Each year in June, just about every head in the tech world starts dutifully craning toward California to see what genius Apple will come up with next at WWDC. But this June, there’s a whole other world of tech happening outside the US. Forget WWDC, forget E3, forget Silicon Valley — if you want to …

I’ve been using internet banking for more than a decade like a complete chump. And it only takes a few minutes of using Beemit to realise how annoying net banking is by comparison. It might not have the best name, but Beemit is going to change how we transfer money and split bills in Australia. Backed by Westpac, NAB and …

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has redefined Twitter. The US president has become a force to be reckoned with on the social media platform, dictating policy via tweets, firing off midnight missives, blocking his dissenters and redefining the diplomatic agenda (hashtag Little Rocket Man). But while his opponents argue that Trump’s behaviour on Twitter contravenes the platform’s terms of …

Optus has been hit with an AU$1.5 million fine for misleading customers about the switch to the NBN, including threatening customers with disconnection if they didn’t make the switch. According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACC), Optus misled customers into transitioning from legacy HFC networks to the NBN. This included telling them they had to choose Optus as …

Facebook is going further in its fight against revenge porn, expanding a pilot program that lets users upload intimate pictures before they’ve hit the internet in a bid to stop them from ever being shared. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Facebook’s Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis said the company was updating its pilot program targeting the non-consensual sharing …

TPG wants to be Australia’s big new mobile telco, and it’s offering free unlimited data to convince you. The TPG Mobile Network will launch within months (it’s given a date of between July and December), offering the first customers to sign up unlimited data for free for six months. From then, it will charge AU$9.99 a month. TPG says this …

Telstra has fixed a nationwide network outage that knocked out 4G voice calls and voice calls over NBN some users.  Customers began complaining of the outage on Tuesday afternoon, saying they were unable to make or receive calls. The telco advised customers through social media and its network outages page that an issue was affecting some 4G voice calls, and …

Optus has announced Tuesday it is will stream every match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup this June through July, with all Australians able to access the games, regardless of whether they’re an Optus customer. The Optus Sport app (previously only available to select Optus customers) will be the only way Australians can watch all 64 matches in the World …

Telstra and Vodafone have kicked off a competition war for the next mobile frontier: Unlimited data.  On Tuesday, the telcos both announced the launch of unlimited mobile data plans, promising to kill excess data charges and let Aussies stream and post without limits. There’s just one small catch. You will be limited by speeds. Telstra’s Endless Data Plan launches on Thursday, …

The outgoing CEO of NBN Co has fired a politely-worded missive against the federal government’s NBN strategy, pointing out that yes, using existing copper networks is a cheap way to build a national broadband network, but no, it’s not the way to get the fastest network. Bill Morrow, who will finish at NBN Co at the end of the year, …