It’s shaping up to be a big week over at iiNet HQ, with the company yesterday announcing the new BoB Lite and today revealing plans to launch their own mobile phone service. While the company won’t be providing mobile phones for customers, it’s now selling post-paid plans contract-free for $10, $20 and $40 all of which include unlimited use of many popular social networking sites including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. Customers will be expected [...]

Employees at  Yahoo!7 – the Australian partnership between Yahoo and Channel Seven — won’t be affected by any layoffs, the company has confirmed. Earlier today Yahoo confirmed reports that a number of staff had been laid off across the company worldwide as the company struggles to cope against a dwindling user base, failed acquisitions and the move out of providing their own search service. In a statement today the company said the changes will result in [...]

Despite the tough economic conditions Australian retailers are facing at the moment, e-commerce site eStore has signalled its intentions to acquire local firms to expand over the next year. With many traditional retailers struggling to boost sales this Christmas season, it’s rare to hear of a small e-retail startup attempting to boost local market share by acquiring firms, but eStore has revealed that’s exactly what they’re planning to do next year with the hopes of [...]

Internet service provider iiNet has today announced the BoB Lite, a lightweight and cheaper version of their BoB phone and Internet solution. The first device to come out of iiNet’s new iiNet Labs department, the BoB Lite is thinner, lighter, more sleek and more compact than its predecessor and provides an all-in-one device for new iiNet customers, acting as a wireless modem and router, VOIP phone and USB device charger. The BoB Lite also features [...]

While it’s supposed to be the season for giving and celebration, Optus has become the latest carrier to experience a network outage this time in Sydney. Optus customers using the telco’s 3G network last night found themselves unable to send text messages, make calls or use data packages as a transmission fault wrecked havoc across Sydney CBD and “surrounding areas” coverage. “A transmission fault was identified on our mobile network at approx. 5.30pm this evening [...]

Reports today suggest Telstra is looking into moving many of its customers onto Microsoft’s Windows Live service as part of a proposal for the future. As part of its plan to “evolve” the company’s offering to customers in the future, Telstra is understood to be considering moving customers onto a cloud-based offering such as Microsoft’s Hotmail, which would see customers able to use their BigPond accounts for most Windows Live services including SkyDrive for files, [...]

Today we’re proud to announce the newest site to join the iTech Report network, iTech Reviews. The site, which you can visit here, went live earlier today and will aggregate all the reviews from across our sites including iTech Report and iGame Report. You can quickly and easily search products we’ve reviewed, check out our rating and review and find additional information about the products. And shortly you too will be able to contribute to [...]