Foxtel saves Hills Limited’s Adelaide factory Foxtel has renewed its agreement for Hills Limited to provide satellite dishes, cables and connectors. While Hills imports the cables and connectors, satellite dishes are manufactured at its Adelaide factory. The existing contract lasted … Read More
Final Office for Android Android device users can now access the final release of Microsoft’s Office productivity suite, with Word, Excel and PowerPoint made available for download. Kirk Koenigsbauer, who heads up Microsoft’s Office client, applications and services team said … Read More
Kogan releases 4G smartphone for $299 Kogan has revealed its latest 4G smartphone, Agora 4G Pro, available for $299. The device is powered with a 1.5 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor, 2GB RAM and runs on Android 5 Lollipop. … Read More
Microsoft to sell $20,000 Surface Microsoft will sell An 84-inch screen version of its new, wall-mounted video-conferencing and digital whiteboard device for US$20,000, making it the most expensive product in its hardware line-up. A smaller 55-inch version will sell for … Read More
Xero reaches 200,000 users in Australia The user-count is up from 158,000 Australian users in September last year. Xero now counts more than 500,000 users worldwide. By contrast, MYOB reported it had more over 116,000 cloud subscribers by the end … Read More
Warning: Text message bug crashing iPhones around the world Today news is flying around regardingan iOS bug that causes the Messages app to crash and iPhones to reboot when a certain string of text is received. There isn’t an … Read More
Hockey confirms Google, Netflix taxes The federal government has revealed plans to expand the goods and services tax to digital products such as those provided by Netflix and Google under proposed legislation to feature in tomorrow’s budget. The Coalition wants … Read More
Microsoft Surface 3 unleashed in Australia The device starts at $699 for 64GB of storage and 2GB of RAM, with the price climbing to $839 for 128GB storage and 4GB RAM. Accessories such as keyboard and pen are sold separately. … Read More
The next app you download could be for Microsoft Office Microsoft is adding new services and APIs to make it easier for developers to build add-ins that work with Office, from add-ins for software like Excel and Outlook to mining … Read More
ATO asks eBay for help catching tax cheats The Australian Tax Office has enlisted the help of eBay in its hunt to catch tax cheats, commencing a data matching program with a number of online market operators. eBay will be … Read More