Foxtel is looking decidedly un-Foxtelish these days. Pay TV without the cable. Playing nice with other streaming services. A Foxtel box that doesn’t really look like a Foxtel box. The company Wednesday announced the launch of the Foxtel Now Box — a set-top puck created for Foxtel’s pay-by-the-month streaming service, Foxtel Now, a puck which …

Telstra will now have to compensate 42,000 customers after offering high speed NBN plans that failed to deliver the promised speeds.  The ACCC revealed Wednesday that Telstra sold advertised speeds to its customers, including its 100Mbps  “Super Fast Speed Boost” plan, despite the fact that some of these customers had no way of getting these speeds in the real world. …

Production problems? Forget it. The iPhone 8? A distant memory. Throwing down more than a grand for the latest and greatest iPhone? That’s what they’re here for. The iPhone X went on sale around the world on Friday, drawing crowds and long lines as Apple fans patiently waited to get their hands on the very best iPhone money can buy. …

Telstra announced Thursday that it will introduce unlimited data plans for top-tier broadband customers by the end of the month, as well as doubling data allowances for customers on lower plans. The deal, which Telstra is dubbing a “data gift,” will see new and existing Telstra home broadband customers on $99 and above plans get unlimited data. Telstra says it …

All right team, it’s time we had a chat about three little letters that have a massive effect on the price and speed of your broadband plan. Not “NBN”. We’re talking about “CVC”. It stands for Connectivity Virtual Circuit charge, and it was put in place by NBN (the company currently building your national broadband network). It’s part of the …

If Telstra has its way, you’ll never have to go anywhere else for entertainment ever again. The telco announced Monday the launch of Telstra TV2, also dubbed “the new Telstra TV,” building on the first generation, Roku-powered set-top box it first released in 2015. The second-gen device has a lot of the same features as the original Telstra TV — …

Watch out, Netflix and Hulu: There’s a new streaming service in town. And it could have everything movie and TV fans want. Launching Thursday, Movies Anywhere is a new all-in-one service that will bring some of the world’s biggest movie studios and digital streaming platforms together into the one platform, meaning US viewers can watch content bought from multiple services …

Bill Gates has given up his Windows phone. HP is pulling production of its flagship Windows handset. Now Microsoft has finally seen the writing on the wall — there aren’t enough people using Windows 10 Mobile or enough apps to make it viable. Corporate vice president of Windows 10 and head of Microsoft’s “PC-Tablet-Phone” division, Joe Belfiore, said on Twitter Sunday …

This is guaranteed to make you feel old: eBay just turned 18 in Australia. To celebrate, eBay is running what it calls “the biggest ever site-wide sale” for Australian buyers and sellers on Thursday, Sept. 21.  From 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. AEST, eBay is cutting prices by 18 percent. No matter whether you’re buying from a private seller or …

Australia, we’ve long thought we’re getting ripped off when it comes to what media we can legally access online. Now we have the stats to prove it. When it comes to what we can watch on streaming services, new research conducted by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and ACCAN, shows Australians are massively losing out compared to Americans. Only …