Y2K Type GPS Bug Could Nobble Navigation System On April 6
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March 12, 2019
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Australian consumer electronics retailers could be facing questions from people who own old navigation systems after April 6th after a Y2K style... Read More
Apple PC Sales Slump After Price Hike
Apple retailers in particular the specialist IT channel claim that sales of Apple PC products including MacBooks have “slumped” in Australia following... Read More
Finally, Intel Faces Real Threat In PC Chip Market
Intel’s obsession with trying to break into the lucrative smartphone, which they have achieved via a modem deal with Apple could have... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Has Microsoft Paid To Keep Google Chrome Out Of Retailers?
Several PC brands have claimed that Microsoft has pressured retailers to not stock Google Chrome devices in Australia, the retailers claim that... Read More
Apple Finally Admits To Major Problems With iPhone X & MacBook Pro
Apple has finally admitted to a major display problem with their expensive new iPhone X and data problems 13-inch MacBook Pro. For... Read More
Amazon Dumps Intel
As Intel cuddles up to Apple at the expense of PC makers, arch rival Advanced Micro Devices has just got a big... Read More
Micron Picks Dicker Data As Australian Distributor
Dicker Data will be the distributor for Micron here in Australia, distributing a large array of high performance gaming computer parts. The... Read More
ASUS Use Computex To Show Prototype Dual Screen Notebook
ASUS who are desperate to be taken seriously as a PC brand in Australia have used Computex in Taiwan to reveal a... Read More
Harvey Norman & JB Hi Fi Staff Score Big At Monaco FI Won By Aussie
Harvey Norman and JB Hi Fi buyers scored a front row seat at the Monaco Grand Prix after Lenovo and Hewlett Packard ... Read More
Acer Best PC Company In The World For “Innovation” Claims Microsoft
At a gala event in New York famous Lincoln Centre Acer has revealed a powerful new range of products spanning gaming, consumer... Read More
Arch Rivals, Acer Is Growing While ASUS Struggles
Acer is on a roll with revenue from their Predator gaming products range delivering 130% growth year on year while arch rival... Read More
Banned Security Firm Kaspersky Set To Store OZ Data In Switzerland
Cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab who has been banned in the USA, has said that data secured in Australia will be stored in... Read More
Apple Mac Pro, Fast Becoming An Obsolete Piece Of Hardware No Updates Since 2013
Apple won’t release a Mac Pro upgrade until next year and even then, it’s tipped to be closer to 2020 than 2018,... Read More
Toshiba Welcomes First Outside CEO & Chairman In 50 Years
Tasked with getting the Japanese company “back on its feet”, Toshiba Corporation has welcomed its first outside Chairman and CEO in over... Read More
Google Set To Change The Way Chrome Browser Displays Content
Google is set to change the rules around their highly popular Chrome browser. Google will label all unencrypted web pages as “not... Read More
Lenovo Issues Voluntary Recall For Top End ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Chinese PC maker Lenovo, has issue a voluntary recall for their top end B2B, ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Generation notebooks due to... Read More
Intel Cuddles Up To Amazon With New Alexa Offering
In a move that could hurt Google’s voice ambitions, Intel has released a speech enabling developers kit that delivers a complete Amazon... Read More
Western Digital Looks To Stop $81bn Bid In Toshiba Chip Sale
US data storage giant Western Digital said it is trying again to block the sale of Toshiba’s prized semiconductor business to a... Read More
Crucial Launches SSD Promotion To Celebrate 21 Years
Crucial has launched a new giveaway promotion to celebrate its 21st anniversary of making and selling SSDs. Organised by the brand’s Australian distributor Bluechip... Read More
Intel Forced To Lift Embargo After 8Gen Processor Launch Botched
Intel has reportedly rescheduled the releases for some of its next-generation Cannon Lake-based processors, mostly ones with an integrated GPU, to the... Read More
Kayell Snare Sekonic Light Meters & PocketWizard Remote Triggers
Kayell Australia has been appointed the exclusive Australian distributor for Sekonic light meters and PocketWizard remote triggers. The company has specialised in... Read More
WD And Tosh Finally End Feud
A consortium led by Western Digital is reportedly close to an agreement to buy Toshiba’s US$17.4 billion chip business. WD’s CEO in... Read More
New Safer Battery Design Could Double Battery Life
A recently discovered magnesium battery design could be set to replace lithium ion batteries by offering twice the storage capacity without the... Read More
Gartner: Supply Shortages Will Reduce Smartphone Sales In 2017
According to the latest research from Gartner, supply shortages of critical hardware will likely bring down sales of premium smartphones, during the... Read More
Google Offers Details Of Titan
Google is set to unveil the technical details of its new Titan computer chip, an elaborate security feature for its cloud computing... Read More
Memory Shortage Hurts Lenovo
A supply squeeze in memory chips is said to be hampering Lenovo’s turnaround strategy, pushing the PC and phone maker to its... Read More
Microsoft Responds To Surface “Complete Dud” Claims
Plagued with Surface reliability issues Microsoft is now facing problems with retailers in Australia, who are now recommending products from Acer, Lenovo... Read More
Nintendo Switch Could Face Fresh Round Of Supply Problems
A fresh round of financial problems for component-manufacturer Japan Display Inc could see Nintendo lose the sole supplier for the displays used in... Read More
Future Looks Grim For SanDisk As Toshiba Tells Them To ‘Shove Off’.
SanDisk whose products are significantly over priced in Australia is facing major problems with parent Company Western Digital now battling to retain... Read More
AMD Unveils New ‘Threadripper’
Leading chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) chose the Siggraph annual computer graphics conference here to launch a range of powerful new products... Read More
US Claims Breakthrough With Rechargeable Alkaline Battery
A Massachusetts start-up company today plans to unveil what it claims is a major breakthrough in battery design: technology that it claims... Read More
Samsung Topples Intel As No. 1 Chipmaker
Samsung, known mostly for its smartphones and televisions, has taken the mantel from Intel as the world’s largest chipmaker by revenue. Samsung’s... Read More
AMD Basks In Revenue Jump
Advanced Micro Devices has forecast current-quarter revenue above estimates and raised full-year expectations, based on robust demand for its graphics chips and... Read More
LG Scores iPhone 9 ‘L’ Shaped Battery Deal As Apple Struggles With iPhone 8
LG is set to score a deal making ‘L’ shaped batteries for the Apple iPhone 9 which is slated for launch in... Read More
Qualcomm’s Profit Tanks 40pc
The ongoing dispute between Qualcomm and Apple appears to be taking its toll on the chipmaker’s financials. Qualcomm’s third quarter revenue was... Read More
Qualcomm Loses EU Appeal
US chipmaker Qualcomm is looking down the barrel of a daily fine of 580,000 euros (A$842,000) after losing an appeal against a... Read More
WD To Trawl Tosh Databases
Western Digital has won a temporary court ruling that orders Toshiba to allow WD to access databases and chip samples as part... Read More
Tosh’s Chip Sale Falters
With the US$18 billion sale of Toshiba’s memory chip unit to a Japanese government-approved consortium now under threat, some interested buyers are... Read More
Apple Tipped To Go “All-OLED” By 2018
While an OLED display is tipped to be coming to only one of the three iPhone’s tipped for release this year, new... Read More
Imagine Disputes Apple Graphics
UK graphic chipmaker Imagination Technologies is continuing to hold preliminary talks with potential buyers, as the company looks to sell itself. The... Read More
Samsung Boosts Chip Investment
Samsung Electronics says it is planning to invest at least US$18.6 billion to extend its lead in memory chips and next-generation smartphone... Read More
Hynix Still In Tosh Chip Sale
An exerted effort by the Japanese Government to keep Korea’s SK Hynix out of the bidding for Toshiba’s semiconductor unit may have... Read More
Intel Ruling On The Horizon
Europe’s top court has set September 6 as the date it will rule on whether to uphold Intel’s appeal against a US$1.2... Read More
Qualcomm Debuts Under-Display Fingerprint Sensor
Qualcomm have announced a new technology that is capable of scanning fingerprints through a smartphone display. The company debuted the ‘Qualcomm Fingerprint Sensor for... Read More
Qualcomm Must Face Trial
The US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm has been given the green light by a US federal judge, who ruled... Read More
Toshiba Chip Unit Sale In Doubt
Western Digital has told Toshiba it won’t agree to a sale of the Japanese conglomerate’s memory chip unit to a preferred bidding... Read More
Chipmaker Imagination Up For Sale As Apple Pulls The Plug
Imagination Technologies is up for sale after Apple announced it won’t be using its graphic chips in the next iPhone. Since the... Read More
AMD Takes Aim At Xeon
AMD has taken the wraps off the first generation of its Zen-based Epyc server processors, as it aims to take market share... Read More
Memory Chip Drought Worsens
Apple’s new iPhone 8 launch, due later this year, is threatening to exacerbate the current shortage of memory chips which may last... Read More
Court Battle Over Tosh Chip Unit
The USA’s Western Digital has sought a court injunction to prevent Toshiba from selling its chip business without its consent. The move... Read More
