Kogan Continues Growth Despite Inventory Bungle
Kogan has hailed its fifth straight year of growth since listing on the ASX in 2016, with revenue, sales, gross profit, and... Read More
Over $8B In Retail Trade Will Be Lost During Lockdowns
As South Australia enters its first day of lockdown, and Melbourne adds at least another seven days — with today’s skyrocketing case... Read More
Laser Snares New Distribution And Retail Partners In NZ
Consumer electronics company LASER has announced a massive expansion of the New Zealand business, including a new distributor, new retail partners, and... Read More
Qualcomm Squares Up To Apple, Boosts Investment In Wearables
Chipmaking giant Qualcomm is bolstering its presence in the wearables space and taking the fight to Apple with a new accelerator program.... Read More
Telstra Wages War Against Cute, Destructive Mice
Australian regional mouse plague has been destroying Telstra’ s network systems, and the area GM for NSW and ACT has had enough.... Read More
Microsoft’s Insider Look At The Many New Features In Teams
Microsoft has transformed Teams from a business tool into an all round communications tool, as part of its Windows 11 updated. Below... Read More
LG Compact Soundbar Officially Released After CES Debut
LG’s compact Eclair soundbar, first seen at CES this year, is on its way to lounge rooms with the global rollout now... Read More
Huawei Attempts To Buy Political Favour In The US
Huawei is hoping to buy its way off America’s Chinese ban list, spending over $1 million in the last three months attempting... Read More
Poms Hyper Ventilate About Router Heat Problems On 30 Degree Day
It’s a warm day in the UK and the British tech media are hyper ventilating running stories claiming that ‘Ta so called... Read More
Sony Extends Home Entertainment Offering With New Audio Systems
Sony is expanding its audio range with the launch of a new soundbar and home theatre system. The premium HT-A9 home theater... Read More
Apple Delays Office Return, Tells ‘Geniuses’ To Mask Up
Apple has pushed back its office reopening in the US by at least a month, following a surge in COVID-19 cases. The... Read More
Toys R Us To Open E-Commerce Warehouse In Melbourne
Toys R Us has announced a new purpose built warehouse distribution and adjoining head office located in the suburb of Clayton, in... Read More
All 2021 Foldable Phones Will Have The Same Samsung Display
The worst-kept secret in the industry is that Google is working on a foldable Pixel phone. Codenamed Google Pixel Fold, many expected... Read More
Netflix Subscriptions Slow As Competition Heats Up
As the content streaming market gets brutally competitive, Netflix is struggling to attract new subscribers as growth slows and their content lacks... Read More
Oppo Launch Affordable True Wireless Earbuds
Oppo has launched the Oppo Enco Free2 earbuds, a true wireless AirPods alternative, with a very similar design. The earbuds were designed... Read More
Microsoft Secures Court Order To Take Down Malicious Domains
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has secured a court order to take down “homoglyph” – or imposter – domains used in a variety... Read More
Watch Jeff Bezos Fly To The Edge Of Space Tonight
Tonight, Jeff Bezos, and three other passengers, his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Dutch student Oliver Daemen,... Read More
JB Hi Fi Online Sales Break Records, Up 78%
JB Hi Fi online sales are booming, up 78.1% during the past 12 months, as consumers chase down notebooks monitors and webcams,... Read More
Afterpay Combats Apple, PayPal Challenge By Going After The Big Four
After both Apple and PayPal introduced buy now pay later services aimed to crush AfterPay’s market dominance last week, the company has... Read More
“A Robust Repair Ecosystem Is Essential”: Right To Repair Public Hearings Enter Day Two
The Right To Repair public hearings swing into the second day of a three-day process, with a number of tech industry representatives... Read More
Leaks Back Up Windows 11 October Release Rumours
Leaks are fuelling speculation of an October launch for Windows 11, with Intel the latest company to hint at the new operating... Read More
COVID and Retail: Negative Sales Growth Expected
As NSW records 78 new cases of COVID-19, and Melbourne’s lockdown extended until at least July 27, analysts are warning that the... Read More
Who Would Really Benefit From A Telstra Digicel Buyout?
Concerns have been raised about Telstra being in the hunt for telco Digicel Pacific, with shareholders and analysts suspecting the potential buyout... Read More
World’s Biggest Video Game Company Tencent Gets Even Bigger
Tencent will buy UK video game producer Sumo Group, furthering its current reign over the video games sector. The Chinese gaming giant... Read More
Former Channel 7 & 9 Boss David Leckie Has Died
Former Channel 7 boss David Leckie has died, aged 70. Leckie passed away at his family’s property, Mulberry Farm after a long... Read More
What’s Wrong At Winning? Questionable Links With Custom Installer Group
Is something wrong at Winnings? as management shuffle Company structures around and the Winnings Group gets into bed with a Queensland custom... Read More
Peloton Moves Into Gaming
As Peloton launch in Australia, the fitness company announces its very first video game, Lanebreak. Not surprisingly, Lanebreak utilises its range of... Read More
Bose Planning Successor To QuietComfort Headphones
Bose is planning a follow-up to its popular QuietComfort 35 II noise-cancelling headphones, according to a filing with the US Federal Communications... Read More
ACCC Extends ‘Superfast Broadband’ Access Until 2026
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has extended its Superfast Broadband Access Service declaration for a further five years. This allows service... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: JB Hi-Fi Sales Wobble But Record Results Over 2019
JB Hi-Fi has issued a stark warning claiming that sales have suffered over the first month of the new financial year. Sales... Read More
Oz, US, And UK Officially Blame China For Microsoft Email Hack
The US and UK governments, plus their allies, have today formally blamed the Chinese government for “malicious cyber activities,” including the Microsoft... Read More
Amazon Disables Cloud Accounts Linked To Israeli Firm NSO
Amazon Web Services has disabled infrastructure and accounts linked to Israeli surveillance organisation NSO. According to Vice, NSO used spyware to hack... Read More
“Major” Security Issues In Apple iMessage
iPhone spyware developed by the NSO has exposed “major” security problems with Apple’s iMessage. Various reports, including those by Amnesty International and Citizen Lab,... Read More
Ecovacs Launches New Feature-Packed Robovac
Robovac specialist Ecovacs has unveiled its newest robotic vacuum, which it says packs in premium features at a mid-tier price point. The... Read More
Zoom Stock Plummets After News Of $14.7B Five9 Deal
Zoom’s stock tanked yesterday after the company announced it plans to buy call centre software business Five9 for $USD14.7 billion. An hour... Read More
Online Essentials Shopping Not Going Anywhere Post-Pandemic
As foot traffic to Sydney and Melbourne retailers dries up due to the COVID lockdowns, customers have signalled that online shopping for... Read More
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
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
Microsoft Merges Oz/NZ Businesses After Tough Year
Microsoft is merging its Australian and New Zealand businesses into a single regional office. The move by the SaaS giant is expected... 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
WhatsApp Will Soon Be Usable Across Multiple Devices
After years of customer demand, Facebook-owned encrypted chat app WhatsApp is finally adding true multi-device support. Where previously all of a user’s... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: Shriro Hacked Feds Cyber Security Called In
Sydney based appliance distributor Shriro Holdings has been hacked with the business impacted claims management. CEO Tim Hargraves claims that the distributor... Read More
Telstra Confirms Interest In Huge Govt-Backed Pacific Expansion
Telstra has confirmed rumours it is looking to expand its footprint into the South Pacific with a potential $2 billion acquisition. The... 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
New Android TV Beta Delivers Image, UI Enhancements
Google has launched the newest beta for Android 12 on TVs, featuring better 4K support and improved settings for refresh rates. The... 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
