Telstra’s 24×7 app shows how much data a customer has used. Screen shot by Claire Reilly/CNET Telstra customers will soon be able to get a better handle on their data usage with the announcement that the telco is introducing real-time usage alerts. Text message usage alerts have traditionally taken up to 48 hours to reach …
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Nicolas Raymond, CC BY 2.0 The majority of Australians believe they are waiting too long and paying too much for their favourite music, movies and TV shows, and that rights holders should be fixing this in order to tackle piracy, rather than calling for increased regulation. That’s according to new research [PDF] conducted by JWS Research and released by telecommunications …
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Image by Randolph Croft, CC BY 2.0 When it comes to heading into bricks and mortar stores, Australians don’t really have access to the variety of retail stores seen in the US. But thanks to globalisation, the growing popularity of online shopping and more packages making their way to Australia, prices are coming down down-under. Overseas shipping is commonplace now, …
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Candy Crush Saga. Screenshot by Jennifer Van Grove/CNET It may seem to consume every spare moment of our lives, but the world’s most famous social networking app is chewing up our mobiles too, with Facebook topping a global list of the most performance-draining Android apps, which considered battery drain, storage consumption and data use. But it’s not just Facebook draining …
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ANZ ANZ customers will soon be able to pay for their shopping at contactless terminals using a smartphone with the bank announcing the upcoming launch of the ANZ Mobile Wallet. The service is due to launch in “early 2015” and follows a trial of the NFC-driven technology, which allows customers to securely transfer and store individual or multiple ANZ card …
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Forget Netflix — if Nine Entertainment and Fairfax have their way, everyone in Australia will soon be talking about Stan. In one of the more curious branding moves we’ve seen in recent times, Nine Entertainment’s video streaming joint venture with Fairfax has been rebranded ahead of its Australian launch, changing names from StreamCo to Stan. Stan now has its own …
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Image by Pat Williams, CC BY 2.0 Unsolicited sexting, sharing unwanted “intimate images” and even threatening to distribute such images is now illegal in Victoria under new laws designed to protect digital privacy. The laws are part of a suite of changes to the Crimes Act [PDF], first announced in August, which create two new summary offences for “distribution of …
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Now playing: Watch this: Your smartphone becomes key to skipping the hotel front… 2:34 Forget losing your hotel key card in the small hours of the morning and facing a night sleeping in the corridor — thanks to a new Bluetooth-connected app, guests at Starwood Hotels will soon be able to access their room using their smartphone. Starwood Hotels, owner …
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Image by Yuri Samoilov, CC BY 2.0 While Australia’s major telcos have reserved judgement on the Government’s proposed data retention legislation, iiNet has joined a chorus of cross bench politicians and internet advocates in slamming the “Orwellian” aspects of the bill. Independent Senator Nick Xenophon is the latest to come out in opposition to the so-called ‘metadata bill’, saying the …
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The Apple iPhone 6 (left) and iPhone 6 Plus. Apple As of November 7, iiNet broadband customers will be able to get the iPhone 6 starting at AU$35 per month, or the iPhone 6 Plus starting at AU$40 per month, for a 24-month plan. The devices will also be available to new customers without an iiNet broadband service from December …
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