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World’s ‘first space hotel’ revealed for 400 astro-tourists Eight men facing charges over illegal streaming sites Google launches Android 10 Virgin Australia bans ALL MacBooks from checked-in luggage THE 50 BEST PLACES TO WORK. Apple to supply iPhone parts to independent repair businesses
The First Bluetooth Cassette Player iOS 13 will remind you to cancel your subscription when you delete an app Bill Gates calls failure to fight Android his “greatest mistake” Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4 Donkey Kong and Mario’s Birthday Volkswagen reveal modern Kombi van concept End of the road for Volkswagen Beetle That’s when the stress and anxiety builds up’: Mum’s whopping $465k Telstra bill ACMA finds worst NBN modems 'barely break' 50Mbps wi-fi speeds Newcastle debuts driverless CBD to beach shuttle MSY set to be acquired by mining company for $17.5m
Police charge man with telco sabotage ACCC sues Samsung over slippery mobile phone ads Microsoft slashes Windows 10 update times Apple design chief Jony Ive to leave and start own firm Wikipedia founder calls for social media strike Five Jony Ive designs you probably don't know Iran seizes 1 000 Bitcoin mining machines after power spike Wolfenstein: Youngblood - Nazi images shown in first for Germany Tracking Pixels and Superhuman App Amazon can be held liable for defective third-party products on its platform Canon is Crowdfunding a Tiny Clippable Camera that connects to your phone
Telstra finally scraps 1800 mobile plans replaces with just 20 Raspberry PI debuts Model 4 Microsoft debuts new Windows CLI Apple recalls MacBook Pros over fire risk Woolworths expands Scan&Go smartphone shopping trial
Have I Been Pwned' looks for a new owner Miller Lite beer can is also a video game controller Microsoft unveils next Xbox Uber selects Melbourne to test flying taxi service 32GB DDR4 UDIMMs are Coming Facebook will pay you to let it track what you do on your phone Google is ending integration between Google Photos and Drive LaLiga’s app listened in on fans to catch bars illegally streaming soccer Huawei's alternative OS said to be 60% faster than Android
Apple iTunes lives on for Windows PC users Apple branded 'criminal' for selling stand that costs as much as an iPhone Officeworks launches mobile phone service Telstra to switch payphones to flat call rate Apple's biggest reveals at WWDC 2019 Xbox beauty products waft into supermarkets
NAB purges almost 2000 ATMs ACCC hauls Sony to court for refusing Playstation refunds Telstra picks $129 and 160GB as 5G plan sweet spot Canva hacked - user details accessed but passwords safe Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to face leadership vote Malware-ridden laptop artwork sold for $1.3m Alexa Skill Aimed at Assisting Alzheimer’s Patients Smart Hearables Are Coming Apple starts collecting data for Apple Maps
Facebook restricts Live feature citing New Zealand shooting weird dual-screen laptop WhatsApp whacked by government-grade spyware Counterfeit hard drive gang smashed by Chinese police Critical wormhole brings patches for Windows XP and Server 2003 Google to show ads on homepage of mobile site app
Microsoft may ditch 60-day password refresh weaken BitLocker Microsoft warns Windows 10 May Update messes with PC storage Minecraft player loses five-year-long game Telstra cable customers given free speed boost as NBN delays continue Facebook will be overrun by dead people within 50 years researchers say Systems with small disks won’t be able to install Windows 10 May 2019 update Google will soon let you auto-delete your location tracking data Useful widgets called Tiles are being added to Wear OS smartwatches ATO throws out a data dragnet for cryptocurrency tax crackdown
Google's drone delivery service takes off in Canberra Labor’s NBN policy calls for re-wiring of 750 000 homes Microsoft pauses Windows 10 upgrades advises admins to prepare for May release Melbourne rejects flagship Apple Store Illegally downloaded 'Game of Thrones' episodes expose you to viruses that hijack your computer McDonalds tells customers to show ID as card fraud bites… again First Australia - Hong Kong data cable to be built PlayStation users can now change their PSN names Microsoft reveals all the Google things it removed in its Chromium Edge browser Google turns your Android phone into a security key
NBN Co technicians miss 469 appointments a day Telstra is dragging its public payphones into the 21st century AWS drops cloud storage price to $2/terabyte/month Kogan again tops consumer complaints list Google shuts failed social network Google+ Google begins shutting down its failed Google+ social network Scooti you can now hail a two-wheeled taxi ride When it come to IT systems What is a honeypot? lenovos-design-for-a-foldable-smartphone-is-one-of-the-more-unique-weve-seen-so-far google-inbox-is-dead-but-you-can-use-spark-and-spike-apps-instead does-apple-even-care-about-computers-anymore the-new-apple-card-wont-let-you-switch-from-iphone-to-android-probably-ever
NBN Co moves to kill off 12Mbps broadband plans Facebook cares about privacy so much it stored passwords as plaintext Google reveals gaming platform Stadia MySpace admits losing 12 years' worth of music uploads The new Apple Card and how it works Don’t change your Twitter birthday to 2007 unless you want to get kicked off for being under 13 Apple unveils its subscription streaming service Apple TV+ Scooti you can now hail a two-wheeled taxi ride
Google Home Hub is the Most Popular Smart Display in Australia Windows 10 to automatically uninstall faulty monthly updates Dyson Pure Cool Me - Designed to make your personal space comfortable Avoid Google Play Store apps that promise to update your Android phone Court makes orders in Telstra "Belong" trademark case against solar power company Microsoft bows to Chrome Firefox with security tweak Dropbox limits free accounts to just three devices Google fined another US$1.7 billion for ad blocks by EU Google to prompt Android users to choose preferred browsers Microsoft resurrects Clippy Telstra turns on 10 000th mobile network site
Facebook Instagram suffer outages as complaints mount Google confirms issues affecting Gmail Google Drive What is Mercury in Retrograde and Why Do We Blame Things On It? Sydney man charged for selling stolen Netflix Spotify credentials Windows 7 to nag users into replacing it Telstra takes energy provider to court over Belong trademark Google slugs Australia with extra G Suite price rise Man told he's going to die by doctor on video-link robot Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp access issues A Chinese subway is experimenting with facial recognition to pay for fares What is Cryptojacking?
Microsoft to start selling Windows 7 add-on support from April Officeworks buys Sydney-based PC repairs and tech support provider Geeks2U Microsoft disbands Band wearable business Melbourne Council opposes Apple Store in Federation Square Update Google Chrome Right Now Don't buy a foldable smartphone in 2019 Google gives Android developers new tools to make money from users who won’t pay Fitbit’s new $160 Versa Lite Smartwatch The Galaxy S10 and LG G8 are the latest phones to get T-Mobile’s spam-fighting call verification
Don’t waste your money on Office 2019 (says Microsoft) Relive your Windows 95 glory days with this free app YouTube rival Vimeo revenue jumps 54 percent in 2018 Apple to investigate Saudi app Is new game Apex Legends a threat to Fortnite?
GUEST: IAN DAVIDSON from gofar.co MYOB ponders selling software at the petrol pump Disability-themed emojis approved for use Gmail is now blocking 100 million extra spam messages every day with AI New $199 Bose Frames are Audio Sunglasses Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking Optus has been fined $10 million for misleading customers
Apple to fix FaceTime privacy bug Apple Australia rakes in $9 billion Fortnite Australia Open 2019: Summer Smash - Final placements and results Microsoft hit by global cloud login problems iPhones aren't too expensive says Apple CEO Tim Cook Facebook is giving Teens $20 for thier data Project Alias- Gives Users Privacy from the “Always Listening” Smart Speakers Prince Charles' charity to stop taking Huawei donations
Daily Mail demands browser warning U-turn After a long hold out Commbank turns on Apple Pay ’Single-use’ people’s choice for 2018 word John McAfee has recruited 'hundreds' of masked look-alikes for his 2020 presidential bid Xiaomi’s folding phone Amazon is trialing its own delivery robot called Scout FACEBOOK'S '10 YEAR CHALLENGE' IS HARMLESS - RIGHT? Google's Plan To Limit Ad-Blocker Performance On Chrome
Poor iPhone demand GST drags down Kogan Google G Suite price hike coming Domino's Pizza defeated in court over app Microsoft Australia smashes $2 billion milestone Apple boss Tim Cook sees $4 million pay hike In 2018 Sofia Coppola to direct Bill Murray in Apple's first film Broke teen who sold kidney for an iPhone now bedridden for life Royole's 2nd Generation Cicada WingTM Smartphone with Fully Flexible Display LG’s upcoming G8 flagship may have an attachable second screen Whirlpool Announces 4 New Google Assistant Integrated Products at CES 2019 Google today announced that it is raising the price of its G Suite subscriptions. Some of the Latest Smart Office Tech from CES 2019
Telstra loses appeal on Optus' "Empires End" ad campaign Google to spend US$1 billion on new campus in New York Apple to build new US$1 billion campus in Texas NBN Co expects December data usage hike to reach 21 percent higher than rest of the year Australian Federal Court penalises another dodgy domain reseller Elon Musk unveils prototype high-speed LA transport tunnel Twitter user hacks 50 000 printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie Google kills off Allo to focus on Messages app. Sydney And Melbourne Now Have 5G mobile But You Can't Use It till 2020 The LG TV that rolls itself in and out of a box Now Google Assistant will warn you if your flight is going to be delayed
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Microsoft confirms yet another Windows 10 October Update bug Microsoft's market cap catches up with Apple Google makes Apple’s Siri talk to its Assistant Amazon will let Aussies back on its US website Apple in court over 30% app commission Window washing drone takes flight 70 Percent Chance Elon Musk Is Moving to Mars What is Google Fi and How does it work? Windows 7 retirement timeline countdown The new WPA3 Wi-Fi security protocols will be strengthened A new phone-like device from Microsoft Big Mouth Billy Bass that works with Amazon Alexa
Amazon Web Services reveals EC2 instances based on AMD chips Telstra fault takes down Eftpos and ATMs Telstra will let customers put consumer electronics on their mobile bills Western Digital unveils 'world's first' 15TB archive hard drive Drone Racing World Championships: Race to be crowned top pilot What You Need To Know About eSims Google and Disney Partner to Bring Storybooks to Life HBO’s has partnered with Amazon's Alexa and has and animated children’s show Called Esme and Roy
Apple refreshes Macs iPad Pros and raises prices Socks walk all over t-shirts as giveaways say marketers Royole's bendy-screen FlexPai phone unveiled in China Australia Post to run more robot trials What you need to know about 10 All Access streaming This Halloween’s Google Doodle is its first multiplayer game Elli•Q …. A Robot and A Companion for the Elderly
Apple may unveil new Macs iPads later this month Google to charge Android partners up to US$40 per device for apps: report Linus Torvalds returns to head Linux coding community Apple Reportedly has Blocked Police iPhone Hacking Tool And Nobody Knows How Mozilla Firefox Teams up with ProtonVPN Amazon Talking about Smart Smoke Alarm’s Google Reportedly Vows Pixel 3 Camera Will Work Properly For Everyone Soon Google's Pixel Stand Is A Smarter Breed Of Wireless Charger Windows 10 October 2018 Update continues to frustrate users with another bug
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65 Wikileaks spills AWS Sydney data centre locations Telstra defends giving executives millions in bonuses Apple will let users see and delete data it has collected Rio Tinto runs 34 robot trains a day A Report Finds Need for IoT Security in Connected Homes 2400 sensors and machine learning models are monitoring The Sydney Harbour Bridge GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz
Microsoft fixes Window 10 file deletion issue Google+ killed off after user data exposed Weak passwords banned in California from 2020 NBN Co says fibre-to-the-curb build is more complex that it hoped What is Facebook Portal and how does it work? Google Home Hub : The new hub for your smart home Gold Silver and Bronze mobile numbers
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Australia’s second modernized Apple store opening in Robina on September 29th Microsoft releases Office 2019 for Windows and Mac Microsoft Ignite 2018 so far NBN Co doubles transit capacity in upgrade AWS cuts Australian data transfer costs Sir Charles Kao: Fibre optics genius passes away China blocks Twitch game-streaming service PlayStation backs down in Fortnite cross-play row Facebook’s newest VR headset Oculus Quest ships in the spring for $399 US Google to allow Chrome users to disable controversial login feature
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Trend Micro tools removed from Mac App Store over “data exfiltration” claims Apple to provide police with online tool to request data Everything Apple Announced Today When You Can Get All The Stuff Apple Just Announced Driverless taxi arrives in Australia for closed-track tests Foxtel GO is back 'better than ever before' in HD live and on-demand Testers for Microsoft are testing a ‘warning label’ for Windows 10 users to not to install the Chrome or Firefox browsers. New Cortana flaws could let hackers access locked systems Qualcomm finally has a new chip for the next generation of Android smartwatches Apple discontinues iPhone X and the last iPhones with headphone jacks
Is Microsoft killing off Windows 7 already? Thousands of Magento e-commerce sites hit by malware Amazon joins Apple in US$1 trillion club Elon Musk in new rant at Thai cave rescuer The waterslide with virtual reality Woolworths trials 'scan and go' smartphone shopping Amazon and Microsoft bring Alexa and Cortana to each other's devices Instagram is Developing A Dedicated Shopping App Called IG Shopping Firefox to auto-block ad trackers
Microsoft dates Windows 8.1's demise Apple says no data compromised after Aussie teen hack Xiaomi's Poco F1 phone threatens a price war Gold Coast plans to open up expanded fibre network to telcos Microsoft clamps down on sick 'Momo suicide game' in 'Minecraft' ACCC whacks Trivago over misleading price listings Internet melts down over Liberal leadership crisis in Canberra Google-to-debut-display-equipped-AI-speaker-before-holidays huawei-zte-banned-from-australian-5g-networks https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/backup-all-of-your-smartphone%E2%80%99s-data-with-this-dollar20-solution/ar-BBMhNg4
Court orders Telstra to shelve 'Unlimited' ads for three years ACMA warns of fake Optus emails asking for credit card information Fair Trading sharpens teeth for consumer-reseller disputes Fortnite released on Android coming to Samsung devices first Foxtel taking the fight to free-to-air with plans for 4K footy Turnbull unveils a new bill to plant viruses on computer devices New Google One Storage Cloud is coming soon for everyone Apple reportedly held secret meeting with app devs to push a new subscription model for apps
Apple's expensive iPhones pay off big time Telstra retains Australia's fastest telco crown Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have all adopted biometrics API Outlook rolls out 'Dark Mode' inverted colour scheme System Administrator Appreciation Day so give yours whatever they ask for huawei is the worlds second largest smartphone maker 2018 facebook instagram to introduce time limits an open letter to microsoft about poor windows 10 update experiences parents paying fortnite tutors for kids
how to unlock windows 10 google stopped phishing and ditched passwords with this 20 device Steve Jobs was shocked by how successful the App Store was amazon alexa echo spatial perception apple iphone 2018 intel cellular modems qualcomm legal dispute Google Translate warns of apocalypse in bizarre 'end times' message The one move that made Fortnite creator a billionaire Australia's first computer moves into Melbourne museum Microsoft Google Twitter and Facebook to offer data transfer service
http://www.fixitfastelectronics.com.au/ Phone numbers lost in NBN migrations https://www.youtube.com/user/fixitfast74/videos Google cops A$6.8 billion fine from EU over Android practices Microsoft takes fight to Slack with free version of Teams 3D-printed gun blueprints given go-ahead by US government Amazon's Jeff Bezos beats Bill Gates in new rich list NBN Co asks $11k per premises in area switch upgrade
Facebook unveils 'Here Together' campaign in Australia Microsoft unveils 10-inch Surface Go PayPal told customer her death breached its rules Twitter 'shuts down millions of fake accounts' Xiaomi's trading debut in Hong Kong AirPlay 2 arrives at last on Sonos here's 5 things now possible YouTube gives creators a way to flag stolen videos Dark Web Market is selling access to a major airport's security systems Telstra Switches On New Network Technology to Cope With The Growing Demand for Live Sports. CASEFILE - SILK ROAD PODCAST http://casefilepodcast.com/case-76-silk-road-part-1/
3 million .au domains transition to Afilias Australia from Neustar Apple rebuilds iPhone mapping app keeps TomTom as data provider Gmail messages 'read by human third parties' Foxtel turns to data to keep its customers secret settings hidden in your android phone will make it feel twice as fast
Thousands of Android devices hit with ad-clicking bot malware ACMA rules that telcos must roll back customer internet if there are NBN delays https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/ The man who was fired by a machine Internet is losing its memory: Cerf NBN Co's top user downloads 23.6TB a month IoT-enabled cows Aussie startup develops implantable monitor. Smart locks lights and speakers are the latest weapons of domestic abuse
The Google Podcast App has arrived Optus offers free subscription to sport service after World Cup streaming fail Apple fined $9 million as Federal Court finds repairs policy breached Australian Consumer Law Amazon brings Prime to Australia after geoblocking furore Optus is finally killing its dial-up internet in Australia Domain name businesses ordered to pay $2 million for "misleading and deceptive" correspondence YouTube Premium
Kogan's latest business venture is smart home devices Microsoft is giving Office 365 a facelift Apple to block tool used by law-enforcement to crack iPhones Microsoft ends forum support for Windows 7 and 8.1 End of an era: Yahoo Messenger is being shut down next month Instagram May Soon Allow Hour-Long Video Uploads Addicted’ girl, 9, wets herself instead of taking break from playing Fortnite
Amazon to block Australian shoppers from its US website Microsoft is now more valuable than Google Virgin Mobile stores will be gone in a month Microsoft brags as Edge beats Chrome in battery life in Microsoft video FBI warns "hundreds of thousands" of routers hacked by Russians Google Chrome 68 introduces HTTPS as the new security must-have School shooting game Active Shooter pulled by Steam Blue Note audio attack corrupts hard drives KODI CRACKDOWN
Doctor Who on Twitch Court favours Optus rules Telstra's "unlimited" ads were misleading What to expect at Apple's WWDC 2018 conference Outage strikes Telstra 3G and 4G mobile services Australians lost hundreds of millions to online phone scammers in 2017 Independent podcasters chip in to support Salvos’ Red Shield Day Microsoft stops rollout of Windows 10 update for devices with select Intel Toshiba SSDs Optus will progressively close Virgin Mobile
Google is introducing a new storage service for paid users called Google One 'Laurel' or 'Yanny'? People can't decide Australian Space Agency to launch on 1 July NSW to begin state wide digital licence rollout huge new facebook data leak exposed intimate details of 3m users twitter will start hiding tweets that detract from the conversation rollout of windows 10 april update halted for devices with intel and toshiba ssds security robot beaten up bbq sauce
Microsoft offers better margins to lure Apple Google devs firefox moves browsers into the post password future with webauthn ticketmaster hopes to speed up event access by scanning your face abbott addresses life threatening flaw in a half million pacemakers twitter says glitch exposed substantial number of users passwords in plain text ios will soon disable usb connection if left locked for a week
Telstra Vodafone follow Optus by offering up unlimited data smartphone plans Telstra launches mobile repeater to improve coverage five biggest things coming in the latest Windows 10 update Xiaomi launches $10bn Hong Kong stock market listing facebook adds dating app launches oculus go google wunderkind is building a secret social gaming startup warranty void if removed stickers illegal xmarks to close
Apple recalls certain MacBook Pro models Google gun emoji becomes water pistol Spotify tests filter to block swearing in songs Microsoft confirms Spring Creators Update crash bug Melbourne IT to rebrand as Arq Group another highly critical flaw in drupal but no details again youtube remix google play music/ video game loot boxes are now considered criminal gambling in belgium/ amazon will now deliver packages to the trunk of your car telstra fined $10 million after customers charged for ringtones
JB Hi-Fi Officeworks and Myer to resell Amazon's Echo Spot The printer that HP launched into space is up and running Donkey Kong champion loses title for 'using emulator'
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