FOXTEL Guide for your smartphone now allows you to change channels.
I’ve always said how much I love the FOXTEL app for iPhone and iPad, well, it just got a whole...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Nov 3, 2011 | Tech
I’ve always said how much I love the FOXTEL app for iPhone and iPad, well, it just got a whole...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Nov 3, 2011 | Tech
At CES this year, I managed to get some hands on time with a prototype screen device from Sony dubbed the Headman. It was heavy, bulky, and you had to hold it up against your face, but the image was amazing. Last night, I got...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Nov 3, 2011 | Tech
I’ve got the FIRST LOOK at Microsoft’s new XBox Wireless Speed wheel, plus I’ve...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Nov 3, 2011 | Tech
Crime doesn’t pay may be a worthwhile motto, but it can certainly be fun in a videogame....
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Nov 2, 2011 | Tech
Any true lover of motoring and racing games will know that driving a performance car with your...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Nov 2, 2011 | Tech
The US has had a movie streaming subscription service for years through Netflix, it’s only just starting to take off Down Under thanks to Quickflix’s partnership with Sony. But competition is set to grow, with...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Nov 2, 2011 | Tech
It’s been a few weeks since Apple launched the iPhone 4S, and the internet is awash with tales of woe as the new handsets battery drains at an alarmingly fast rate? Has it been happening to you? With Apple remaining silent...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Nov 2, 2011 | Tech
If you fancy yourself as a muso, playing air guitar or air drums – you might just enjoy the...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Nov 2, 2011 | Tech
Apple have this morning released Garage Band for iPhone and iPod touch users. The software which...
Read MorePosted by Damian Francis | Nov 1, 2011 | Tech
Out and about types that love boasting to their mates about what they did on the weekend need the ContourROAM . Not only will it capture your exploits, you can shed that tag of being the office liar. Weekend warriors that hide...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 31, 2011 | Tech
If there’s a segment of the gaming market that is fuelled by testosterone and machismo, it’s first person shooters. Make the FPS a quasi-realistic modern day shooter like Battlefield 3, and you’ve got yourself...
Read MorePosted by Damian Francis | Oct 31, 2011 | Tech
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn will be hitting the small screen before arriving on the big screen thanks to the Gameloft mobile game. Ausdroid has announced that the Tintin mobile game will be arriving on...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 28, 2011 | Tech
Porsche are no strangers to the mobile phone game. But up until now, every Porsche handset has been all about style over substance, with design covering over unusable handsets with crappy UIs and slow processors. That should all...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 28, 2011 | Tech
If you’re like me and are using Google Apps for your mail, docs and calendar –...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 27, 2011 | Tech
It was eight whole months ago that Nokia announced it would be partnering exclusively with Microsoft to launch Windows Phone 7 handsets. Overnight, the Finnish giant finally showed off its first two handsets running the mobile...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 26, 2011 | Tech
I talk with Austin Bryan from Optus about their Optus METV with Fetch set top box and on demand...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 26, 2011 | Tech
Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect camera launched almost a year ago with the promise of a UI revolution. But in Australia, that promise was limited by the lack of voice control functionality. Today, Microsoft announced that...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 26, 2011 | Tech
Photographers out there will agree that having a tripod with you is essential for getting great shots, especially at night. The Tiltpod from ThinkGeek is thin enough to slide into your pocket, giving you a solid basis for stable...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 25, 2011 | Tech
The Japanese may have been using their mobile phones to pay for stuff for years using NFC technology, but today the Commonwealth Bank announced that it would begin dragging Australia into the 21st century by launching Kaching, a...
Read MorePosted by Damian Francis | Oct 25, 2011 | Tech
Anyone who knows style knows Bang & Olufsen. It’s the Dolce&Gabanna of the consumer technology world. And like Dolce&Gabanna has D&G, Bang & Olufsen is about to launch a more casual brand. How casual can a...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 25, 2011 | Tech
Hate the idea of locking yourself into the Apple ecosystem, but really like the look of the watch-like iPod Nano? Motorola has come to your rescue with the Motoactv, an Android powered watch device to track your fitness...
Read MorePosted by Damian Francis | Oct 24, 2011 | Tech
It’s the 10th birthday of the amazing Apple iPod. After 10 years you can still buy it, but sadly, it’s on life support. The iPod Classic is still retailing for $279 with an amazing 160GB hard drive. That’s...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 22, 2011 | Tech
If you’ve ever looked across the Pacific with envy at the US and its Netflix service, which offers unlimited movie rentals for a small monthly subscription, you might want to get a PS3. Sony has announced that later this...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 21, 2011 | Tech
Your man cave needs upgrading. You know it… We know it… And now you can do it at a fraction of the cost, because online auction house Grays Online is having a huge sale on high-end home theatre equipment. Included in...
Read MorePosted by Damian Francis | Oct 21, 2011 | Tech
You don’t need to be a gamer to appreciate the intricate story and 1940s awesome of LA Noire – you just need to own a PC, PS3 or Xbox 360. And let’s face it, most of you do. Rockstar’s latest winner, LA Noire, is about to...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 20, 2011 | Tech
Long before Nathan Drake began searching for long lost archaeological artefacts in the Uncharted...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 20, 2011 | Tech
It’s funny to think that it was just six years ago that the Motorola RAZR was considered the pinnacle of mobile phone engineering. Now, Moto plans to bring back the iconic brand as an Android smartphone. The move makes...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 19, 2011 | Tech
With the rise of mobile gaming made possible through the iOS and Android ecosystems (and WP7, if you’re that way inclined), dedicated portable gaming machines need to be pretty special to succeed. The PS Vita, successor to...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 19, 2011 | Tech
Well I’m no scientist, I just love cool things – and this is cool in both the awesome...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 18, 2011 | Tech
Professional photographers everywhere, pull out your credit cards and start buffing the magnetic stripe – Canon has announced its upgrading its EOS 1D with the new 1D X, launching March next year. Specs wise, this thing is...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 18, 2011 | Tech
If you’ve been holding off from queuing up outside an Apple store while you wonder exactly...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 17, 2011 | Tech
If you really like the idea of a tablet, but hate the idea of being locked into Apple’s ecosystem, yet don’t have the money for a Honeycomb powered Android tablet, local technology company Kogan has just announced a...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 14, 2011 | Tech
It happens every year. Apple releases a new phone, and software companies kick off their sales....
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 14, 2011 | Tech
Technology journalism can be a bit of a fish bowl at times. Despite last week’s media onslaught of coverage that the iPhone 4S was a disappointment, consumers have once again queued up and pre-ordered this year’s...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 13, 2011 | Tech
There are loads of great games to play on your iPhone or iPod touch, but AppBlaster turns your...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 13, 2011 | Tech
After weeks of paying lawyers exorbitant amounts of money to argue the validity of Apple’s patent case against Samsung’s shiny new Galaxy Tab 10.1, the Federal Court in Sydney today decided to rule against Samsung,...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 13, 2011 | Tech
Nokia are in a transitional phase – moving away from their old Symbian operating system to...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 13, 2011 | Tech
In an ideal world, we’d all have a dedicated man cave, and it would be laced with high-tech wonders from the future. But until that ideal world arrives, we have to make do as best we can. This new Bose Soundbar will go a...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 12, 2011 | Tech
My thoughts on the iPhone 4, Steve Jobs life and the future of Apple, the GarageLink automatic...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 12, 2011 | Tech
Ahh, the European Union. When you combine the moustaches of the French, the engineering of the Germans, and the atrocious sporting ability of the British (plus a few other countries), you end up with a government body who can...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 11, 2011 | Tech
It’s only taken the team at Facebook 18 months, but they’ve finally managed to launch a dedicated version of their iOS app for iPad. The good news is that it’s pretty sweet. The Facebook iPad app offers a full...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 11, 2011 | Tech
Certain segments of society like to shout to the media that video games are an evil pastime played by a youthful minority of corruptable minds. But as the most recent version of the Digital Australia report from Bond University...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 11, 2011 | Tech
Lego is the kind of toy that you never truly grow out of. Sure, you may take a break from it...
Read MorePosted by Damian Francis | Oct 10, 2011 | Tech
Becoming a Top Gear fiend just got a hell of a lot cheaper thanks to the release of the global BBC iPlayer. For just $89 a year you just got access to seasons 6-11. I’ll be honest, ever since Top Gear came to the Nine Network,...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 9, 2011 | Tech
We already know the price to buy an iPhone from Apple in Australia ($799/16GB, $899/32GB &...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 9, 2011 | Tech
Following on from last year’s overview of all the data plans available for iPhone,...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 8, 2011 | Tech
Aussies be prepared, the race is on to get you onto a new 12 or more likely 24 month contract if...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 8, 2011 | Tech
Do you use your mobile phone all the time? Even when you’re at your desk? Perhaps you should...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Long | Oct 8, 2011 | Tech
They say we’ll soon carry just one thing around, our phone, and it will be our wallet, our...
Read MorePosted by Nick Broughall | Oct 7, 2011 | Tech
Watching TV through the internet is great, so long as you can watch it on the big screen. Xbox 360 owners are about to get even more Internet TV awesomeness, with the launch of ABC iView, SBS On Demand and YouTube on the games...
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