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Skip the Sevens – gloves are off
Moto has fired shots over the bows of the new iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 series – it says brand loyalty and habit is no excuse to accept a “new” phone that’s not very different from the old one....
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‘Stark choice’ for PC vendors – overhaul business or leave the PC market:...
Revenue declines and an erosion of profits in an “over-penetrated” PC market leave PC vendors with two choices – overhaul their businesses or leave the PC market by 2020, according to global analyst...
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Optus announces bonus data offer for iPhone 7 plans
It’s iPhone 7 launch day, and Optus has sweetened the deal for its new and existing customers to upgrade to Apple’s latest and greatest. Optus previously announced its iPhone 7 plans here, on 9...
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Telstra brings iPhone 7 to its most remote customer
There’s remote - and then there’s remote, which is 300 kms from Alice Springs to ‘Barrow Creek,’ where local publican Les Pilton was one of the first worldwide to get the new iPhone. Normally, when...
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US, Canada and Mexico officially recall Samsung Galaxy Note7
It’s official - the Samsung Galaxy Note7 has now been recalled in the US by its Consumer Product Safety Commission, with Canada and Mexico following suit. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission, the...
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Moto Z-Droid – smartphone innovation starts here
Moto fired some well-aimed shots over the bow of Apple’s new iPhone 7 pending its release of what it says is amongst the only true innovation shown by any smartphone maker this year. It says, (iTWire...
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iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch 2 preliminary teardowns
IFIXIT sent a team to Japan to bring readers early teardowns of the new Apple iPhone 7, 7 Plus and Watch 2. In particular, the water resistance is being put to the test via a YouTube live stream....
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iPhone 7, Plus and Apple Watch 2 teardowns
IFIXIT sent a team to Japan to bring readers early teardowns of the new Apple iPhone 7, 7 Plus and Watch 2. In particular, the water resistance is being put to the test via a YouTube live stream....
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Internet speed - you don't get what you pay for
The age old cry is that “The internet too slow.” In part that has been exposed by the raft of new AC routers that may be able to connect at up to a gigabit in your network but grind to a halt when it...
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Chrome and Firefox may soon block pirate sites
Piracy, long the bane of copyright agencies and content distributors - it may be soon that search engines, browsers, and DNS providers simply will not be able to find and access known pirate sites....
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Samsung “Please Explains” – Note7 FAQ
Samsung has issued a recall for the Galaxy Note7 – some 2.5 million units (over 50,000 in Australia) have been shipped and that is not to mention the unknown quality in transit for later release in...
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Microsoft includes Google Drive and Facebook photos in Outlook.com and Office...
Microsoft has extended its collaboration tools – create, edit and share - to Google Drive, Facebook and other cloud storage for Outlook.com webmail and Office 365 users. Microsoft announced that it has...
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Half of smartphone users don’t download any apps
While Apple and Google vie for the biggest app store (it is Google Play at the moment) the stark realisation is that half of U.S. smartphone users don’t ever download an app. ComScore’s recent 2016...
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One super, incredibly great iOS 10 feature in Safari
There’s plenty of articles about top 10 or top 25 iOS 10 features, but there’s one I’m really loving. If you remember the very first iPhone unveiling by Steve Jobs, then you remember that pinch to zoom...
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Silicon Valley layoffs beat any dot.com bust records
About 100,000 tech jobs have been shed in Silicon Valley over the past couple of months – and that is just the tip of the global iceberg. Informed estimates are now that over 370,000 jobs will be...
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Cloud market rising to new heights: Gartner
The global public cloud market is surging this year to US$208.6 billion, up 17.2% from US$178 billion last year, with public cloud in Australia for 2016 increasing 14% to US$4.18 billion this year from...
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Indian judge rules copyright is not a divine right
The high court in Delhi, India, has allowed an university to copy textbooks by major publishers because it says "copyright is not a divine right". The presiding judge ruled that students could get...
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Optus launches ‘Smart Shop’ to service SMB market
Optus has launched a marketplace of cloud software applications and a specialist 24-hour IT support line which the telco says will help its small business customers make the most out of their apps. As...
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Event to uncover new talent for the MedTech sector
The CSIRO Data61’s job matching service Ribit, the NSW government and the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA) are staging an event which sees more than 120 of Australia’s brightest...
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ACCC issues new ‘button battery’ code to reduce child deaths and injuries
A new document designed to ‘reduce the number of deaths and injuries from children swallowing button batteries in Australia’ comes from the ACCC which urges businesses to take urgent note. With the...
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