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10/12/2019
China bans ABC's website
The Chinese goverment has confirmed that it has officially banned the ABC's website from being accessed in their country. Though there was initially no explanation for the censorship, a statement was eventually given to the ABC by an official from the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commision, citing that they have the right to take
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10/12/2019
Biohacker Fights Transport NSW Over Cyborg Rights
NSW seems to be the place for taking unprecedented ethical disputes to court. Besides legislators trying to hash out who will inherit your dank memes after you die, a Sydney bio-hacker has taken legal action against the New South Wales government for infringing upon his cyborg rights. Though this story is certainly a far cry from the sci-fi tales
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10/12/2019
Australia Lands World's First 5G Trial
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Australia has landed the world's first 5G public trial. The country's largest telco Telstra announced the switch that kicked off alongside the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Cited as the next generation of Wi-Fi, 5G networks are built from cutting-edge technology that promises to deliver faster speeds and better connectivity to
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10/12/2019
Apple announces credit card & streaming service
Apple's big keynote events -  in which the company announces all of their fancy new upcoming devices - have become a lauded tradition for the conglomerate, and an excitable time for tech-heads and Mac-Loyalists everywhere. The sort of gadgets Apple usually announce at these things have ranged from "cutting edge world-changing technology" to "the
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2/12/2019
Superfast 5G internet is closer than ever
Optus has said we could have a 5G network as early as next year. The telco recently conducted an outdoor trial which saw download speeds of up to 2Gbps - a rate 15 times faster than the current 4G network. At these speeds, 5G may even be poised to outstrip the NBN - especially considering it's completely wireless. Optus Managing Director of
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27/11/2019
Special Offers - MyNetFone
Who are MyNetFone? If you’re searching for a broadband plan right now, chances are you’ve heard of the Big 4 major providers (Telstra, Optus, TPG and iiNet) and the cheap-as-chips guys who operate off of infrastructure owned by the Big 4 (Dodo, Club Telco). But MyNetFone might be new to you.Click here to check out MyNetFone’s 500GB Naked DSL plan –
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27/11/2019
Operating System as Religion – A Surefire Argument Starter
I am not the first blogger, writer or smartarse to suggest that the fierce loyalties pledged by techies to their operating system of choice is akin to religious competition. Sure there’s less death (SO FAR), but the passion by which an Apple loyalist will defend themselves against an Android user, and vice versa, comes loaded with the same
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22/11/2019
Vodafone to enter fixed-line market with NBN plans
The NBN has given Vodafone (1300 106 571) the chance to move into the fixed-line broadband market, the company announced today at a parliamentary committee.Vodafone, long known for their great value mobile plans and mobile broadband services, praised the NBN for the way it has opened up room for competition amongst Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
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22/11/2019
A Song of Ice and Fibre – How the major ISPs stack up against each other
Before anyone points it out - I'm aware that 'Ice' =! Copper. This was better than "Game of Phones", which made less sense. Sue me. The National Broadband Network (NBN) will eventually get built, despite the battle in Canberra over its future (its Labor’s baby; the LNP have vowed to kill it like Pharaoh would have killed Moses, but will probably
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20/11/2019
How to properly compare the first round of NBN based pricing
The National Broadband Network is probably always going to be a political hot-button issue, at least until the full transition has completed (which may be 10 years or more away). Right now, in these early stages of actually signing customers on to the network, the pricing war is underway, and the figures change from week to week. Meanwhile.
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15/11/2019
Telstra and Motorola team up for the release of the Motorola XOOM
The highly anticipated Motorola Xoom will be available to Australians from May on Telstra’s Next G network. The tablet device is the first to run on the Android™ 3.0 (Honeycomb) platform. The Motorola Xoom includes a 1GHz dual-core processor and 1 GB of RAM, 32GB of memory, front-facing and rear-facing cameras, true multi-tasking functionality, and
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15/11/2019
Telstra and Vodafone reduce Samsung Galaxy Tab by more than half
Telstra and Vodafone have cut the pricing of the seven inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, with Telstra offering the tablet for just $408 outright.When the device was first released in late 2010, the upfront charge was $999. The Galaxy Tab can also be purchased on 24-month contracts which include mobile data to use each month.The Samsung Galaxy Tab uses the
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