LG’s Optimus Black device will make it’s debut in Australia in June the company says, with the device to go on sale through all three major carriers. Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January this year, the Optimus Black, the latest phone in LG’s “Optimus” series (their dual-core Optimus arrived last month)  runs Google’s Android operating system and has been billed as one of the thinnest mobiles in the world. It’s not, [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

Google has this morning confirmed their next-generation mobile payment system — dubbed “Google Wallet” won’t be available in Australia when it launches in the United States later this year. “Google Wallet is currently in a field test in the U.S. only,” a spokesperson from Google Australia said. “We don’t have specific dates to announce today but will keep you posted as we make progress.” The announcement, made overnight at an event at the search giant’s [...]

At Google’s annual developer conference overnight the company announced as expected the first of the multitude of upcoming devices to run their first cloud-based operating system, dubbed Chrome OS, but confirmed it won’t be available in Australia at launch. Update: Samsung and Acer say they’ll launch their Chromebooks in Australia before the end of the year, while a Google spokesperson said: Chromebooks for businesses and schools will be available in US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, [...]

Google’s annual developer conference is underway in the San Francisco, US today, with the search giant unveiling a number of new features for their Android mobile operating system. As expected, the company unveiled their new music streaming service, which allows users to upload up to 20,000 songs to “the cloud” — or Google’s servers — and stream them anywhere, anytime over the internet onto most Android phones and desktop computers. Adobe’s Flash plugin is required [...]

Australian Nexus S owners have begun receiving the Android 2.3.4 update promised by Google just two weeks ago, which brings native video chat to Google’s Android operating system. The Nexus S, available exclusively through Vodafone Australia locally, is Google’s latest “developer” phone designed in partnership with Samsung because it runs a “vanilla” — or clean — edition of Android, allowing users to experience the operating system the way Google designed it to be. There’s no overlays, no tweaks by [...]

Google Australia has this afternoon released a Privacy Impact Assessment report (PIA) into their Street View service, following last year’s Wi-Fi location scandal. Street View is an overlay for Google Maps that allows users to browse a 360 degree view from the road of a particular location in most Australian metropolitan suburbs. The release today of the PIA report, which focuses on the impact Google’s controversial Street View service has on Australian residents’ privacy, has been released [...]

Google has announced overnight the immediate availability of the search giant’s Shopping search tool in Australia. The tool, which allows users to compare prices between Australian retailers who sign up for the service, went live last night, and can be used here. “It’s fair to say a growing number of Australians are turning to the web to shop,” the Program Manager for Google Shopping, Amy Gepfert, said in a post announcing the availability overnight. “That’s [...]

LG has this morning announced plans to bring the Optimus 2x to Australia for a RRP of $649. LG says it’s the world’s first “Mobile Phone to Use a Dual-core Processor” according to the Guinness World Records, and the device will be available running Android 2.2, with an upgrade to 2.3 to be announced shortly. The Optimus 2X features NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 mobile dual-core CPU as well as full 1080p video playback and a Micro HDMI port allowing [...]