Vodafone Hutchison Australia has today confirmed they’ll be implementing support for 4G LTE technology later this year, following moves by rival Telstra to create their own 4G network. Vodafone today announced that the telco will be undertaking an overhaul of their entire Australian network with partner Huawei, and will be adding support for the fourth-generation Long Term Evolution Technology (LTE), with plans to switch on the network “later this year”. It comes as the company [...]

To celebrate the new-look iTech Report, thanks to Motorola we’re giving away a MOTOROKR Bluetooth In-Car speakerphone and digital FM transmitter to one lucky reader. The device, which sits in the car’s sun-visor and tunes into your FM radio to listen to phone calls from your mobile phone, normally sells for $129.99 but Motorola has kindly given us one to give away. It works with most phones with Bluetooth support, from manufacturers including LG, Samsung, Nokia, [...]

Telstra is reportedly investigating the possibility of launching their own app store for televisions, as part of a larger plan to grow their offerings for connected devices. The Australian today reports the telco is thinking of ways to offer more services to customers using the company’s BigPond internet service, with an app store one of the many possibilities currently being investigated. “We are looking at how we can best deliver all the content the consumer [...]

With the amount of coupon discount sites in Australia now well over 20, US giant Groupon now in the local market and revenue in the deal industry in Australia expected to be more than $242 million this year, it’s becoming harder and harder to follow each and every site for discounts each day. And so begins the rise of a number of new startups hoping to combat the problem, by offering numerous different ways to [...]

The Australian development team behind the popular Fruit Ninja iPhone game have revealed they’ll soon start sponsoring an orchard in the United States. In a post on their official website, Brisbane-based Halfbrick Studios have revealed they’ve now sold more than 6 million copies of their most successful game to date, Fruit Ninja, in just ten months on Apple’s iPhone and iPad platform. The company noted around 150 billion pieces of fruit have now been sliced, which Halfbrick’s Chief [...]

New research from online analytics firm Comscore suggests Australians spend one in five minutes online checking their status on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The State of the Internet in Australia report for 2010 was released on Friday and shows Aussies spent almost 22% of their time online checking social sites, up from 17% at the same time in the previous year. “2010 was dynamic year for the digital media industry in [...]

Google has revealed Australian support for the Chrome Web Store isn’t far away, with developer support for localisations added on Friday. The Chrome Web Store launched to much fanfare late last year, allowing those who use Google’s web browser, Chrome, to buy and install applications based on web technologies. However, until Friday developers were unable to add support for other countries, with the US the only officially supported nation. In a post on the Chromium [...]

Today we’re unveiling the new-look iTech Report, which will amongst other things soon add support for Microsoft’s upcoming Internet Explorer 9. Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been working on the new look which has now been rolled out — based off the News WordPress theme — because our previous style didn’t support the forthcoming Internet Explorer 9 and was beginning to look quite cluttered. We’re still working on a number of features and tweaks, [...]

iiNet has today announced a partnership with Microsoft that will see the telco launch a number of new hosting plans. The partnership will see Microsoft supply iiNet with their Windows Server operating system for a discounted price, which customers can then choose to install when they purchase a virtual private server (VPS) hosting plan. “Whether it’s used for developing complex websites or a new mobile application, a VPS will provide developers with a dedicated platform [...]

The first round of iiNet’s competition to find Australia’s top geek is now almost complete, with videos released publicly on Wednesday before a final decision is made on who will progress to the next round on Friday. Contestants — of which there are now 20 following the completion of the public voting stage — were asked to design a “real-world” or “imaginative” application or gadget, and present the information with either a one-page summary or a video. [...]