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Australian fans of Electronic Arts' brand new and much talked-about Spore video game now have the chance to play its mobile version too, namely Spore Origins. Telstra has just announced that, via its subsidiary BigPond, it is offering the mobile game to any of its subscribers owning a Next G handset and willing ... |
4 September 2008
11:20 GMT |
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Today, Treo Pro, Palm's latest and greatest smartphone, was confirmed by Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier, to be Blue Tick approved. This means that the handset is "recommended" by the carrier for usage all over Australia (metro and rural areas included), being the first Next G smartphone to get ... |
4 September 2008
08:54 GMT |
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Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier, announced today that, together with Visa and NAB (National Australian Bank), it intends to offer mobile payment options to its customers. The Australian carrier has launched a mobile payment trial, which involves a group of merchants and consumers from Melbourne Dockl... |
27 August 2008
20:41 GMT |
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Recent figures revealed by research firm Gartner say that Mac sales in Australia have increased some 52 percent in the second quarter. This is almost six times the rate of the overall PC industry, CourierMail reports, also adding that Australia's figures for Mac adoption have even topped US numbers.In the US, th... |
21 August 2008
05:09 GMT |
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BlackBerry Bold 9000, the newest and coolest smartphone manufactured by the Canada-based RIM, is now available in Australia, for Telstra's business customers. The largest Australian mobile carrier is selling the handset for a recommended retail price of 999 AUD (about 870 USD or 590 Euros). The Bold can also b... |
18 August 2008
02:59 GMT |
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Australian & New Zealand residents and iTunes users can now rent or download movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, MGM, Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate, according to Apple. More information, including pr... |
15 August 2008
05:38 GMT |
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Telstra, the largest mobile carrier in Australia, announced the availability of a new and huge online collection of MP3s, via its subsidiary BigPond. In consequence, the BigPond Music store now allows music lovers to search and download songs (in MP3 format) from the most famous record labels in the world: Sony BMG, ... |
14 August 2008
08:42 GMT |
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The Australian Law Reform Commission has decided to forward a bill aimed at making people feel secure as far as their privacy is concerned, without the need of cutting off access to nearly all Internet resources. "People appreciate that other interests often come into the balance - such as freedom of speech, child pr... |
11 August 2008
10:13 GMT |
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Paris was the first European location chosen by Google to be part of the Street View project and Tour de France was a great opportunity for a July launch of the new online service coming from the search giant. However, now Street View is going to Australia and Japan, despite the fact that nothing happening there at t... |
5 August 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Fallout 3' effective ban from sales in Australia is text book example of how games should not be treated by censors. The Office of Film and Literature Classification in Australia, known as the OFLC, only charged with rating games because the politicians could not tell that the new medium of expression has rather... |
5 August 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Telstra, the leading Australian mobile operator, announced that as of today (the 1st of August), its subscribers can stream live horse races directly on their Telstra 3G and Next G handsets. This "sports offering" comes after an agreement with ThoroughVisioN (also known as TVN) and is available via Telstra's sub... |
1 August 2008
11:09 GMT |
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Optus, the second largest Australian mobile carrier, has announced that it will start offering two new satellite phones from Thuraya Telecommunications, a well-known satellite mobile services provider. This comes after Optus and Thuraya (based in the United Arab Emirates) have signed an agreement that will bring even... |
1 August 2008
08:40 GMT |
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Everyone wants a few extra days of vacation. However, from simply wanting that, to actually misleading the managers of the company you are working at is a long way. An Australia-based website is offering solutions to those who want to take some extra days off work or to get out of a gym membership, on such grounds as... |
31 July 2008
11:26 GMT |
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Telstra, the largest Australian mobile operator, has announced the release of a new LG handset to work on its fast Next G network: LG KF390. The phone will be offered in Australia only by Telstra and it was added to the carrier's Blue Tick family of devices. This means that it can be used in rural and remote are... |
31 July 2008
03:42 GMT |
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Strike Force Sales, an Australian company that undertakes professional prospectings of the market, conducted a survey to see how promptly companies replied to customers' emails. The author of the study, Chris Moriarty, Managing Director of the company, is still waiting for an answer to an email sent more than 8 ... |
31 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier, has issued today a press-release that contains both good and bad news for the mobile users in the country (or at least for those users who like BlackBerry handsets). The good news is that the much-talked-about BlackBerry Bold 9000 has reached Australia and is already... |
28 July 2008
11:12 GMT |
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Optus, the second largest mobile carrier in Australia, has announced the availability of two new unlimited voice and messaging plans. Called "'yes' Timeless," the new plan will offer to the Australian subscribers of Optus unlimited national calls and unlimited messages to any national GSM network. The... |
24 July 2008
11:22 GMT |
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Telstra, the largest mobile operator in Australia, has recently released two new cool mobile phones to work on its Next G network: Samsung U900 Soul and LG KF700. The handsets are offered by Telstra under the names of Samsung U900T and LG KF700Q respectively. Both are sliders and both are available for retail prices ... |
16 July 2008
09:32 GMT |
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Why should scammers and spammers limit themselves to the Internet when there are far more mobile phone users than web surfers? In Australia there is a new scam going on, that attempts to separate people from their hard earned money by informing them that a hitman has been hired to kill them. Of course, you can get a... |
12 July 2008
07:37 GMT |
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RIM and Motorola have recently announced the availability of BlackBerry Connect 4.0 for all the Asutralian users who own a Moto Q 9h Windows Mobile smartphone. BlackBerry Connect is a software that provides access to the useful and well-known BlackBerry services, offering support for push-email and attachment viewin... |
11 July 2008
11:18 GMT |
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Apparently, the Australian government does not like post apocalyptic scenarios too much. I say this because I can't see any other reason for the banning of the upcoming Bethesda title called Fallout 3 in the region. A governmental site shows the fact that the game has no rating at the moment but no official reas... |
10 July 2008
10:18 GMT |
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VoIP is a global application that became popular as a business tool and that, afterwards, was easily adopted by domestic users. While the American and European market for the program are expanding rapidly, the evolution of the Australian one is a bit delayed.The reasons for this vary from the lack of broadband in som... |
9 July 2008
05:32 GMT |
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On a home front, Kaspersky software has been doing rather well recently, which has determined the company to expand. At the recent 10th annual partner conference held in St. Petersburg, Kaspersky let its worldwide partners in on the expansion plans, which include opening an office in Australia. Eugene Kasperky, as c... |
8 July 2008
06:11 GMT |
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Telstra is the last Australian mobile carrier to announce the upcoming launch of Apple's new iPhone 3G in Australia, after Optus and Vodafone have already presented their 3G iPhonesque plans. While both Optus and Vodafone announced the iPhone 3G since June 9, Telstra got official with Apple's new handset no... |
30 June 2008
06:41 GMT |
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HTC Touch Diamond, the new and fashionable Pocket PC unveiled by HTC on the 6th of May in London, will be available in Australia starting mid-August. The handset is offered only by Telstra, the largest Australian mobile carrier, and will be available through all its shops and dealers across the Southern Hemisphere co... |
27 June 2008
11:44 GMT |
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iTunes down-under version now includes popular TV shows such as "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," "South Park," "Pimp my Ride" and "McLeod's Daughters," as a result of Apple having inked in deals with Australia's top networks including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Seven Network and Nine Network.US... |
26 June 2008
02:59 GMT |
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When Apple officially presented its new iPhone 3G, on June 9, it also unveiled the carriers to sell the handset around the world, starting July 11. At that time, only Optus and Vodafone were announced to offer the iPhone 3G in Australia, leaving out Telstra, the country's largest mobile operator. But Telstra ... |
20 June 2008
04:52 GMT |
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Those of you who are hardcore Halo 3 or GTA IV fans probably don't know too much about the social online game Club Penguin, but it seems that most of the kids in the world do and, even more: they just love it! As solid proof stands the fact that Disney is planning to hire a team to manage the operation of the ga... |
19 June 2008
16:16 GMT |
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Earlier this week, Apple was announcing the Grand Opening of its first Apple Retail Store in Australia. The company has also issued an official report revealing what customers can expect on the occasion.The store's manager will open the doors at 5:00 p.m. for folks to barge in, nab one of those Limited Edition T... |
19 June 2008
02:55 GMT |
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Apple has confirmed that the Grand Opening of the Sydney Apple Store will take place this week, on Thursday, June 19, at 5 pm. The first 2,500 customers through the door will receive limited edition T-shirts.The Apple Store, Sydney is located at 367-373 George Street in Sydney, at the corner of King and George Street... |
17 June 2008
07:08 GMT |
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Leveraging on the fact that lots of mobile users don't actually know how to use all the features included in their handsets, Telstra, the largest Australian mobile carrier, has launched a new service that can instruct you in becoming more informed on what your handset can do for you. Don't really know wha... |
13 June 2008
09:46 GMT |
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Telstra, Australia's leading mobile carrier, together with Ericsson, have announced a new feature for the Next G Australian network, namely the so-called 3G Direct Tunnel. This 3G Direct Tunnel will allow Telstra's network to function at an increased capacity and, therefore, to support the continuously grow... |
11 June 2008
11:02 GMT |
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If you had any doubts about the fact that fashion as seen on screen is all-powerful and knows no limits, or if you thought that Hollywood glamor was pretty much exclusive to American cinema, think again. Great fashion - particularly when it's conveyed via the silver screen and it's all about high-powered wo... |
29 May 2008
02:56 GMT |
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When talking about hackers, it doesn't matter in which country their targets are based because all they want are vulnerable targets that could let them break into their computers. However, when it comes to their favorite location to take over computer systems, it seems like Australia has something special becaus... |
27 May 2008
05:50 GMT |
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Sony is really pushing hard for numbers to prove that the PlayStation 3 is just as competitive as the Xbox 360 from Microsoft when it comes to gaming consoles sales. Recently, the head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, David Reeves, claimed that the absolute sales of the PlayStation 3 were better than those of t... |
22 May 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Palm recently announced that the popular Centro smartphone is getting a release in Australia, via Telstra, the country's largest mobile operator. The Centro will be available for 299 Australian dollars (about 287 USD), starting May 26 - apparently only for the Pre-Paid customers of Telstra. Centro is the sm... |
21 May 2008
08:20 GMT |
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After revealing two highly anticipated titles, Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise and Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Microsoft has decided to offer another awesome thing: the official, original Xbox 360 chopper! Valued at $80,000, the one of a kind jewel can't be bought but instead, one lucky fellow will win it and ... |
14 May 2008
04:49 GMT |
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What has already happened in other countries around the world, including here China, could also happen in Australia, as the local government wants to provide a subsidy to the country's ISPs in order to install filters and restrict access to certain online content, CNET Australia reported. The Internet Service Pr... |
14 May 2008
03:47 GMT |
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"Coolest Girl In School" is the name of a controversial mobile game developed by Champagne for the Ladies and Kukan Studio, two Australian providers of mobile entertainment. The game was first released in Australia, and it's now also available internationally, so anyone can try it out. Presented as being... |
10 May 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson came up with a new competition for music fans, this time for the ones of Leona Lewis, the British pop/R&B female singer. The competition addresses only to Australian fans, so those not living there can only wait for Sony Ericsson to initiate a similar contest in their country too.Leona Lewis will be per... |
26 April 2008
04:54 GMT |
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The latest Music Store portal opened by the Finnish giant mobile company is Nokia Music Store Australia, which comes as the seventh Store of this type, after the ones from the UK, Finland, Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands. As in the case of the already existing Nokia Music Stores, the Australian one will c... |
22 April 2008
05:12 GMT |
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They are shot, trapped, poisoned by sheep and cattle farmers. No wonder that the Australian wild dog, the dingo, is menaced. Ecologists warn that pure breed animals may vanish in 40-100 years, due to the cross with the ordinary dogs. By now, the main issue is the proliferation of the hybrids. Dingoes mate once a year... |
15 April 2008
14:26 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company plans the expansion of Google Maps Street View, the web service which shows street-level panoramas only using your browser. According to several reports, multiple Google cars supposed to be used for capturing Street View photos, were spotted in Australia, a matter which attracted, once... |
14 April 2008
02:39 GMT |
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Apple's iPhone is impatiently awaited by Australia and, although there have been various rumors about its launch, there were no official details to sustain it, not from Apple and nor from any of the Australian carriers. The wait will apparently be ended in June, when not only that the iPhone hits the Australi... |
10 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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America still had to wait for an Ice Age to pass when modern humans entered Australia. Australian Aborigines make one of the world's oldest continuous culture (perhaps just the Bushmen of South Africa are older); some Australian archaeological sites revealed a 40,000-year-old Aboriginal presence. Now, a researc... |
8 April 2008
04:28 GMT |
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The Australian computers and intelligent devices are expected to be seriously affected by a semi-Y2K issue, that will put out of sync the internal clocks on computers, smart-phones and corporate servers. The synchronization troubles are caused by the new daylight saving time regulations imposed across the south-easte... |
28 March 2008
09:32 GMT |
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No surprise here! Out of the few couple of millions of objects floating around in Earth's orbit, at least some must come back from time to time. Just last week, a cattle farmer from Australia reported another incident in which a strange object suddenly appeared in a remote region of the northern outback. He beli... |
28 March 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Fortunately, this has nothing to do with the recent Byron's review. However, this could be considered some sort of bad news for those who hoped that the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General meeting will actually change the Australian rating system and it will have as a result a slightly more permissive one. N... |
28 March 2008
06:11 GMT |
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Fighting crime is a lot easier to do when police officers don't have to go around knocking on every door until they find something of help. Those interested in lending the helping hand can now send video footage or imagery of crimes being committed that they have chanced upon directly by email, news.com.au repor... |
24 March 2008
11:33 GMT |
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Right, if you're a cybercriminal that wants to make some cash on the side, you're not a stranger to the way 'install' selling works. It's really not that difficult, come to think of it. The big time spyware authors are willing to pay scores of dough for having their malicious code spread to P... |
20 March 2008
14:51 GMT |
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