Tightens Guidelines For Wear OS 3 Apps
Google has brought in new app quality guidelines for its Wear OS 3, aimed at increasing the quality of all apps on... Read More
Has Samsung Just Snookered Apple’s Plan For The iPhone
A move by Samsung to secure the patent rights for a new camera technology that was initially used in the Galaxy S20,... Read More
Microsoft Gives Nov Deadline To Upgrade From Outlook To 365
Microsoft has let its commercial customers know that they have until November 1 to upgrade their old versions of Outlook to the... Read More
YouTube Premium & Music Subscribers Top 50 Million
YouTube’s paid services have hit an important milestone, with 50 million people now subscribed to YouTube Music and YouTube Premium (formerly YouTube... Read More
Apple Finally Allows Apps To Link To Own Payment Options
In a huge concession, Apple has said it will soon allow ‘reader’ apps to create in-app links to their own websites, which... Read More
Qualcomm Claims aptX Lossless Gives CD-Quality Over Bluetooth
Qualcomm has introduced its new audio codec, aptX Lossless, which it claims can provide lossless CD-quality (16-bit, 44.1kHz) audio over Bluetooth, the... Read More
Apple Must Face Siri Privacy Lawsuit
Apple must face almost all claims in a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that Siri invades user privacy, a federal judge ruled... Read More
WhatsApp Fined $361 Million For Breaching Privacy Laws
WhatsApp has been fined AUD$360.57 million for a 2018 breach of the European Union’s data privacy rules. Under the ruling, made by... Read More
REVIEW $899 Motorola Edge 20 Pro, An Affordable Premium Smartphone
I have just reviewed the new $899 Motorola Edge 20 Pro a smartphone that is a critical product for Motorola as it’s... Read More
Lenovo A/NZ Doubles Profits For FY21
Lenovo Australia and New Zealand has had an incredible year, posting a profit of $13.4 million, a post-income tax leap of 116... Read More
Department Of Justice Readying Case Against Google
The U.S. Justice Department is preparing a second antitrust lawsuit against Google, over its digital advertising arm. This comes after Google announced... Read More
Samsung S21 FE Manual Leaks, No MicroSD Slot
The manual for Samsung’s yet-unannounced Galaxy S21 Fan Edition has leaked online, revealing official images of the new phone as well as... Read More
Telstra To Reward Fully-Vaxxed Customers
Telstra has announced that all its fully vaccinated customers will receive 2,500 Telstra Plus Points, which are equal to around $25, and... Read More
Apple Watch Adding Blood Monitor, Fertility Tools
Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company’s innovations in the health sector will be its “greatest contribution to mankind” and it... Read More
Who Will Solomon Lew Nominate For The Myer Board Today?
The battle between Solomon Lew and the Myer board comes to a head at 5pm today, as nominations for a potential board... Read More
JVC Reveals New 8K Laser Projectors
JVC has officially launched what it bills as the world’s first 8K laser projectors with HDMI 2.1, after teasing them a month... Read More
Samsung May Unveil A 200MP Camera Sensor Today
Throughout all of 2021, reports have swirled that Samsung is planning a 200MP camera sensor. It’s just gone September, and already to... Read More
Foxtel Rolls Out Doco Channel As Aussie Interest Soars
Foxtel is launching a new dedicated documentary channel as research shows Australian interest in documentaries is the highest ever. The launch of... Read More
Philips Hue Links Up With Spotify, Launches New Range
Philips Hue has unveiled a new range of smart lighting products, as well as software updates including deep integration with Spotify. Headlining... Read More
Microsoft Announce ‘Fall Event’, New Surface Products Expected
Microsoft has announced an online-only “Fall 2021 Event” that will take place on September 22. It is expected that Microsoft will use... Read More
Google Making Its Own CPUs For Chromebooks
During this extended chip shortage, both Apple and Google seem to have learned that making its own in-house processors provides a much... Read More
Philips OLED TV’s With B&W Soundbar Revealed No News Re OZ
Global distributor TP Vision have been telling ChannelNews for 18 months that they are set to launch a premium TV range in... Read More
How Did Harvey Norman Get JobKeeper? Gerry Harvey Slammed Again
COMMENT: Days after Harvey Norman handed back $6M in JobKeeper payments to the Federal Government, billionaire Chairman Gerry Harvey is being pillored... Read More
Wearables Up More Than 30% In 2Q21, Apple Still #1
Global shipments of wearables are up by almost a third year-on-year as Apple continues to dominate the market. Data from the International... Read More
ICT Spending Stable In Oz And NZ, Despite Pandemic
Spending on information and communication technology (ICT) has held steady in Australia and New Zealand despite the pandemic, though consumer spending is... Read More
Australia Post Hit Pause To Deal With Backlog
Australia Post has announced today that will temporarily pause all Parcel Post collections from eCommerce retailers in NSW, ACT and VIC for... Read More
Supply Issues & Losses Still Plaguing LIFX Company
The lights are still out for smart LIFX light globe Company Buddy Technologies who is still losing money and has more liabilities... Read More
Flubot Text Scam Turns To Phony Parcels
The Flubot malware scam plaguing Australian phones has a new trick, the ACCC has warned, with messages now telling potential victims a... Read More
Kids Under 12 Getting Smartphones Earlier
Smartphones are becoming ever more popular for kids, with more than one in three Australian children under 12 now having a phone.... Read More
Legacy Audio Brand Aiwa Files For Bankruptcy
The legendary Aiwa brand, responsible for inventing the very first cassette tape recording back in 1964, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.... Read More
Are You Over Zoom? So Are Investors As Stock Plunges
It’s not just work at home participants that are sick of Zoom, now investors are ditching the stock with the video conference... Read More
