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 [...]

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 [...]

Apple has reportedly invited at least one Australian journalist to the opening keynote of their upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in the United States. Update: The tweet appears to have been removed from Twitter. Tickets to the event went on sale for developers earlier in the year and sold out within hours, with invites promising to show “a preview of the future of iOS and Mac OS X”. Australian technology journalist Charlie Brown tweeted earlier [...]

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 [...]

Optus has confirmed they’ll also be implementing a number of new tools to assist in the reduction of the phenomenon known as ‘bill shock’ within months, following yesterday’s announcement from Telstra that excess mobile data will be throttled rather than charged. A spokesperson from the telco told iTech Report that Optus is investigating a number of new ways they can assist customers avoid ‘bill shock’ — or recieving exorbitantly high bills because they may have [...]

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has today hit back at claims that the Tasmanian rollout of the National Broadband Network is falling behind schedule. The claims surfaced when Tasmanian Senator Guy Barnett released a statement to the media suggesting that the nation’s biggest telecommunications project in years was falling behind schedule in Tasmania, the first major location of the rollout of the network and that it may now take up to 7 years to complete as opposed [...]

Today the Motorola XOOM officially became available in Australia through Telstra. The following review has been posted on our sister site, iTech Reviews, and can be read in full here. Motorola’s XOOM device was labelled the iPad-killer at the world’s biggest consumer electronic show in January this year. A lot’s changed since then, with a swathe of tablet devices now swamping the market, but the XOOM is finally available in Australia. It’s exclusive to Telstra for [...]

Group discount sites Scoopon and CatchOfTheDay have today announced they’ve undertaken capital financing from a number of high profile investors including James Packer’s Consolidated Press Holding (CPH).

ZeroMail, an Australian startup which aims to de-clutter user’s email inboxes, has launched a paid beta program offering a lifetime subscription for just $100. ZeroMail was formed last year, with the aim of allowing users to focus on the important emails and filter out the less important ones, sich as newsletters and group notifications. It hooks into already existing email accounts through providers such as Gmail, with the ultimate goal of making “email fun again.” While the [...]