Jump start your car – Laser Power Bank 6000 (review)
Laser’s Power Bank 6000 – the ultimate emergency battery – comes with a set of 12V jumper leads that will provide 400 Amps – just enough to jump start your car. And it will power your USB devices as...
View ArticleScams cost Ausses $300 million in 2016
Australians lost nearly $300 million to scammers in 2016, with a 47% increase in scam reports to the competition watchdog, the ACCC, during the year over 2015. The Australian Competition and Consumer...
View ArticleWorkers know little about employers' privacy policies: survey
A survey of top Australian brands, both those listed among the ASX Top 100 and those outside it, has found that 43% of the staff in these organisations are unaware whether their employers have data...
View ArticleCeBIT to be held from 23-25 May at Sydney ICC
CeBIT will showcase the latest technology and gadgets at CeBIT Australia to be held from 23 to 25 May at the new International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour. CeBIT is aimed at B-2-B – enterprise,...
View ArticleAustralians more aware of online security: claim
Australians are concerned about online security but are not using available options to protect themselves, Information and Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim claims. But when asked what these...
View ArticleSensis gives ACCC contract undertaking, agrees to refund customers
Sensis, the marketing services company that publishes the online Yellow Pages and White pages directories, has been rapped over the knuckles by the competition watchdog, the ACCC, and undertaken to...
View ArticleNBN Co has something in common with Pontius Pilate
If the NBN Co is to be believed, then the organisation that has been vested with building and commissioning the national broadband network is not in any way responsible for the terrible speeds that...
View ArticleDior Homme x Sennheiser
Christian Dior is an iconic name in fashion and Sennheiser equally so in sound. Teamed up they present the Dior Homme x Sennheiser collection of sound and fashion accessories. Dior Homme is the...
View ArticleCanon “Donate or Keep” to help Aussie charity givers
The average Aussie donates about $200 per year – some a whole lot more and some less. Canon wants to make it easy to donate and help the Cancer Council Australia, Australian Red Cross and Starlight...
View ArticleWorld Password day passed
World Password Day (WPD) passed without a whimper or a minute’s silence contemplating the significance of 4 May – yes, it is also World Star Wars Day AND that sucked the oxygen out of WPD. I felt bad...
View ArticlePrivacy Awareness Week 15-19 May 2017
Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) is 15-19 May and run under the auspices of the Office of the Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner. It is a week to explore privacy under the theme “Trust and...
View ArticleNetflix app will not work with rooted Android devices
The Netflix video-on-demand app will no longer work on the millions of Android devices that have been rooted – a method of allowing kernel access for side-loaded and other programs that could enable...
View ArticleFacebook faces threat of closure in Thailand
Facebook faces the threat of being shut down in Thailand after it failed to remove 131 posts out of a list of 309, with the ultimatum being issued to the social media giant last Thursday. Thailand's...
View ArticleOptus gets $555k of ‘left over’ black spot funds to boost SA mobile coverage
The South Australian Government has allocated $555,015 to Optus to build and operate four new mobile phone base stations in the State after $2 million it committed towards the federal government’s...
View ArticleZeniMax sues Samsung over Gear VR headset
Winning a lawsuit against Facebook-owned Oculus appears to have emboldened game maker ZeniMax to take on another big company. It filed a suit over Samsung's Gear VR headset, claiming that the latter...
View ArticleData#3 delivers digital infrastructure for Sunshine Coast University Hospital
Brisbane-based ICT services provider Data#3 has completed a multi-million-dollar, digital infrastructure project for the new Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH). Completion of the project,...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s reputation shattered into a million pieces
It’s not just the CIA and NSA’s reputation shattered into a million pieces by the ransomware vulnerabilities scandal, but Microsoft’s, too. Microsoft. It’s the formerly people-ready company that is now...
View ArticleUpdates for iOS 10.3.2, macOS 10.12.5, tvOS, watchOS and more now available
The latest round of updates for Apple’s devices, as well as iTunes for Windows, iCloud for Windows and Apple Music 2.0 for Android have been released. May 15 was mayday for Apple’s iDevices, Macs,...
View ArticleCode Camp to graduate with HP’s help
Code Camp - an idea to teach Australian kids from five years or older how to “code” hopes to reach 200,000 Australian kids by 2020 with HP’s help. Three years ago, Code Camp started with just eight...
View ArticleMoto Z’s newest Mod – vehicle dock
Moto Z’s innovative docking system has received a new member – Incipio’s Vehicle Dock securing to the air vent and connecting to the car audio system via Bluetooth or AUX cable. The new dock features...
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