NBN Aims To Encourage Retailers With New Pricing
NBN will introduce a new discount model for its connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) charge, which it states is designed to encourage greater... Read More
Apple Move To Revamp Stores As New iPhone Fails To Get Traction
Apple who is under pressure to keep increasing sales after a lukewarm launch of their iPhone SE vs iPhone 5S is set... Read More
HP Snubs Mainstream Retailers By Selling Notebooks In Discount Stores & Direct
Hewlett Packard who will in the early hours of Wednesday morning announce what they claim is the worlds thinnest premium notebook, has... Read More
Choice Journalist Seriously Screws Up Over Samsung Fire Claim
Choice the consumer watchdog who loves telling consumer electronics vendors how they should run their business have been left with egg on... Read More
Optus To Cut Jobs Amid Structural Changes
Optus is making changes to the structure of its Consumer and Enterprise divisions as part of its transformation strategy, with a number... Read More
ACCC Takes Federal Court Action Against SoleNet And Sure Telecom
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has commenced Federal Court proceedings against corporations trading as SoleNet and Sure Telecom (the Harrison... Read More
Customers Frustrated, Telstra Free Data Day Delivers Record Usage
While customers again took to social media to complain about service problems, Telstra states that its mobile network “performed strongly” yesterday during... Read More
Quickflix CEO To Take A Pay Cut, More Staff Lay-Offs
Quickflix will reduce its staff by an additional 15 per cent, along with shutting down its Sydney CBD and Auckland offices, while... Read More
QualiFi Announces Several New Hirings
QualiFi has made a number of new appointments, with Sean O’Carroll joining the company in a sales and product management role. O’Carroll,... Read More
Drones Ain’t Drones Any More Down Under – They’re RPAs
Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority has published new rules for drone operation in Australia, bringing them more into line with international regulations.... Read More
After Warranty Scandal HP Moves To Launch ‘Thinnest Laptop Ever’
Hewlett Packard who have been battling corruption and dodgy practises allegations, is hoping that a thin laptop will turn their fortunes around.... Read More
Profits Rocket As Consumers Take To Huawei Smartphones
Chinese tech giant Huawei who have recently expanded their product offering in Australia via both carriers and CE retailers said profits for... Read More
Revenue Down Profits Up At Panasonic OZ As They Transition From Being A Telly Company
Panasonic Australia is in transition mode, after generating 50% of their revenues four years ago selling top end plasma TV’s they are... Read More
RIO Snares Highly Rated BenQ W3000 Projector Distribution Deal
Days after snaring the rights to several leading sound brands Melbourne based distributor Rio has snared the rights to the W3000 BenQ... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Norman Franchisees Given Confidential Dick Smith Sales Numbers, As ASIC Probe Collapse
Harvey Norman franchisees have been given the sales records of Dick Smith stores close to where they operate, the information was supplied... Read More
LG Innotek Ramps Up Wireless Charging Speeds
LG Innotek is ramping up wireless charging speeds, unveiling a new 15 W transmission module, with mass production slated to commence this... Read More
Strong Start: Fitbit Ships More Than 1M Blaze Units
Fitbit has revealed that it has shipped more than one million Fitbit Blaze smart fitness watches in the Blaze’s first month of... Read More
End Of The Era Of Double-Digit Smartphone Growth
For the first time, global smartphone sales are set to post single-digit growth in 2016, according to Gartner. Gartner forecasts that global... Read More
4500 Leagues Under The Sea
Cap’n Slattery brings Telstra, Singtel on board for new cable. SYDNEY – After many starts and fizzes, undersea cable entrepreneur Bevan Slattery’s long-running move... Read More
New Samsung Galaxy TabPro S, Superior To Microsoft Surface Pro 4
Samsung who earlier this month wowed the world with their new Galaxy 7 smartphone, has done it again with a brand new... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: JB Hi Fi Score Major Duty Free Airport Deal
Days after Harvey Norman walked away from buying the Dick Smith Move stores at Australian airports, JB Hi Fi has cut a... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: Maxwell Shut Up Shop, TNS Take Over Selected Brand Distribution
Photo Industry distributor Maxwell International is shutting up shop as of the end of April. The Company currently distributes Lowepro, Joby, Tamron,... Read More
Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Dick Smith Stock To Be Dumped
Millions of dollars’ worth of Dick Smith stock that failed to sell despite heavily marketed closing down sales, is set to be... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Is Lenovo set to buy Lexmark?
According to insider the world’s #1 PC Company is currently in discussions with the US based printer manufacturer Lexmark to acquire the... Read More
Consumers Happy With Wearable Hardware, But Apps Rate Lower
Consumers are much happier with their wearable hardware than corresponding apps, according to a new report from Argus Insights. As far as... Read More
How To Turn an Excellent $777 55″ Aldi 4K UHD TV Into a Top End Streaming TV For $59
There are two types of Ultra High Definition TV’s, there are those that cost an arm and a leg and are priced... Read More
Sony To Introduce Ultra 4K Movie Streaming Service
Sony who has been losing share in the Australian TV market will next week introduce a 4K movie streaming service. Owners of... Read More
EXCLUSIVE Samsung Milk Goes Off In OZ
Samsung Milk has gone sour with the music service set to be closed down in Australia on April 28th, customers were told... Read More
BenQ Brings W3000 Home Projector To Oz
BenQ is adding to its local projector line-up, bringing the W3000 home video projector to the Australian market. The W3000 achieves the... Read More
Lexar 200 GB microSDXC UHS-I Card Launches In Aussie Market
Lexar’s new 200 GB Lexar High-Performance microSDXC UHS-I memory card, designed for sports camcorders, tablets and smartphones, has landed in the Australian... Read More
Oculus Rift VR Headsets Have Begun Shipping
The Oculus Rift headset has begun shipping, with the virtual reality market poised for a surge of activity in the coming months... Read More
Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream Router Is Decked Out For 4K Streaming
Linksys’ Max-Stream AC1900 MU-MIMO Gigabit Wi-Fi Router (EA7500) has landed locally, decked out to deliver 4K streaming. The EA7500 leverages 802.11ac Wave... Read More
LG Introduces UX 5.0 Interface Ahead Of G5 Launch
Ahead of the launch of its next-gen flagship LG G5 smartphone, LG has unveiled a new version of its mobile user interface... Read More
Valve & Steam Online Gaming Platform Set To Be Nobbled By Federal Court
Online game Company Valve the operators of the Steam gaming platform, is facing hefty fines in the Australian Federal Court after it... Read More
DeLonghi Delivers One-Touch Coffee With PrimaDonna Elite
DeLonghi’s PrimaDonna Elite coffee machine, designed to deliver barista-quality coffee at the touch of a button and decked out with “infinite personalisation... Read More
Former Dick Smith & Sony Executive To Head Appliances At Samsung
Former Dick Smith Interim General Manager Jeremy Senior has been appointed Director, Home Appliances at Samsung. Senior, spent the last 18 months... Read More
COMMENT Is Telstra another Vodafone In The Making?
The constant collapse of the so called bullet proof Telstra mobile network has come at the worst possible time for Telstra who... Read More
Sony To Deliver New Heavy Duty High Performance PS4
Playstation retailers such as EB Games, JB Hi Fi and Harvey Norman could get a major boost this Xmas as Sony moves... Read More
Dick Smith Online Set To Be More Of The Same Under Kogan
Online publicity junkie Ruslan Kogan who recently acquired the Dick Smith name and on-line web site is set to continue selling, notebooks,... Read More
Acer + Lenovo Restructure As Microsoft Shafts Both PC Players
Acer who next month will reveal a new generation of PC products at an event in New York is set to be... Read More
Wafer Thin 6.0mm Liquid Metal iPhone Set To Be Revealed In September
Back in 2013 Apple was desperate to deliver a knockout blow against Samsung. Now liquid metal is back on the agenda at... Read More
Harvey Norman Back Selling Legit Revo Glider Hoverboards
Harvey Norman will on Tuesday, be one of the only retailers in Australia offering a legitimate approved Revo Glider hoverboard for sale,... Read More
How Would You Like To Listen To Sound Through The Best Headphones In The World? We Have and It’s One Awesome Experience.
I often get asked the question, who has the best headphones? My answer is always, what do you want to listen to... Read More
Tablet Shipments Tumbling As Market Shifts
The tablet market is set to shrink over the next five years, according to ABI Research, which has forecast a fall from... Read More
TPG Targets Small Business Market With New NBN Bundles
TPG has released a number of new NBN business bundles, which include a VoIP-based voice service, targeted at the small business market.... Read More
Apple Pay Expansion: Coming To Websites This Year?
Apple has been telling potential partners that it is looking to bring its Apple Pay payments service to websites later this year,... Read More
New Hisense TV’s Take It Right Up To Overpriced LG OLED TV’s
Hisense who is now the #3 TV brand in Australia has launched a stunning new range of ULED TV’s at this year’s... Read More
ACCC Hoverboard Ban Botched Claim OZ Sellers, Rouge Chinese Sellers Not Regulated
Serious questions have been raised after The Minister for Small Business and Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer last week, banned sales of what... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Powermove Snare Toshiba TV Brand
On the day that Toshiba announced that they are getting out of appliances worldwide, Adelaide based distributor Powermove told retailers that they... Read More
UPDATED: Telstra Says “Sorry” For Third Big Outage In 30 Days
Telstra who took a week to fix BigPond broadband problems over Xmas then had two major mobile outages back to back, is... Read More
