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Qantas, Virgin say no Samsung Galaxy Note7 in-flight use
Qantas and Virgin Australia have asked passengers on flights who own a Samsung Galaxy Note7 to avoid in-flight use or charging of the devices. The Qantas move also applies to its budget airline,...
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Xero launching new chatbot for Facebook Messenger
Accounting software provider Xero has unveiled a chatbot, codenamed “Hey Hero”, to be available later this year, which it says will have the capability to connect more than 50 million small businesses...
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Bigpipe launches parental control app
New Zealand ISP Bigpipe has released a trial version of a new parental control app which it says gives parents an even deeper level of control over their home Internet connection than has previously...
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IoT users to outnumber laptop, tablet, smartphone users: Gartner
In 2020 the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in use worldwide will rise to 21 billion, outnumbering users with laptops, tablets or smartphones by a factor of more than three, according to...
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BlackBerry completes Hub suite, adds Lollipop support
BlackBerry's Hub+ productivity suite has been completed with the release of the remaining five apps. Hub+ can now be used on Android Lollipop phones as well as those running Marshmallow. Last month,...
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Optus ogles iPhone 7, 7 Plus customers with trade-in offer
New and existing Optus customers can get up to $400 credit on any new smartphone Optus offers while promoting its detailed new iPhone pricing plans. As you might have not only expected but waiting to...
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Telstra tempts iPhone 7, 7 Plus pre-orders with trade-ins, too
Telstra hopes you’ll take the best-ever iPhone and will then pair it with Australia’s best-ever network, with several deals to boost data, get content, do a trade-in and more. Let’s jump right in - if...
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BMC Engage – digital natives will rule
Perhaps the reason that customer experience (CX) is so important is that we are all becoming digital natives – with some starting very early. Sandra Ng is impressive, and she is a digital native. She...
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USB stick will kill PCs – on purpose
If ever you have wanted to kill a computer – any USB device really – for US$49.95 you can buy USB Kill 2.0. The device is marketed as a tester and works by drawing 5V DC from the USB port into a...
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New NBN panel to report on rollout
The Australian Labor Party has agreed to support a Coalition move to set up a 17-member panel that will report on the rollout of the national broadband network until it is completed. The panel, the...
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With Maps or not, Google tracks users' locations
Google is able to keep tracking the location of an Android user no matter if the individual has deleted Google Maps from the device he or she is using or not. Security researcher Mustafa Al-Bassam...
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Fixes pending for 45-day-old remote MySQL flaws
A security researcher says he has discovered multiple, severe, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the widely used open source database MySQL, and has released details and limited proof-of-concept...
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NAB to provide ‘instant’ card use with NAB Pay
Customers of the National Australia Bank will have instant use of new, approved personal Visa credit cards, even before they receive their “physical” card, with the bank’s new mobile banking app to be...
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FBI has quiet plan for mass hacking
The FBI will be able to hack into computers anywhere in the world if changes to the US Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure are allowed to become law, as they will on December 1. Democrat Senator Ron...
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Sky and Space Global seals nano satellite launch deal with Virgin Galactic
Australian-listed satellite communications company, Sky and Space Global, has done a deal with Virgin Galactic to launch multiple nano-satellites into space from 2018 onwards. The two companies have...
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Vodafone picks up 130,000 new customers with Lebara buy
Vodafone is acquiring the Australian mobile business of Lebara including 130,000 of the Mobile Virtual Network Operator’s customers. Lebara mobile, a Vodafone MVNO since 2009, has been bought for an...
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Game Review: F1 2016
It’s time to take to the track again, those fragile open wheel rockets are ready to, well, purr rather than roar around 21 international circuits. This includes the new castle strewn Baku City Circuit...
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Vibrator maker sued over storing user information
A Canadian company that makes and sells vibrators has been caught out storing details of vibrator settings used by purchasers and their personal email addresses on its servers. A lawsuit filed in the...
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D-Link Gigabit PowerLine Passthrough for 4K media streaming
D-Link ANZ has launched the DHP-P601AV PowerLine AV2 1000 HD Gigabit Passthrough Kit which uses existing electrical wiring to extend a home Internet connection, especially where Wi-Fi may be patchy. It...
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Internet's defences being probed: security expert
A big player, most possibly a nation state, has been testing the security of companies that run vital parts of the Internet's infrastructure, according to well-known security expert Bruce Schneier. In...
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