Apple just snagged itself another 5 million potential Apple Pay customers, after the tech giant announced a new partnership with one of Australia’s largest banks, ANZ. The move firmly establishes Apple in the mature Australian market, where contactless and mobile payments already make up the majority of everyday transactions (60 percent of card transactions in …

Audiophiles now have an alternative to streaming music and chewing into their data allowance with the launch of the LG Stylus DAB+, the first smartphone with a built-in digital radio tuner. DAB+ offers all the standard radio stations you’re used to listening to, plus a range of digital-only channels that cater to niche interests (country music or Christmas carols anyone?) …

We all know how the story of the Titanic starts and ends. The ship that was too big to fail sets sail on her maiden voyage with 2,224 souls on board. And in the wee hours of the morning on April 15, 1912, she hits an iceberg and sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic. Sure, we know the lore …

When Lisa Peterson became homeless, she spent months without a bed of her own. But her phone never left her sight. Driving across the country, couch-surfing and staying in crisis accommodations, Lisa would charge her phone at train stations and use free public Wi-Fi to stay connected. The idea of being “homeless with a smartphone” may sound contradictory, but for …

The stats are in: Digital music streaming has just notched up its best year on record in Australia. But while streaming sales led to a boost in overall revenues for the first time since 2012, the bigger picture is grim. In the past decade, digital sales have simply not done enough to save the bottom line as physical sales have …

After a major outage knocked out large parts of Telstra’s network last month, the telco was slammed for an entirely different reason yesterday as customers took advantage of a day of free data. Over the course of the day, Telstra says customers churned through 2,686 TB of data — equivalent to 3.4 million HD movies, and roughly 3 times the …

Samsung has announced it will shut down its Milk Music streaming service by the end of April after just over a year in the Australian market. After quietly cutting off new subscriptions last week and shutting down auto-renewals for existing customers, Samsung announced in an email to customers that it will no longer offer the service as of April 28. …

I’ll level with you. This month, everyone is going to be anticipating and then reliving the Season 6 premiere of a certain Gamey-Throney TV show that’s exclusive to Foxtel (at least I will be, after binge watching the show for five hours a day last month). So the streaming services have a lot of work to do. Luckily, they’re delivering. …

Nobody ever asked Superman whether he wanted to share a screen with Batman. When it hit cinemas this week, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” was (rightly or wrongly) billed as one of the biggest superhero films of 2016. But back in 2013, after the movie was first announced, Superman wasn’t too happy about sharing a movie franchise with the …

BlackBerry is facing death by a billion cuts after Facebook pulled support for its social media apps from the mobile platform. The decision by Facebook, which last year passed the milestone of 1 billion people using its service in one day, follows on the heels of a similar move from WhatsApp, which announced last month that it would pull BlackBerry …