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Amazon Kindle – the best way to read a book
Amazon’s new Kindle has a hi-contrast, e-paper, touch screen that is almost as simple to use as a book. To position this, it is an entry level $109 device – a 6”, 167ppi, 800 x 600, E Ink Pearl, 16...
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Ziggy gets another three years as NBN Co chairman
Dr Ziggy Switkowski has been reappointed as chairman of NBN Co and a non-executive director of the board for three more years. He has previously served as chief executive of both Telstra and Optus. In...
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Finite’s Tracy Thomson selected as finalist in SARA recruitment awards
Finite IT Recruitment Solutions managing director Tracy Thomson has been named Finalist for Recruitment Leader of the Year in the 2016 Seek Annual Recruitment Awards (SARA). Thomson has previously won...
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GCHQ gave private Dutch data to Australian firm: report
The private conversations of thousands of Dutch citizens have ended up in the hands of the Australian technology company Appen which develops software for converting speech into text. A report in the...
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DreamWave Audio – tough portable speakers (review)
If you believe a portable speaker should be as rugged, and perhaps as good looking, as Bear Grylls then you may want to take a look at a new range from U.S. based DreamWave Audio. If you have not heard...
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Emerson backup system helps protect data in S.A. power blackout
When the lights went out in South Australia and the entire state was hit by power outages, for energy infrastructure provider Emerson Network Power, the protection of crucial information stored in data...
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iPhone 7 comes last in battery life test by UK group
The British consumer group Which? has found that the iPhone 7 battery is the worst among recent big-brand smartphones, after the group compared it with the Samsung Galaxy S7, the HTC 10 and the LG G5....
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Trojanised apps in legitimate app stores – new DressCode threat
The common belief is that it was safe to download from official apps stores like Google Play or Apple App Store. Sadly, that is not the case with both having been compromised of late. TrendMicro has...
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Netgear adds 'affordable' 16-port switch to 10GbE range
Netgear's new ProSafe XS716E is a 16-port 10GBase-T switch that can be found at less than $2000. 10GbE is becoming increasingly popular, due in part to the way the growing use of 802.11ac Wi-Fi and GbE...
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Systemd bug allows ordinary user to crash Linux systems
The systemd project is yet to release a fix for a bug that was disclosed on 28 September but at least one GNU/Linux distribution has patched the same. The bug, allowing a user to crash a system by...
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Death by smartphone – iPhone 6s Plus next
"Alas poor Yorick - he had an iPhone/Note7 [insert model here]." The mantra may well become the catchcry of 2016 as thousands of reports have emerged about all manner of smartphones exploding or...
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DDoS source code released into the wild, Internet could grind to a halt
ANALYSIS Brian Krebs should know a thing or two about distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. His security website was shut down by one of the largest in history. iTWire reported on this and...
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Apple fined US$302.4m for FaceTime patent copy
Apple has lost its retrial appeal on one of the patent infringement suits for its FaceTime app. There is a second trial for another infringement for iMessage still underway. A Texan court found that...
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ISACA Sydney celebrates 40 years with an Innovation Summit
If you know what ISACA means (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) and if you support its aims as 140,000 in 200 countries do, pencil in 26 October for its 40-year celebrations and an...
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Scammers target Telstra customers
Scammers are targeting Telstra customers and attempting to obtain their usernames and passwords by using an email that claims the company was unable to process the customer's last bill. The email is...
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Teradyne’s Universal Robots gets new president
Danish robotics company Universal Robots, a Teradyne company, has appointed former executive of German engineering and services group Bilfinger, Jürgen von Hollen, as global president. von Hollen joins...
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Virgin Mobile launches ‘eMEjis' with Dave Hughes
No, it has nothing to do with Domino’s chief executive Don Meij, but instead a stack of Australian-inspired emojis with the hope they will be added to the next official emoji keyboard update due in...
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Foxtel gets Presto in Seven West Media deal
Foxtel is buying out Seven West Media’s interests in Presto TV, with Presto to be integrated into Foxtel Play streaming service. The change will see Presto cease operating on 3 January 2017 and, from...
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The Echofied Q&A guide to making better business, lifestyle and finance...
A new Q&A expertise platform has launched to "empower consumers to make better decisions" regarding "home loans, super, legal, real estate, business, cars, insuranc"’ and more. The people behind...
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Telstra also trialling V2I and V2X tech with Cohda Wireless, eyes 5G, too
Telstra and Cohda Wireless have "successfully trialled Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technology over Telstra’s 4G network in South Australia" on the way to V2X tech. Telstra and Cohda’s V2I trials...
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