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Android Phones ‘At Risk’: Report

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Android-powered smartphones may be at risk from a “undetectable” Qualcomm software flaw that has left users’ text messages and call histories open to hackers, according to Web reports. The reports say…

Apple Planning ‘Radical’ iPhone

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Apple’s next new model of its iPhone range – expected to be dubbed the iPhone 7 – is being tipped in some quarters to make its debut in September, according…

Goodbye, Smartphones? Yanks Turning Back To Flip-Phones

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As sales of smartphones including the Apple iPhone line begin to languish, US reports suggest major sections of the phone-buying public are turning back to so-called “flip phones” – ie,…

Telstra To Play With EPL, Too

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Optus may have wrapped up major rights to the English Premier League soccer coverage – though receiving a caning from sections of the press over its subscription pricing – but…

ASX Plans Crackdown On Listings By Low-Revenue Tech Start-Ups

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The Australian Securities Exchange is looking to tighten its admission rules in a move that could see technology start-ups with limited revenue barred from listing on the exchange. In the past two…

Solar Energy Battery Market Gets Another New Player

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The push to get Australian home owners with solar panels to install household batteries capable of storing solar energy for use round the clock appears to be hotting up. On…

Tosh Names New CEO: PCs Up For Grabs

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Toshiba has named a new chief executive, follows last year’s revelations of a $1.3 billion accounting scandal at the Japanese multinational conglomerate. Sixty-year-old Satoshi Tsunakawa, pictured, currently an executive vice…

Cook To Meet China Bosses

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Apple CEO Tim Cook will visit Beijing later this month to meet high-level government officials, at a time when the iPhone maker is facing setbacks in its most important overseas…

Hackett Backs Greens Call For Tax Credits On House Batteries

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Redflow chairman Simon Hackett, pictured, has – as you might expect – been quick to seize on a statement by the Greens calling for Australians to receive a tax credit…

Many Jobs To Go As Fairfax Ends SMH, Age Print Dailies

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Hundreds more Fairfax journalists and other workers appear to be facing the sack after the publishing group said it will end publication of the weekday print editions of The Sydney…