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ACCC decides against declaration of mobile roaming
The competition watchdog has cast aside industry opposition and concerns and made a draft decision not to declare wholesale mobile roaming services, saying there is insufficient evidence that such a...
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IDC sees green shoots in the PC market
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs totalled 60.3 million units in Q1, 2017 – a 0.6% y-o-y growth and the first positive “green-shoots” indicator since Q1, 2012. There are many reasons for the...
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Roaming: Old friend ACCC comes to Telstra's aid again
Every time it looks like consumers will be able to get away from the handcuffs that Telstra has around telecommunications in the country, along comes the ACCC and gives the dominant telco breathing...
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ACCC sparks angry industry reaction to mobile roaming decision
Telcos have been angered by the draft decision of the competition watchdog, the ACCC, not to declare wholesale mobile roaming services and open up telecommunications to greater market competition. The...
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Demand for smartphones in Q1 as strong as ever: IDC
Global shipments of smartphones totalled 347.4m in Q1, 2017, an indefatigable increase of 4.3% year-on-year says IDC. Q1 is an atypical quarter usually suffering from channel stuffing (overstocking...
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Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack debuts
Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is a turnkey hybrid cloud platform based on Microsoft Azure Stack. Dell EMC - or perhaps more accurately its predecessor - shipped the first Microsoft-based...
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WhatsApp outage causes little outcry
WhatsApp, which is said to have nearly a billion users, went down in some regions of the world on Wednesday but there has been relatively little noise about it. This, Andrew Martin, vice-president of...
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Research firm says Apple now No.1 Q1 2017 wearables vendor
All the anti-Apple fake news prognostications that Apple Watch would fail look silly with the news that Apple is now the world’s largest wearables vendor. Remember those fake news stories that Apple...
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WikiLeaks dumps CIA tool for man-in-the-middle attacks
WikiLeaks has dumped another tool from what it says is an archive of CIA material it has called Vault 7 that came into its possession and which it commenced releasing on 7 March. Named Archimedes, the...
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Payroll firm blames ATO for tech contractors' pay delay
A payroll company that serves IT contractors says the Australian Taxation Office froze its bank accounts rendering it unable to process contractors' pay since 27 April. Contractors reported earlier...
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Acer takes 7 for spin (review)
Acer’s Spin 7 is a 360° hinge, 14” touch screen, notebook, that is one of the thinnest, lightest, Intel 7th generation Core Y notebooks in the value segment. Acer makes good stuff, occasionally great...
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Samsung S8/S8+ UFS 2.0 and 2.1 ‘hardware lottery’
XDA Developers forum has discovered that some Galaxy S8/S8+ models have UFS 2.0, while others have UFS 2.1. An interesting article has popped up over at the popular XDA Developers Forum site which...
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S8 and S8+ AMOLED screen black line image bleed claims
Reddit users have reported a “faint ghosting to the edges of the screen” when horizontal black lines are displayed on the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, which I can’t replicate on an S7. Some Reddit...
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LG 4K OLED still the one (review)
LG’s 2017 range of 4K OLED provides the best picture, colour, clarity, HDR, and audio performance of any current TV technology. For that — Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound — you pay a premium. The...
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Intel Surface Phone to launch at Microsoft Build 2017 next week?
Rumoured for years, Microsoft might finally release a Surface Phone able to run x86 Windows desktop apps, with or without Continuum, on either Intel or ARM processors. Microsoft’s Surface Phone, a...
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Logitech G G413 keyboard: for gamers and the rest
From the time you take the G413 out of its packaging, it is evident that this is a solid, high-quality keyboard – for any of you who unleash fury upon their keyboard after losing a close game (because...
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Tech start-ups hope for tax, investment relief in budget
Tech start-ups are hoping for changes in Tuesday's federal budget that will reduce their tax burden and make access to investment easier so that their sector can grow and thrive. The Coalition...
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Labor adopts wait-and-see policy on roaming draft decision
The Australian Labor Party has adopted a wait-and-see policy on the decision by the competition regulator not to declare wholesale mobile roaming and open up telecommunications to greater market...
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Will Amazon’s entry into Australia lead to a price war?
New research by Telstra and Neto shows that 35% of Australians will shift their online purchases to Amazon once the e-commerce giant arrives in the country. But on the bright side, 65% of consumers...
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Qualcomm raises the bar for mid- to flagship-range processors
Some interesting things are happening in the mobile chip world with a potential to be even more disruptive than the Intel/AMD x86 battles of past and present. First, a little history – every mobile...
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