Overall TIO Complaints Down, However Landline And Internet Complaints Rise
The TIO recorded 33,141 new complaints from January to March 2015, a 12.1 per cent rise on the previous quarter, however a... Read More
Quickflix Looks To Bolster Content Offering Via Foxtel Partnership
Announcing the agreement today, which will see Quickflix become an affiliate reseller for Presto, Quickflix stated Presto streaming will complement its transactional... Read More
The Results Are In: Optus Lands A Blow As Data Demands Grow
Following the entry of Netflix into the local market, along with local subscription video-on-demand services Stan and Presto TV, telcos have been... Read More
Samsung Goes Round The Bend Competing With Apple Watch
New information released for developers reveals that round is in at Samsung, with a new developer kit providing specifications, for Gear bezel-based... Read More
Microsoft Changes Windows Name As They Chase Traction In Smartphone Market
The Company who is close to launching the last numbered version of their Windows OS has confirmed that several versions of the... Read More
OZ Visitors Set To Be Restricted At CES 2016
Gary Shapiro, president/CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association announced overnight that the 2015 International CES reached a record 176,676 industry professionals, with... Read More
Electronic Bazaar Operator Ordered To Pay $100,000 For Misleading Consumers
Electronic Bazaar sold electronic goods such as camcorders, digital cameras, mobile phones, laptops and projectors via its website, with the court finding... Read More
Telstra Hits Back Following Netflix Speed Rankings
Netflix had Telstra bringing up the rear of its list ranking the speed of Australian ISPs over the course of the month,... Read More
CE + Appliance Industry Tipped To Get Big Lift From Budget As CE Retailer Shares Climb
This morning shares in JB Hi Fi and Harvey Norman rose Harvey Norman by nearly 5 per cent and JB Hi-Fi by... Read More
Stan Launches On Apple TV
Up against the extensive and ever-expanding reach of streaming giant Netflix, along with a number of domestic competitors, Stan is branching out... Read More
New BenQ Smart Signage Designed For Customer Engagement
Sporting a slim bezel design, the ST550K features 4K2K UHD (3840 x 2160) resolution, and is equipped with X-Sign content creation and... Read More
D-Link Australia Appoints Matt Farmer Sales Director, National Retail
Farmer’s role will encompass a particular emphasis on connectivity solutions for the modern smart home, including IP security and home automation. “Matt... Read More
Apple Claims 72pc Of Business Device Activations In Q1
This is down slightly from 73 percent in Q4, but up from the 69 percent iOS claimed back in November, according to... Read More
Hockey Unveils IT Tax Crackdowns: Critics Have Doubts
But critics have been quick to point put some problems the Government may face in collecting. Hockey said the Government had identified... Read More
New Panasonic Blu Ray Players Don’t Have New Blu Ray Spec
The models launched in Australia yesterday include the $995 DMR-BWT955’s triple HD Tuner model that comes with 2TB of storage but not... Read More
Whiff Of A Kettle Scandal Emerges For Big Appliance Brands
Among the brands being investigated are Russell Hobbs Philips, Breville, Delonghi and Morphy Richards all brands whose kettles are sold at mass... Read More
Netflix Shines Light On Aussie ISP Speeds With Monthly Ranking
Australia and New Zealand this month joined the Netflix ISP Speed Index, ranking 18th and 14th, respectively, on Netflix’s list of 29... Read More
FireFox OS Now Built Into Panasonic TV’s
Panasonic has revealed their new TV range for Australia and one of the smart new features on their premium range is a... Read More
COMMENT: Great Japanese Brands Being Destroyed By Lousy Marketing.
You only have to look at the history of Japanese consumer electronics brands to see the brand carnage created by a penny... Read More
Kate Page & Gerry Harvey Get Their Way With GST Demands
Harvey Norman’s Gerry Harvey has been campaigning for the move for years, so I’m sure he’ll be delighted. The move will see... Read More
Panasonic OZ Defends Poor Japanese Marketing At TV Launch
But don’t expect to see any of that spend on TV. print, billboard or radio advertising. Instead Panasonic intends to spend on... Read More
Turnbull: Untimed Local Calls To Remain
Turnbull has stated the government has no plans to remove the 22 cent standard local call, following a report in The Daily... Read More
Nine Unveils New Audience Measurement Tool
Nine states its Platform Agnostic Ratings for Content (PARC) tool will “provide clients and agencies with a metric for measuring media consumption... Read More
Ninja Blocks Goes Bust
Ninja Blocks has been building and selling home automation systems that allow users to control electrical devices via a smartphone. The company... Read More
NBN Deal Stitched At Last
The revised migration plan sets out the terms for shifting customers off Telstra’s existing infrastructure and onto the National Broadband Network. The... Read More
Anti-Piracy Law To Net 10 Injunctions Every Year
The estimate was included in answers to a question on notice from the May 1 hearing of a parliamentary inquiry into the... Read More
“Grubby” Foxtel Under Siege As Telstra Delivers Slowest Netflix Streaming
Meanwhile Netflix has captured 39% of the video streaming market according to research from Pocketbook. There are also problems emerging for Telstra... Read More
“Netflix Tax” On Its Way For Digital Products
Hockey today stated the move is designed to ensure there “is a level playing field for the suppliers of digital products and... Read More
Sharp Shares Dive As Company Hunts For Money
The Nikkei Asian Review had reported Sharp plans to reduce its capital by 99 per cent to 100 million yen (around $1.05... Read More
Retailers To Reject Pebble Smart Watch That Dick Smith Flogs For $103 Over US Direct Sell Price
Currently the product is being sold exclusively via Dick Smith despite the fact that Pebble US is selling direct to Australians at... Read More
Breaking Bad-Themed Ransomware Found On Aussie Computers
Symantec has detailed the new threat in a blog post, which it states encrypts images, videos, documents and more on compromised computers,... Read More
Wesfarmers Appoints Michael Chaney As New Chairman
Chaney, who served as Wesfarmers managing director from 1992 through to 2005, will join the company’s board as chairman-elect from June 1.... Read More
Welcome Tesla, Says Oz Group
CEO Stuart Smith said attention generated by Tesla’s announcement actually assists Redflow. “This announcement has raised the public profile of affordable energy... Read More
NAB Pilots New Personal Platform
The platform will let customers upload and submit documents online and to track their application progress online and to receive SMS updates.... Read More
Uber Bids $3bn For Nokia Maps
The Uber offer is competing with one in the works from a group of German carmakers, including BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz, which... Read More
Huawei May Build Google Phone
An analyst in China, Pan Jiutang, told Web news site GizmoChina that Google has ditched its two-time Nexus partner LG in favour... Read More
Tesla’s Home And Biz Batteries Take $800 Million In First Week
If those sales are realised, it would be almost as much as the company took in from car sales in the entire... Read More
Samsung Note 5 + Round Faced Watch Set For IFA Launch
The Korean Company who is fighting a head on battle with Apple despite recently signing a multibillion dollar manufacturing deal to produce... Read More
Netflix Smashes Presto + Stan As Dodgy “Netflix” Set Top Boxes Emerge
As Australians take to streaming entertainment content, the two biggest players are the $8 a month Netflix and the free ABC iView... Read More
Telstra Roll out Family Multi Plan With Dollops Of Content
The new Go Mobile plans were introduced by John Chambers, Executive Director Telstra Mobile who said Go Mobile plans offer Australians more... Read More
There Will Be No More Windows Launches, Microsoft Confirms
Instead the Company who is one of the largest software Companies in the world has decided to simply offer upgrades to their... Read More
Nikon Sales + Marketing Manager Quits
Seggar, who was previously the consumer electronics marketing manager at Samsung and prior to that Group Marketing Manager at Microsoft has not... Read More
$1,950 Themomix Smashed In Shoot Out With New $365 Food Mixer
The new Monsieur Cuisine mixer which looks identical to and performs better than the Thermomix according to recent reviews is tipped to... Read More
Spotify Reportedly Preparing To Branch Out Into Online Video
The Wall Street Journal has reported people familiar with the matter as stating Spotify is making preparations to enter the video business,... Read More
Fitbit Files For IPO As Wearables Market Heats Up
The move comes amid growing competition in the wearables market, with major tech players, such as Apple, which recently released its first... Read More
JB Hi Fi Delivers The Goods As Dick Smith Struggles
Yesterday JB Hi Fi CEO Richard Murray told the Macquarie Australia conference that the mass consumer electronics and appliance retailer had grown... Read More
Nintendo Bounces Back And Turns FY Profit
Nintendo posted an operating income of 24.77 billion yen (around $261 million), up from a loss of 46.43 billion yen year-on-year, and... Read More
HTC Partners With Supermodel Jourdan Dunn To Kick Off INK Campaign
The INK campaign will see individually created celebrity body art designs engraved onto a limited run of HTC’s flagship M9 handsets, with... Read More
Opera House Debut For Samsung External SSD Drive That Is Small But Brutally Fast
The new SSD storage which sells for $269 for a $250GB model uses Samsung’s new 3D V-NAND technology which is set to... Read More
“Netflix Tax” Reportedly On Government’s Radar
Fairfax Media has reported the government is looking to impose the tax on services such as Netflix under new rules set to... Read More