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Immunity's Aitel alleges Hutchins had role in WannaCry
Even as many security researchers rallied around Briton Marcus Hutchins, who was arrested in the US last week on allegations of creating the banking trojan, Kronos, the head of security firm Immunity,...
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Report: 4G LTE Apple Watch Series 3 due ‘later this year’
The long-awaited Apple Watch that can operate independently of an iPhone, while presumably still pairing beautifully with one, is due this year, according to a new report. Ok, so Huawei’s Watch 2 with...
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Google may be home, but large Aussie retailers seemingly do not want to...
Google Home is now in Australia, replete with television advertising letting us know you can have it control your lighting. Yet, my experience shows large Australian retailers lag behind online outlets...
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RFID market to reach US $11.2b in 2017, plenty of room to grow
The RFID market has plenty of room to grow over the next decade, with less than 20% penetration of the total addressable market for apparel alone in 2017, let alone everything else RFID is being used...
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AR to be worth US $27b by 2027, AR Wars and Google Glass, Ep II
With Google bringing Google Glass back to market for enterprise customers, risking the “Glassh*le” revival, Glass 2.0’s upgrades bring Google back as an AR player, but it’s not the only one. The...
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‘Accidental’ HomePod firmware leak reveals swag of Apple secrets
With HomePods in internal testing by Apple employees, a reportedly accidental leak of firmware destined for those test units only has revealed Apple secrets making many happy. It’s all over the news:...
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Apple Watch, iPad and Mac sales up, confounding doomsayers
COMMENT All the doomsayers who predicted iPad sales were in a death spiral and that even if Apple Watch sold, it wouldn’t matter, look silly now. Apple doom and gloom. It’s an industry of its own,...
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Xiaomi’s No.1 wearables vendor Q2 2017 ‘victory’ – does it truly matter?
If a $27 fitness band outsells a smartwatch costing several hundred dollars and with a vastly higher profit margin, has the fitness band truly won No.1? Strategy Analytics has put out a report stating...
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Govt plan to share data on threats to help SMBs
The federal government's plan to share data on cyber security collected by intelligence agencies will benefit small and medium-sized businesses the most, a Telstra official claims. According to the...
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Kickstarter: portable breath checker, digital lung function wearable device
Forget about breathalysing for blood alcohol levels, how about breathalysing yourself to accurately zero in on your health status? ezOxygen aims to do that. ezOxygen. It’s a digital lung function...
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HT&E, Gfinity team up on esports initiative
Media and entertainment company HT&E has launched a new division and brand — HT&E Events — and will create an Australian esports business in partnership with Gfinity eSports Australia and IKON...
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Aussie wins silver medal at Adobe Certified World Championship in California
From over 110,000 entries worldwide, and 47 finalists, West Australian Elliot Tawns has won the silver medal for graphic design at the Adobe Certified Associate World Championship in Anaheim,...
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Slaven joins AirTrunk as chief development officer
Hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk has appointed Paul Slaven as its chief development officer. "Paul is highly motivated and joins us with extensive industry knowledge and experience which...
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How Android’s and Pixel XL’s video recording let me down at a military funeral
As a friend’s father's funeral drew closer, I offered to record the funeral ceremony for the family as my friend had done for my father's funeral. But I had forgotten how Android’s FAT32 4GB file size...
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An Apple Store in play restores shopping mall heyday
Analysts and commercial real estate executives know that an Apple Store in a retail mall serves as would an apple a day in keeping the doctor away, with the doctor being the Dr Death of retail in the...
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Former Google VP of Engineering switches to iPhone
Vic Gundotra, once Google’s vice-president of Engineering, now uses an iPhone 7 Plus to take his photos, stating that if you truly care about great photography, you own an iPhone. For those interested...
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VIDEO Interview: Patrick Johnston, the savvy Savvius VP in the Spotlight
Network performance management company Savvius has launched its new distribution partner in Australia, and its PartnerOne programme alongside its entire suite including the new Savvius Spotlight....
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Money for nothing: for Rupe and Telstra it's free
When Dire Straits legend Mark Knopfler penned his record-breaking song Money for Nothing, he never visualised that such a situation would actually happen in real life. But it has, in Australia in 2017....
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NBN woes: govt must carry the can, says Paul Budde
A veteran independent telecommunications commentator claims that government policy, not the NBN Co or retail service providers, is to blame for the fiasco that the national broadband network rollout...
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Enter the Horizon Zero Dawn Frozen Wilds in November
Horizon: Zero Dawn was a Legend of Zelda and more for the Playstation platform. Now some more content is on its way to expand Aloy’s fantastical world of robot dinosaurs and techno-magic. Sony has...
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