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CA, AMTA support for Productivity Commission proposals on data use, availability
The Communications Alliance and the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) have given their broad support to the Productivity Commission’s proposals and aims to increase the...
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Sahota gets behind Lingmo’s new translation app
IBM Watson master inventor and worldwide business development leader, Neil Sahota, has officially launched a new Australian-developed language translation technology which it is claimed is set to make...
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Microsoft says screw PC
Microsoft took the unusual step of taking the PC out of PC in a very funny but un-PC Saturday Night Live skit. Two Microsoft employees (Kate McKinnon and Fred Armisen) fielded questions from the...
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ESET sets the record for 2017 security predictions
In what is possibly 2016's longest security trends document — 61 pages — ESET Trend 2017 Security Held Ransom is actually a good read. The report focuses on nine overall trends and reveals some...
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New ‘check your address’ service launched for NBN
NBN Co has launched an improved service allowing prospective subscribers to the National Broadband Network to check when their individual premises — business or residential — will be ready-for-service...
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Bill shock for mobile phone users on the decline: ACMA
There’s some Christmas cheer for mobile phone users, with a new report showing the incidences of consumers receiving unexpectedly high bills has fallen from 33% to 19% since 2013 for post-paid mobile...
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Unchartered waters with Government ‘radical’ expansion of data retention...
Internet Australia, the peak body representing Internet users, has criticised a move by the Federal Government to call for submissions over the Christmas period for what it describes as a “radical...
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Zip off to a Luxury Escape with zipMoney
If you thought a credit card was the only way to ‘book now’ and ‘pay it later,’ zipMoney and Luxury Escapes have a different way to do it. zipMoney. It’s a digital payments platform company we’ve...
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VIDEO Interview: Foxtel Kids app launches, includes video downloads
Foxtel has added value to its service with its new ‘Kids’ app, delivering a ‘safe place to stream and download favourite shows on demand and ad-free.’ Foxtel has announced the launch of a new app...
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Victoria on the road with first semi-autonomous vehicle trials
The Victorian Government with the Australian Road Research Board and La Trobe University have completed the first successful trials of a semi-automated vehicle on Melbourne’s EastLink motorway....
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Trident partners with Triasmitra on Singaore-Indonesia subsea cable deal
The Trident Subsea Cable company and Indonesia’s cable deployment and cable owner-operator, Ketrosden Triasmitra, have entered into a strategic venture to own and operate a telecommunications cable...
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Users easily get past Telstra torrent site blocks: report
Telstra has implemented blocking of websites that link to material that allegedly infringe copyright but users are easily able to get past it, according to a published report. The Torrent Freak website...
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Apple AirPods – disposable and unfixable
Apple’s new AirPods, its Bluetooth answer to no headphone jack, have scored zero out of 10 on the repairability scale – no repair or battery replacement is possible. iFixit conducted a “teardown” and...
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EU court strikes blow against UK surveillance law
In a blow to the UK's recently passed surveillance bill, the European Union's highest court has ruled that "general and indiscriminate retention" of email and electronic communications by a government...
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Microsoft source code open to DoD changes
Microsoft will have to make changes in its source code if called upon to do so by the US Department of Defence to serve its objectives, according to a new US$927 million contract signed by the two...
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Google avoided US$3.6b in taxes in 2015: report
Google avoided paying US$3.6 billion in taxes globally in 2015 by shifting US$15.5 billion (€14.9 billion) to a company in Bermuda that is just a shell, according to regulatory filings made in the...
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NAB's Christmas gift: no online or phone banking
Three days before Christmas, National Australia Bank's banking services have gone down, with customers unable to use both phone and Internet banking services. NAB acknowledged the problem on its...
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Welcome to the silly season of security beat-ups
The silly season is the time when security companies figure they can get under the skin of normally sensible people, by spouting chicken little stuff and using gullible writers to spread their message...
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Productivity Commission report on IP, copyright is ‘anti-innovation’, says...
The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA) has warned that recommendations by the Productivity Commission on Intellectual Property arrangements would significantly weaken the...
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NZ Commerce Commisson defers decision on deregulating Spark voice services
New Zealand’s competition enforcement and regulatory agency, The Commerce Commission, has recommending deferring for two years a decision on whether wholesale voice services provided on copper lines by...
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