APPLE users have claimed the latest version of the iPhone operating system has played havoc with the battery in their device. On the tech giant’s support firm, users have claimed the battery indicator hits 30 per cent before slumping to zero and shutting down the phone. The disgruntled Apple lovers claim they were clobbered after…
Australia’s cricketers will soon get a much-needed tech-led competitive advantage after Cricket Australia signed a deal with Microsoft to become the first cricketing nation to use its new team and player performance platform to assess everything from form and fitness to strategy and team selection. The deal will be sealed on Tuesday as Microsoft’s cricket-loving…
Australian businesses are drowning in a deluge of cyber security data, causing genuine threats to get lost in a sea of false positives, a top executive at multibillion-dollar business intelligence, analytics and data management firm SAS has warned. In Melbourne last week to visit Australian clients, SAS cyber security vice-president Stewart Bradley said his company…
PayPal users can now send money to friends and family using just their voice, after the payment service announced it was to integrate into Apple’s Siri. Siri is the voice-based virtual assistant embedded into the iPhone, and can be used to set reminders, answer questions and help with tasks. From Thursday, PayPal said users running…
When Apple unveiled its new MacBook Pro laptops at a media event last month, Adam Leventhal, a software engineer, was eager to learn about them. Yet by the time he finished watching a live stream of the event, Leventhal, who has owned only Mac computers for the last 30 years, was turned off. “With this…
Apple releases Portrait mode for iPhone 7 Plus that gives shallow depth of field feature like a DSLR FORGET about grabbing that clunky DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera. Your iPhone 7 Plus today has just become a much better camera. Apple has finally launched the Portrait feature that was the highlight of the iPhone 7…
EMERGING technology that promises to dramatically increase internet speeds over copper wires has been successfully trialled in the lab by the National Broadband Network (NBN), the company said. NBN co has concluded its trials of high-bandwidth technology known as XG.FAST which commenced last month, claiming to have achieved “lightning fast” peak aggregate speed of 8Gbps…
I’m sure you’re aware there are hackers and viruses out there looking to wreak havoc and steal your hard-earned money, sensitive data and personal identity. But please don’t let this scare you away from using computers and technology. Arming yourself with some knowledge and putting some proactive and defensive tools in place can go a…
The company in charge of rolling out the national broadband network says it is well on track towards its long term goals after adding about 338,000 new homes and businesses to the system in the September quarter. Most of the growth came on the back of a lift in the number of Fibre-to-the-Node (FTTN) connections.…
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