Further to the previous announced details, EB announced the participants of their expo, which will be held at the Gold Coast on the 15-16th of October.

Sony has this afternoon announced that their Playstation Network — the subject of much scrutiny over the past month or so after hackers broke into the service and stole million’s of users personal information — will be back up and running completely by the end of this week. While the network has been operating for a couple of weeks in Australia, after the attacks occurred near the end of April, some functionality, such as the PlayStation Store, [...]

Two months after Google and financial services giant MYOB announced a new campaign to bring Aussie businesses online with a website and free domain name, they’ve revealed over 12,000 Australian businesses have signed up. The campaign, called “Getting Aussie Business Online” was announced at the beginning of March and takes advantage of both Google and MYOB’s services — Google provides $75 worth of advertising through their AdWords program, while Myob provides the hosting infrastructure and [...]

The Australian Government has this morning released the National Digital Economy strategy, with Senator Stephen Conroy unveiling the report during his introductory speech at the CeBIT conference in Sydney. Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, unveiled the strategy calling it an “exciting vision” that the Government has to grow the use of technology in the Australian economy. “The Gillard has a vision that is unreservedly bold,” he said. “By 2020, Australia will be one of [...]

The Australian Media and Communications Authority (ACMA) last night released a new report into the state of application marketplaces in Australia, suggesting a number of regulatory changes may need to be made in the not to distant future. The “Emerging business models in the digital economy—The mobile applications market“ report, released as part of the organisations upcoming review of convergence in the Australian technology industry, suggests that the challenges faced with the application market craze have [...]

Both here on iTechrport.com.au and Delimiter.com.au there is much gnashing of teeth about Google releasing innovative products and services and excluding Australia from them. However, Amazon has been rapidly expanding its consumer services and blocking the Antipodes from accessing them. So what services are there? Amazon MP3 store Amazon Video streaming Amazon Android App Store Amazon Cloud music service (which is tied into their music store) Amazon Prime (free delivery and access to streaming content) [...]

Australians have been urged to stay safe online once again as the Government kicks off Cyber Security Awareness week activities. Part of the Government’s “Stay Safe online” initiative, the week aims to raise awareness of the increasingly aggressive online attacks and ways in which Australians can stay safe while using the Internet. There’s more than 530 commercial partners for the week including many of the top Australian consumer-focused organisations such as Telstra and the National [...]

Foxtel today issued a statement revealing that internet usage through their IPTV service for Xbox customers will no longer count towards Telstra customers data quota. In addition, the pay subscription service also revealed that six BigPond TV channels, including the AFL and NRL channels, V8 Supercars Australia, TVN and BigPond Sport TV will become available for owners of Microsoft’s X-box gaming console who subscribe to Foxtel’s X-Box package from today. Subscribers will now be able to watch the existing [...]

Fairfax has revealed they’ll be announcing brand new apps for Apple’s iPad tablet device in a press conference later today, at long last launching competitors to News Ltd.’s range of apps for their papers. Update: The apps are now live. Click here for The Age, and here for the Sydney Morning Herald. Following the event, the Fairfax has confirmed the below details, and says Android apps are coming soon. Check back here tomorrow (Tuesday, 30th [...]

World of Tanks is a Free to Play MMOG from Wargamers.net using Aussie developer Bigworld Technology’s MMOG engine. The game is about tanks, lots of them. Nothing else. When you start the game, you find yourself in the “Garage”, a place to buy, upgrade, repair and outfit your tank. You start with one tank from each of the currently available countries (USSR, Germany and USA). By rights, this is really a Freemium game, where you [...]