They say that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But if you’re Village Roadshow, the studio behind the wildly popular Lego Movie franchise and one of the most vocal critics of film piracy, you’re quite happy to make “one hell of a mistake” all over again. On March 30 next year, Australians …

Samsung is desperate to brick your Galaxy Note 7 and it’s trying one last trick to make the faulty phone all but completely useless. The company has announced that it’s partnering with Australian telecommunications providers to shut down network access for the Note 7, in a bid to get those hold-out Note 7 users to return the recalled device. The …

When it comes to taking on Apple, turns out Australia’s competition watchdog isn’t happy about Australia’s big banks banding together to boycott the tech giant over Apple Pay. The ACCC has issued a “draft determination” denying three of Australia’s “big four” banks the power to collectively bargain with Apple over its mobile payments app. While the ACCC will still seek …

Update, July 12, 2017: Telstra has updated its Travel Passes to a pay-per-day pricing structure. Read all about the new pricing here.  The telco has just announced that Telstra Air customers can get free Wi-Fi data at more than 19 million hotspots in 15 countries around the world, thanks to its partnership with international telecommunications company Fon. Overseas Wi-Fi connectivity has already …

Australia may be the land of Mad Max, but Aussies are going to have to wait longer to get their fix of Jeremy Clarkson’s new TV show “The Grand Tour.” The car show will premiere on Amazon on Friday November 18, but it will only be available to viewers in the UK, US, Germany, Austria and Japan. Everyone else around …

Climbing the Harbour Bridge, taking the ferry to Luna Park…now you can add “check out the view from the top of the Opera House sails” to your Sydney tourist bucket list. Samsung has launched a new VR experience to give visitors of the Opera House the experience of climbing the sails and checking out the view in 360-degree detail while …

Ever since Australians started getting TV streaming on demand, it’s fair to say we’ve started to expect more from media across the board. But until now, free-to-air TV hasn’t quite met the task. That could change today with the arrival of the Freeview FV app, which lets you stream every digital free-to-air TV channel to your mobile, for free. The …

Australian ISPs are lazy, our internet users get speeds so low they’re “criminal” and people across the country deserve a better NBN. That’s the assessment of Australia’s newest ISP, MyRepublic, which has arrived in Australia ahead of November 15 with a range of “NBN-built” plans, including one targeted at gamers. Already an established brand across New Zealand and Asia, MyRepublic …

How much does it cost to block a website like Kickass Torrents? According to Australia’s internet service providers, AU$50 per domain. That’s the price tag TPG has put on blocking individual domains that live in the darker corners of the internet, offering pirates access to torrents of recent movies and TV shows. TPG, Optus, Telstra and Foxtel (with its ISP …

As Australians start signing up to the NBN en masse and telcos jostle to win home broadband customers, Vodafone is jumping in to get a piece of the action, announcing it will begin offering fixed broadband services to Australians from the end of 2017. Company CEO Iñaki Berroeta confirmed the move today, saying Australians “expect connectivity whenever they want it, …