LG Electronics Delivers 6G Outdoors With New Power Capability
LG Electronics who got out of the 5G smartphone market earlier this year, is according to the Company now testing 6G claiming... Read More
Apple Pulls SharePlay Feature From iOS 15
Apple has delayed the release of its SharePlay tech, which was originally expected to launch alongside iOS 15 this year. The feature... Read More
Trend Micro Launches Security For Smart Devices
Trend Micro has unveiled a new all-in-one security service protecting PCs, Macs, mobile phones, tablets, and smart home devices. The cybersecurity firm’s... Read More
Semiconductor Market Recovering Faster Than Expected
The global semiconductor market is outpacing analysts estimates, with an updated forecast expecting a 25 per cent surge in 2021. This is... Read More
Gaming Drives Nvidia To Record Highs
Chipmaker Nvidia has posted record results for the August quarter, with revenues hitting all-time highs thanks to its Gaming, Data Center, and... Read More
Samsung Pledges To Stop Preloading Its Smartphones With Ads
It’s a bit rich when you spend north of a thousand bucks on a smartphone, only to then be advertised to within... Read More
Netflix Adds Spatial Audio Support On iPhone and iPad
Netflix has begun rolling out Spatial Audio support to its iPhone and iPad apps on iOS14, a feature that is already available... Read More
Netgear Tanks As Stock Issues Become Major Problem
Netgear Australia have gone remarkably quiet after their launch last year of a new premium priced range of W6 routers, now the... Read More
Bose’s QuietComfort 45 Headphones: Classic Design, New Features
Information and images of Bose’s upcoming QuietComfort headphones have been leaked, and from what the leaker is claiming, the headphones will retain... Read More
Oz Card Payments Drop As Online Shopping Grows
Card payments in Australia have fallen for the first time as the rate of card fraud increases, driven by an uptick in... Read More
World’s Leading TV Vendors Increase Panel Orders
TV production looks to be heating up in the third quarter of 2021, with the top nine TV vendors all increasing their... Read More
Olimpia Splendid Appoints New Commercial Sales Manager A/NZ
Olimpia Splendid has appointed Aymeric de Rosbo as Commercial Sales Manager for the Australia and New Zealand region. de Rosbo has worked... Read More
Brightstar Rebrands to Likewize, Focusing On Device Repair, Solutions
Brightstar has today announced a “comprehensive rebrand of its company”, marking the move from a mobile phone distributor to a complete support... Read More
Vaccines Mandatory For CES 2022
CES will require all attendees be vaccinated for its 2022 event in January as organisers look to move ahead with the show... Read More
Apple Watch Used By NY Gang To Steal $500K
A New York gang that targeted and robbed drug runners used an Apple Watch to track a criminal’s car and steal $500,000... Read More
PC Demand Falling Stock Still An Issue, Is A Dry Spell Looming?
As Australian retailers struggle to get stock of new PC’s manufacturers of component are claiming that global demand is starting to slow... Read More
Huawei Boss Vows To “Retake Our Throne” In Phone Market
Despite ongoing US sanctions causing mass havoc with production lines, Huawei rotating chairman Guo Ping has vowed that the Chinese tech giant... Read More
New SmartHouse Home Automation Issue Now Live At JB HI Fi
Home automation is in demand as Australian’s spend more time at home. In the latest edition of SmartHouse we look at the... Read More
Google Pixel 5a Not Coming To Australia
Google’s new Pixel 5a is finally available to consumers in a week’s time, but not if you live in Australia. Global supply... Read More
Samsung Galaxy Watches Now Provide ECGs and Blood Pressure Monitoring
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic will be the first smartwatches to provide both electrocardiogram readings and blood pressure monitoring in Australia.... Read More
End Of An Era: Mastercard First To Ditch Magnetic Stripes
Mastercard is set to ditch the magnetic stripe from all its cards by the end of the decade as chip cards continue... Read More
Growth At Coles, But No Data On Weekly Specials
Coles, which last year moved into weekly specials to take on Aldi, has seen both sales and profits grow for the 2021... Read More
Surging Demand Buoys Super Retail Group’s Record Sales
Super Retail Group, owner of Supercheap Auto, Rebel Sport, BCF, and Macpac, has seen sales soar to $3.45 billion for the 2020-21... Read More
Samsung Upgrades Galaxy A52 5G With Better Chip, New Colour
Samsung has announced a subtle upgrade to its Galaxy A52 5G, in the form of a A52s 5G, which now boasts a... Read More
NARTA Launches Initiative Against Modern Slavery
NARTA, Australia’s biggest retail services group, has introduced a new initiative to combat modern slavery and promote ethical buying. The group’s Modern... Read More
Xbox Bug Won’t Impact Newer Denon And Marantz Receivers
A HDMI error that was built into the majority of Sound United’s Denon and Marantz’s 2020 AV receivers, has been eradicated. All... Read More
Google Opens Preorders For $159 Pixel Buds
Google’s entry-level $159 Pixel Buds A-Series are now available for preorder in Australia. The buds, which feature built-in Google Assistant voice control,... Read More
JB Hi Fi Stock Levels Could Be A + After Breville Warning
The frank admissions made yesterday, by Australian appliance Company Breville regarding the supply chain problems facing brands are a sober warning for... Read More
Huawei Accused Of Stealing Data From Pakistan Government
US cloud software company has filed a lawsuit against Chinese company Huawei, alleging it stole its IP by attempting to reverse engineer... Read More
Qualcomm Launches 5G Drone Platform
Qualcomm has launched its Flight Platform in order to offer an easy reference platform for device makers. The company’s QRB5165 processor is... Read More
Apple Now Requires Twice-A-Week COVID Testing For Workers
Apple has sent out a memo that requires its corporate and retail employees who work amongst people or other staffers to get... Read More
Optus SubHub Brings Customer Subscriptions Together
Optus has unveiled a huge new subscription management service, SubHub, which promises to help customers save money by putting all their digital... Read More
Australia’s Cloud Infrastructure Market Worth $1.3B
Australia’s Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) market climbed to $1.36 billion in 2020, up 38 per cent from the previous year’s spend... Read More
Xbox Series X Gets 4K Dashboard
Microsoft is introducing a 4K dashboard to the Xbox Series X, with Xbox Insiders today gaining access to the increased resolution. “This... Read More
Peloton Offers Fix For Recalled Tread Models
Peloton has announced that owners of the regular Tread will finally be offered a fix, which involves a Peloton technician coming to... Read More
Government To Probe Tesla Autopilot Crashes
The US government has launched a formal investigation into numerous crashes involving Tesla’s Autopilot self-driving system failing to see emergency vehicles. The... Read More
Olympics Lift TV Ad-Spend To Pre-COVID Levels
Australia’s television advertising market enjoyed a 41.9 per cent leap in July, propelled by the Tokyo Olympics broadcast on Seven. Total television... Read More
M1X MacBook Pro Due November
The hotly-anticipated new MacBook Pro models with Apple’s own M1X silicon will hit stores by November, according to tech writer Mark Gurman,... Read More
Fitbit Rolls Out New Smartwatch Styles
Fitbit has launched a new colour for its flagship Sense smartwatch, as well as an array of new watch bands including additions... Read More
Breville Hits $1B Sales, Buoyed By Coffee Machine Demand
Australian kitchen king Breville has broken the $1 billion barrier in sales for the first time year, with sales for the year... Read More
What Next For Hisense After Senior Management Exit?
TV brand Hisense has made inroads into the bottom end of the value TV market and appliance market in Australia while also... Read More
LEAK: Google’s Pixel 5A Has A Huge Battery
Google’s Pixel 5a is expected to be announced this week, with a release date following in a week or two. Not surprisingly,... Read More
Hikvision Won’t Say If Its Cameras Are Used In Internment Camps
Chinese security camera manufacturer Hikvision, sold as EZVIZ in Australia, has remained elusive on whether its cameras are used in Uyghur internment... Read More
Aldi Expands Network With U.S. Employment Push
Aldi is hoping to hire more than 20,000 American workers in preparation for holiday shopping. The company is holding a ‘National Hiring... Read More
Microsoft Protests Amazon’s New $10B Government Contract
Microsoft Corporation has filed a protest against a Department of Defense contract that was awarded to Amazon. The contract is codenamed ‘WildandStormy’... Read More
Intel Muscles Into Gaming Graphics
Intel is turning the great graphics card war into a three-cornered fight, unveiling its own Intel Arc brand of high-performance GPUs. The... Read More
Lockdowns, Shortages & Rising Prices Collide At JB Hi Fi
Sales at consumer electronics and appliance retailers are falling as three issues collide, a shortage of stock, rising prices due to increased... Read More
Vocus Upgrades Optical Network With Nokia
Vocus enterprise, government, and wholesale customers will see a lift in their broadband speeds, the company says, with a major upgrade of... Read More
Over Half Of JB Hi-Fi Stores Now Closed
JB Hi-Fi enjoyed a bumper financial year in the twelve month period ending June, as its net profit jumped 67.4 per cent... Read More
Chinese Smartphone Brand Xiaomi Wants To Track You Even Without A SIM
Chinese brand Xiaomi, the world’s No. 2 smartphone company wants to spy on you even when there is no SIM in a... Read More
