Target Commercial Model Reset Is Complete, Says Wesfarmers
Target is now a “smaller and simpler business with a significantly reduced fixed cost base,” according to Wesfarmers, who held a Strategy... Read More
Twitter Is Now Fact-Checking Your Tweets
Twitter is rife with fake news, false information, and good ol’ idiotic ignorance, but now it is looking to correct this flood... Read More
Chip Giants See Revenue Surge
Market research firm TrendForce says the world’s 10 biggest chip manufacturing companies saw revenues surge to a record high in Q1 2021.... Read More
Ikea Accidentally Confirms A New Sonos-Powered Symfonisk Smart Speaker
These days it seems that most product leaks are the result of retails inadvertently putting up a product description before the company... Read More
Warner Bros Discovery New Name In Streaming Wars
The next big player in the streaming wars now has been given a name by owner AT&T: Warner Bros. Discovery. Discovery CEO... Read More
Microsoft Announces Release Date For New Windows
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella has described the forthcoming update to Windows as the “most significant” overhaul in a decade. The... Read More
Speculation, Target Up For Sale & Officeworks Moving Into Education Market
Wesfarmers has today briefed the market at a fund’s managers event with speculation mounting that the group is looking to sell the... Read More
Yes, The Global Microchip Shortage Is COVID’s Fault. No, It Won’t End Any Time Soon
The manufacturing world is facing one of its greatest challenges in years — a global shortage of semiconductors — and there doesn’t... Read More
“PS5-Level” Gaming Coming To Tesla Cars
High-powered gaming will soon be found in an unexpected place: the infotainment systems of Tesla cars. The new gaming platforms, built on... Read More
The Chaser Mocks Harvey Norman With Front-Of-Store Spruiker
Harvey Norman’s tone deaf response to calls it should return JobKeeper payments, and its subsequent Twitter debacle has resulted in The Chaser... Read More
Amazon Prime Day 2021 Going Ahead Next Month
Amazon Prime Day 2021 is set to kick off on June 21, with global deals available to Australian customers until June 23.... Read More
Woolworths Launches New Payments System Wpay
Woolworths is taking on the big four with its new stand-alone payments system, Wpay. The supermarket giant is currently the country’s fifth-largest... Read More
Bring Back JobKeeper, Says ARA As Lockdown Bites
JobKeeper needs to make a comeback, says the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) as Melbourne’s latest lockdown is extended by another week. With... Read More
IDC Reveals 5G Smartphone Numbers For Oz
IDC’s newly released Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows 5G smartphone shipments to Australia have increased from 14 per cent of the market... Read More
Samsung To Have First Ever Phone With Ray Tracing
In a surprise revelation, Samsung’s next flagship handset has been confirmed as the first mobile phone ever to have ray tracing capabilities.... Read More
Chip-Gate Slows Acer Production
Computer maker Acer says the global chip shortage may slow laptop production until at least next year. The company warned device prices... Read More
LG Australia Bounces Back To Growth During FY20
LG Electronics Australia has recorded after-tax profit up to A$15.8 million, an increase of $12 million, while revenue came in just under... Read More
Zoom’s Q1 Financials Top Analyst Predictions
Zoom has blasted past Wall Street predictions, with its first quarter 2021 total revenue reaching $956.2 million, up 191 per cent year on... Read More
Federal Court Slugs Vocus $2.5 Million For Dodo And iPrimus Claims
Dodo and iPrimus, both owned by the Vocus Group, have been fined to the tune of $2.5 million between them for misleading... Read More
Sony’s New Buds Expensive, According To Leak
If you have been waiting for the new Sony wireless ear buds, they will set you back a pretty penny. A Slovakian... Read More
Sennheiser Launches Amazon-Exclusive HD 450SE Wireless Headphones
Sennheiser has released a pair of its HD 450BT wireless headphones that adds the Alexa voice assistant – previously the headphones only... Read More
Mozilla Makes Firefox Prettier And Easier To Use
Mozilla has made the first significant update to Firefox in many years, with version 89 coming with a complete design overhaul that... Read More
LG Shifts Gears, Refits Phone Factories For Appliances
As LG pulls out of the smartphone market, the Korean giant is shifting its mobile facilities to produce home appliances, PCs, and... Read More
Fitbit Releases New Minions-Themed Kids Fitness Band
Fitbit has launched a new Minions-themed special edition of its Ace 3 fitness tracker for kids. The Fitbit Ace 3 Special Edition:... Read More
iPhone 13 Screens In Production
Production has kicked off for the OLED screens on Apple’s next iPhone, according to a Korean news site. As reported on TheElec,... Read More
Australia and New Zealand Ranked #1 In Cloud Adoption
Australia and New Zealand are world leaders when it comes to cloud adoption, according to new research. The Infosys Cloud Radar 2021... Read More
Has Gerry Harvey Bought Off News Corp?
The Harvey Norman brand took a massive dive this week with the big retailer now desperately trying to recover from a social... Read More
Twitter Introduces Fleet Ads, Paid Weather Service, In Effort To Monetise
Twitter is continuing to test different ways to monetise its platform, now piloting a new advertising system in its Instagram Stories-style ‘Fleet’... Read More
Harman Sweeps Red Dot Design Awards
Harman International has won an incredible 44 Red Dot Product Design Awards. Among the company’s achievements, it took home the highly-coveted ‘Red... Read More
Amazon Tells Complainants To Sue, After 75,000 Alexa Privacy Complaints
Amazon has updated its terms of service so that those pursuing legal action no longer have to file individual arbitration claims, and... Read More
Huawei Takes On Android With Harmony OS
Huawei launches its inhouse operating system for mobile phones today, in a move to gain independence from American suppliers and re-establish a... Read More
Top End Hitachi Refrigerators Take Off At Harvey Norman, Especially White Glass Models
Hitachi whose range of premium Japanese designed, and manufactured refrigerators are proving popular in Australia are now being ranged nationally in Australia... Read More
Governments Invests In Samsung Air Purifiers For COVID-19 Quarantine Hotels
Government managers of COVID-19 quarantine hotels in Australia have turned to Samsung air purifiers to reduce the risk associated with the outbreak.... Read More
Nvidia Confirms RTX 3080 Ti, Its New Flagship GPU
Nvidia has officially unveiled its much-speculated high-end 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti graphics cards. The 3080 Ti replaces the stock 3080 as... Read More
NSW Police Signs Up To Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Service
NSW Police is ahead of the game, being one of the country’s first ‘enterprise’ customers of the Starlink satellite internet service. “SpaceX... Read More
Noirot’s Affordable Home Heating Range Is Your Best Friend This Winter
Today is officially the first day of winter, and considering we are set to experience an icy three month stretch, you are... Read More
Survey Shows Aussie Shoppers Still Fearful Of Amazon
A survey of nearly 3,000 Australian shoppers shows that only a small percentage go to Amazon for their online retail needs. The... Read More
Brilliant Lighting Expands Into Home Security
Smart home specialist Brilliant Lighting has released a wifi-enabled security kit allowing users to remotely monitor their homes. Billed as a starter... Read More
AMD Finally Shows Off New Laptop GPUs
AMD has hit back at Intel and Nvidia in gaming notebooks with its new AMD Advantage design platform, including its answer to... Read More
Intel Unveils New Chips, 5G Modem For Thin-And-Light Notebooks
Intel has launched two new 11th-generation processors, as well as its first M.2-based 5G modem for PCs, at the Computex 2021 conference.... Read More
NBN Co Bungle Leaves 20,000 Customers Unable To Connect Or Book Appointments
NBN Co blames technology problems, but unhappy customers are blaming the service providers such as Optus and Telstra, who say it’s simply... Read More
Euro Privacy Group Aims To Crumble “Cookie Terror”
A European privacy group is issuing more than 500 GDPR complaints in a crusade against what it dubs “cookie banner terror”. Noyb,... Read More
TCL Rolls Out 2021 TV Range
TV giant TCL is launching a new range of 4K and 8K QLED and Mini-LED TVs into Australia. Two 8K Mini-LED TVs... Read More
Audio Equipment Vendor Jabra Signs Distro Deal With Dicker Data
NSW distributer Dicker Data has signed a distro deal with Danish audio equipment vendor Jabra, taking over its entire portfolio. The agreement... Read More
Nine Entertainment Signs Deal With Facebook and Google
Nine Entertainment is the latest news organisation to have signed agreements with Facebook and Google, under the Government’s news media bargaining code.... Read More
BREAKING: Harvey Norman Flees Twitter After Torrent Of Complaints
He loves dishing it out, but it appears that Gerry Harvey and his management team at Harvey Norman are struggling to cop... Read More
Apple To Refresh AirPods This Year, With Second-Gen AirPods Pro For 2022
Those in the know are spilling stories that Apple will be refreshing its entry-level AirPods later this year, with the second generation... Read More
Apple’s M1 Chip Has A Baked-In Flaw
Apple’s M1 chip has been the talk of the town, but a developer has discovered a flaw he says is “baked into... Read More
Google Photos Start Charging From Today
Since 2015, Google Photos has provided users with unlimited free photo storage, but as of today, this policy is coming to an... Read More
LG Tipped To Snare #1 Appliance Brand Slot From Whirlpool
LG Electronics is set to be crowned the worlds #1 appliance brand when it comes to sales. In Australia, the South Korean... Read More
