Fox launched the Digital HD initiative back in late 2012, around the home entertainment launch of “Prometheus”. The service was intended to make digital versions of new release films available for purchase ahead of the DVD or Blu-ray releases. Back at launch, for example, “Prometheus” was available as Digital HD three weeks before it arrived …

Freeview FreeviewPlus, the HbbTV upgrade to the existing Freeview has finally been given a launch date. The service will begin operation on September 2, with Freeview today announcing an ad campaign to begin educating users about FreeviewPlus. The service will integrate both broadcast and catchup TV services into a single offering. You’ll be able to browse ahead on the 7-day …

Budget MVNO Amaysim is making some changes to its top level mobile plan, along with removing its offering of free data for select social sites from all plans. The Unlimited plan from Amaysim will now come with 5GB of data, up from the original 4GB. The plan will also increase from AU$39.90 a month to AU$44.90. Other aspects of the …

Optus has revamped its prepaid mobile offering, with two daily plans joining the more traditional monthly system. The Prepaid Daily plan offers 30 mins of calls, unlimited SMS and 40MB of data for AU$1. Go over your call and data limited and Optus will “auto bump” the plan to AU$1.50 with unlimited calls and 80MB of data. From there, you’ll …

Symantec The wearable market is currently estimated be worth around $14 billion and it’s on the way up. According to AB Research, by 2018 over 485 million wearable devices will ship each year. Fitness trackers are just one part of the market, but they’re a high profile one and it’s little surprise that they’ve fallen under Symantec’s security microscope. Symantec’s …

New data shows that mobile phone users in Australia are turning to MVNOs — mobile virtual network operators that resell connectivity from larger telcos — for their data and call needs. In fact, according to the data from Kantor Worldpanel ComTech, MVNOs such as Amaysim and Aldi were the only providers to gain ground in terms of total market share, …

Dendy Cinemas has put a launch date on Dendy Direct, its new video on demand offering. The service will begin operation on August 6 and will sell or rent videos with no monthly subscription fees. Dendy will vary its pricing according to file resolution and the age of the film, but it estimated that a rental of the SD version …

Netflix Aussie pirates have often defended their actions by saying that they would purchase shows (or watch on free-to-air) if that was an option. Instead, they claim, the difficultly in being able to watch their shows in a timely fashion is what drives them to torrent sites. But how realistic is this? Tech culture blog Reckoner has done some rather …

CNET LG’s G3 smartphone has been getting great press and rave reviews for a while now — we gave it 4.5 stars last month. The only issue has been its availability, or lack thereof, in Australia. But we’re finally getting some tiny titbits of info trickling in from the Aussie telcos about the G3. Remember that the official RRP from …

CNET It’s no secret that Australians are big users of Netflix. Thanks to the simplicity of VPNs more and more Aussies are dodging around the geoblock to become paying subscribers of the US-based video on demand service. Now, courtesy of Australian financial app Pocketbook, we have some figures to put on the local Netflix usage. Using data from its own …