A massive, nation-wide outage has hit Telstra for the second time in as many months, leaving the telco red-faced and on the back foot defending its network. But in a bid to keep customers onside, Telstra will once again offer a free data day to make up for the network failure. The problem affected roughly …

Football fans (fans of the one true football code we should say), it’s time to rejoice: Australia is getting its first ever 24-hour soccer channel. But there’s a hefty catch — you’ll need to be an Optus customer to get the goods. After nabbing the rights for the English Premier League in November last year, Optus today confirmed how it …

In 2015, it was all about Dallas Buyers Club. Now, the legal fight against piracy is ramping up once more with two of Australia’s biggest names in entertainment petitioning the Federal Court to block piracy websites. Both Foxtel and Roadshow Films — the movie distribution arm of Village Roadshow — appeared before Justice John Nicholas in the Federal Court in …

Would you pay $50 to stream a movie at home? What if it meant skipping the queues and seeing the movie on the same day it opens in theaters? That’s the proposition behind Screening Room, the new streaming service from Napster co-founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker and entertainment mogul Prem Akkaraju. And with Variety reporting that Streaming Room …

It’s been less than a year since one of the world’s biggest names in tech launched the much-hyped Apple Watch and, since then, it seems every tech brand and their dog has jumped on the wearables train. Now Optus has joined the fray, going down a very un-telco path with the release of what it calls a range of “lifestyle” …

“It’s not okay to just say, ‘Switch off.’ And it’s also not okay to say, ‘It’s just online, it doesn’t count.’ It does count, and it’s having a real impact on women’s lives.” That’s the assessment of Canadian-Australian author, women’s rights advocate and UNICEF ambassador Tara Moss, who has used International Women’s Day to speak out about online harassment and …

Oh Twitter — you may distract us from our work and lead to countless hours wasted on hashtag games, but you do really hold your own when it comes to celebrity spats. Who could forget Bette Midler squaring off against the much younger Ariana Grande, “All About Eve”-style, over the young ingenue’s choice of barely there clothing. Or One Direction …

It might be time to start a Kickstarter for Kanye West. That’s the call from Deadmau5 (aka music producer and DJ Joel Thomas Zimmerman) after he spotted what looked like Kanye’s attempt to download music editing software from online file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. In typical rockstar fashion, Deadmau5 used some colourful words. Language warning: Cussing imminent. Kanye tweeted a …

Just like the Oscars and the Super Bowl, the race to the White House is set to capture the attention of the world this year. And just as with those movie awards and the big game, for many of us it’s not really about watching career achievers fulfill a lifelong dream to rise to the top of their field. It’s …

There’s no doubt that Twitter has been revolutionary. But for the uninitiated, logging into the microblogging platform can be a bit like getting hit with a firehose of news, social commentary, hot takes and Friday Lizard memes. To help cut through the cacophony, Twitter launched Moments — curated feeds of tweets that bring together all the news and discussion around …