HTC has today confirmed its HTC One device will arrive in Australian Optus, Telstra, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone stores from April 23, with pre-orders to commence from tomorrow.

Google quietly launched its Chromebook range in Australia last week. This week, we’ve been taking the more expensive Samsung Chromebook through its paces.

Australian airline Virgin Australia has begun informing customers about a raft of forthcoming changes that will impact its booking and check-in management systems from January 12, as the company moves onto the Sabre platform.

Both Telstra and Optus reported healthy speeds on their next-generation 4G/LTE networks on New Years Eve, in arguably one of the first major tests for the high-speed networks.

As the countdown to 2013 begins, Australians will be able to watch the Sydney fireworks from anywhere online thanks to a partnership between Telstra and YouTube.

  Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora music streaming service, has announced a couple of “open town hall events” leading up to the local release of Pandora to Australia. Unlike current services like MOG, Spotify and even iTunes, Pandora uses your musical library to work out what kind of music you like. This involves an algorithm that compares songs to a huge database  of music “genome”, patterns that help identify style, influences and related artists and songs. It has been almost available in [...]

The Optus network is rolling out 4G in a game of catchup with Telstra and its wildly deployed Next G 4g network. Optus is selling 2 modems, a USB and a Wifi varient. This is a look at the Wifi modem. Hardware I have been a fan of Huawei for years and this new model does not disappoint  The E589 is larger than the 3g modems that Huawei sells via Optus and Vodafone. It still uses [...]

First of all, an apology for the lack of posts from me. Work, health and family issues have prevented me from writing, however things are improving on all fronts so expect more posts from yours truly! EVE Online has a strong presence in Australia, and many of the players trekked to Sydney’s Rydges World Square for the first of (hopefully) many Australian Eve events. One of the issues with Eve is that Iceland (where CCP, the company that [...]

Apple has revised the shipping dates for Australian customers awaiting the 4G-capable version of the iPad mini, confirming the first of the devices should begin arriving at homes from November 26.

in brief Telstra has confirmed it will launch the 4G iteration of Samsung’s Galaxy SIII on October 9, with the device already available through its online store.