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Article | 9/05/2011 Optus planning FetchTV IPTV service for home and mobile

Optus has announced its intentions to launch an IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) service in partnership with FetchTV, with what the telco calls 'in...

Article | 9/05/2011 Motorola Xoom coming to Optus in June

Optus has confirmed it will launch Motorola's Xoom Android tablet in June, a month after the device goes on sale through Telstra.

Article | 6/05/2011 Motorola Xoom will ship with a disabled microSD card slot

Motorola has confirmed its much-anticipated Xoom Android tablet will launch in Australia with a disabled microSD card slot, and the company has not sp...

Article | 6/05/2011 Telstra exclusively launching Motorola Xoom and Motorola Atrix in Australia

Motorola and Telstra last night jointly unveiled the eagerly-anticipated Motorola Xoom Android tablet, and the Motorola Atrix Android phone, confirmin...

Article | 5/05/2011 CBS sued for distributing LimeWire software

An entrepreneur and over a dozen hip-hop artists are suing CBS over its part in contributing to piracy. The suit, filed by FilmOn founder Alki David ...

Article | 4/05/2011 Google Shopping launches in Australia

A post on the official Google Australia blog has announced the launch of Google Shopping in Australia. Available as a part of Google's search engine, ...

Article | 4/05/2011 Optus launches consumer cloud storage service

Optus today launched a cloud service called Smart Safe that allows customers to back up and store content from a compatible mobile phone or PC onto it...

Article | 4/05/2011 First look at BlackBerry PlayBook native email, PIM apps

Research In Motion (RIM) showed off the upcoming native e-mail and personal information management (PIM) apps for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet for t...

Article | 4/05/2011 RIM not sitting still with PlayBook

Research in Motion doesn't want you to judge the PlayBook by its first-edition cover.

Article | 3/05/2011 Julian Assange: Facebook an 'appalling spying machine'

Julian Assange claims that Facebook is complacent in providing the U.S. government with a way to spy on its citizens, calling it "the most appalling s...

Article | 29/04/2011 Xoom does better than expected

Motorola Mobility shipped 250,000 Xoom tablets in the first month the device was available, the company said on Thursday as part of its first-quarter ...

Article | 28/04/2011 AFL games live on Telstra mobiles, tablets and T-Box from 2012

Telstra has announced that all AFL games will be streamed live to mobile phones and tablets from 2012, following a landmark $1.25 billion AFL televisi...

Article | 26/04/2011 Users report BlackBerry PlayBooks failing to restart

Some BlackBerry PlayBook tablets that Research in Motion released last Tuesday are suddenly failing to restart. Some even simply stop working while in...

Article | 27/04/2011 Dropbox: A file sharer's dream tool?

The folks behind Dropbox have not been having an easy time recently. First it was suggested their PC client might be insecure, then changes in their t...

Article | 27/04/2011 MIPS porting Google's Android 3.0 OS for its processors

MIPS Technologies on Tuesday said it was porting Google's Android 3.0 operating system, code-named Honeycomb, to work with its microprocessors.

Article | 27/04/2011 Google to loosen up Apps contract terms

Google will allow companies to sign up users for its paid <a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html">Apps for Business</a> hoste...

Article | 26/04/2011 Hands on with Sony's S1, S2 tablet PCs

Sony will take its first step into the tablet market later this year when it launches two devices. Prototypes of the two tablets were previewed at a T...

Article | 26/04/2011 Sony to launch two Android tablets later this year

Sony will make its long-awaited entry into the tablet PC market later this year with two models based on the latest version of Google's Android operat...

Article | 23/04/2011 24 hours with the BlackBerry PlayBook

I bought a Blackberry PlayBook yesterday, but I'll probably return it.

Article | 19/04/2011 Telstra to launch Motorola Xoom in May

Telstra has confirmed it will sell the Motorola Xoom Android tablet in Australia from next month following weeks of rumours.