Staff Writers – Page 362

Optus To ‘Fly’ NBN Satellites

Staff Writers February 3, 2014 No Comments

NBN Co’s two new satellites, due to launch into orbit in 2015, will deliver high speed Internet to 200,000 premises in remote Australia. Announced today, Optus satellite have signed five-year…

White Goods Boom Lift JB Hi-Fi, $1.9Bn Sales

Staff Writers February 3, 2014 No Comments

JB Hi-Fi sales up almost 7% to $1.94 billion the six months to December 31, as appliances demand booms. Last month, JB Hi-Fi sales lifted 7.4%, like-for-like rose almost 4%. …

Motorola ‘Mistake’ Ditched, Google Profits Soar

Staff Writers January 31, 2014 No Comments

The announcement comes a day after the tech giant announced it was selling Motorola smartphone business to Lenovo for a low price of US$2.91 bn. Net profits also bumped up…

Something Is Rotten In the State Of Apple

Staff Writers January 31, 2014 No Comments

Figures from ASIC, as reported in AFR today, show Apple Australia coined $6.1 billion in sales revenue last year – a 2% rise – but actually paid less tax than…

Myer Desired David Jones “Union”

Staff Writers January 31, 2014 No Comments

Myer approached rival David Jones (DJs) about a merger, it has been confirmed. The deal, first reported in AFR ‘Street Talk’ claimed Bernie Brookes department store Myer, approached high street…

Lenovo + Motorola: What It Means

Staff Writers January 30, 2014 No Comments

As announced today, Lenovo is to buy MOTOROLA for a cut price of $3 bn from Google. The $2.9 bn sale price is just a fraction of what Google paid…

BREAKING NEWS: Lenovo Buys Motorola, Cut Price $2.9 Bn

Staff Writers January 30, 2014 No Comments

Google CEO Larry Page confirms Lenovo will acquire the Motorola Mobility smartphone unit for about $2.91 billion. The deal comes just 19 months after Google purchased struggling Motorola for $12.4bn…

From Vodafail To Vodafast: 4G Hits 1 million

Staff Writers January 30, 2014 No Comments

But now Vodafone is witnessing 30,000 additions to its fledging 4G network per week. Vodafone says customers are returning to its network in droves, with more than one million 4G…

Revolutionary Fuji X1 “World’s Fastest AF speed”

Staff Writers January 29, 2014 No Comments

Thanks to Fujifilm’s EXR Processor II and new X-Trans CMOS II sensor, the new X-T1 has the world’s fastest AF of just 0.08 seconds and a super-fast 0.5 second start-up…

Quad-Core + HD: ASUS Pad 8 inch $329

Staff Writers January 29, 2014 No Comments

The new Asus 8 inch In-Plane Switching IPS LED-backlit display with HD (1280 x 800) resolution, powerful 1.6GHz quad-core processor, 5MP rear with 720p HD video recording 1.2MP front. Click to…