Major Distributors Drop Staff Stock Financing For Some A Problem
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April 2, 2020
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Major distributors are laying off staff some up to 50% of their entire workforce due to the Coronavirus epidemic, this is despite... Read More
Bluestream Appoints Jands As Its Commercial Distributor In Australia
Australia’s HDMI, video and audio distributor Bluestream has announced its appointment of Sydney-based Jands as their professional and commercial distributor in Australia.... Read More
COVID-19: ACCC Releases Guidelines For Small Businesses Managing Refunds And Cancellations
The ACCC has issued guidelines to help small businesses understand their rights and obligations under the Australian Consumer Law, given the mass... Read More
Samsung To Start Rolling Out New Range of 4K And Crystal UHD TVs
From today, Samsung will begin rolling out its 2020 range of 4K and Crystal UHD TVs across Australia’s major retailers. Samsung has... Read More
Apple Rains In Dark Sky
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple has purchased Dark Sky, a popular US weather app and, according to the company, there will be “no changes” for... Read More
GPost Delivers Location Messages
SYDNEY: A group of Australian software developers has launched a free messaging app, dubbed GPost, that enables messages to be distributed to... Read More
Sonos, First They Nobble Customers Now They Nobble Retailers For Discounting
US sound Company Sonos, has moved to nobble the retail partners who helped get the brand off the ground in Australia, because... Read More
A Work Of Art: Samsung Rolls Out Pioneering 2020 Lifestyle TVs
On top of its new QLED 8K and 4K TVs, Samsung’s 2020 range of TVs includes exciting new lifestyle products – namely,... Read More
Samsung Announces Local Launch Of Industry-Leading 2020 Range Of 8K TVs
Today, Samsung Electronics Australia unveiled its new range of 8K QLED TVs, offering stunning image quality and a whole host of new... Read More
Data Show Oz Internet Speeds Slumping During COVID19
MELBOURNE: When it comes to working from home curing COVID19, it appears not all cities are equal. According to figures supplied to... Read More
NEC A/NZ Offers Health Monitor App For Those Quarantined
SYDNEY: NEC A/NZ and a group of software developers have come up with a smartphone app, iQuarantine, that uses NEC’s face-recognition technology... Read More
Major Cloud Space Scrambling, New Toilet Paper Issue
BRISBANE: “Datacentres are the new toilet-paper,”says the always colourful Superloop/Megaport/NextDC founder Bevan Slattery, pictured. In a post on LinkedIn he warns that... Read More
JB Hi Fi & The Good Guys Benefit From Expanded Samsung 2020 TV Range
Samsung has moved to launch an extensive range of TV’s for 2020 including new rotating TV’s, 8K, Lifestyle and Ultra High Definition... Read More
Fitbit Unveils Latest Fitness Tracker – The Charge 4 – Plus Free 90-Day Trial Of Fitbit Premium App
Today, Fitbit unveiled its latest fitness tracker – the Charge 4 – which will be available at local retailers such as JB... Read More
Disney+ Attracts 1.8 Million Australian Subscribers In First Three Months
Since entering the Australian market in November 2019, Disney+ has gained ground quickly, amassing more than 1.8 million subscribers, according to Roy... Read More
Kmart Insists There Was ‘Minimal Risk’ To Customers After Employees Test Positive For COVID-19
Chadstone Kmart, located in Melbourne’s popular Chadstone Mall, closed yesterday afternoon, after two casual team members tested positive for COVID-19. “As soon... Read More
Light At The End Of The Tunnel For Distributors As Dollar Heads To $0.70
For distributors there is light appearing at the end of the tunnel, especially those that have already put their prices up when... Read More
Amazon Workers Strike For COVID19 Protection
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK: E-commerce giant Amazon is facing more problems than coronavirus as workers at their so-called fulfillment centres begin to exercise... Read More
Audiences On Australia’s Top-10 News Sites Up A Massive 54%
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australians have been consuming more news across the board. According to Nielsen data, the audience... Read More
COVID19 May Make You Fat, If You Don’t Exercise More
SAN FRANCISCO: Coronavirus may do more harm than give a life-threatening respiratory illness. It seems it may also make you fat. A... Read More
Parliament To Be Called Early
CANBERRA: Parliament could sit as early as next week to pass legislation related to the new JobKeeper payment, with Labor likely to... Read More
WA shutdown: Local Coppers Call In The Drones
PERTH: West Australian police will use drones to enforce unprecedented border closures as the State goes into lockdown in a bid to... Read More
Telehealth Consultations Soar
CANBERRA: The Federal Government says more than one million telehealth conferences between doctors and patients have been held in Australia since strict... Read More
NBN Co & Retail Service Providers Form Working Group To Meet Demand And Support Consumers
NBN Co and five of the country’s major retail service providers (RSPs) – Telstra, Optus, Vodafone Hutchinson, TPG and Vocus – have... Read More
Coronavirus Wipes $47 Billion Off Technology Spend
NEW YORK: When the top-of-the-bill Mobile World Congress (MWC) cancelled this year, it was followed in quick succession by many major IT... Read More
COVID-19: Australian Consumer Confidence Plunges To Record Low
In the ANZ-Roy Morgan survey conducted on the weekend consumer confidence hit 65.3, the lowest level since the survey commenced in 1973.... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Marketing Director Quits Netgear For Key Distributor Role
Andrew Tyler the Marketing Manager Netgear has quit after 18 months to join Sydney based distributor Panmi the distributor of the popular... Read More
Angus Jones, Former CMO Of LG: Positive Responses To The COVID-19 Crisis
My previous article discussed how to survive the recession. This time I wanted to applaud some of the companies doing smart stuff.... Read More
Zerox Pulls The Plug On HP Bid Could Be On Again After Covid-19 Epidemic
Xerox Holdings has pulled the plug on its hostile bid for PC maker Hewlett Packard however it could be back on after... Read More
Retail Boss Questions Whether $130-Billion Handout Will Be Enough
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March 31, 2020
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Rob Scott, the Managing Director of Wesfarmers Group, believes that the government’s wage subsidy payment of $1500 per fortnight “only goes so... Read More
Distributors Move In To Sieze Back Audio Stock Retailers Threatened With Legal Action
Distributors of high-end audio are not bothering with niceties during the Coronavirus epidemic, with at least two major distributors moving this week... Read More
COVID-19: Medicine Wholesalers Allowed To Cooperate To Facilitate Distribution
The ACCC has granted wholesalers of medicines interim authorisation to cooperate in order to facilitate the distribution of essential medication and pharmacy... Read More
Bunnings Gets Greenlight To Acquire Adelaide Tools And Oaklands Mower Centre
The ACCC has announced that it will not oppose Bunnings’ acquisition of Adelaide Tools and Oaklands Mower Centre, which sells power tools... Read More
Alcatel Rolls Out New Store With #1 OZ Value Smartphone Range
Alcatel Australia’s #1 value smartphone brand and the #3 overall brand behind Apple and Samsung have launched a new virtual shop on... Read More
Electronics Manufacturer Foxconn Reports Third Year Of Falling Profits
Hon Hai Precision Industry, more commonly known as Foxconn, reported that its net profits fell for the third consecutive year in 2019,... Read More
Microsoft Snaps Up Virtualised Telco Affirmed Networks
SEATTLE: Microsoft has confirmed it has struck a deal to buy telecommunications virtualisation specialist Affirmed Networks for an undisclosed sum to take... Read More
BMC, NEC Oz Link Arms To Promote Digital Strategy
SYDNEY: BMC and NEC Australia have struck a deal that sees NEC using BMC’s Helix program to offer its clients service assurance... Read More
Telco Industry Offers COVID Guide
SYDNEY: The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) and Communications Alliance have set up a joint Web page dubbed “Keeping Australians Connected”, with... Read More
Office 365 Out, Microsoft 365 In – New Subscription Aimed At Families
Microsoft has begun rolling out its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Plans subscription services, focusing its additions and upgrades on family application.... Read More
Video Meetings Up 1000 Percent
SYDNEY/SANTA CLARA: Online or video meetings, in these blighted days of the coronavirus invasion, are very much to be preferred to physical... Read More
NSW Govt. Techies Call For Help
SYDNEY: If you’re a techie who’s been sacked due to the coronavirus extravaganza, here’s one possible path to at least a short-... Read More
A Story Of Four Magnets – And A Pain In The Nose
SYDNEY: Not all the technology news is grim, as we have discovered. Here’s a little bit of schadenfreude that bobbed up yesterday.... Read More
No Quarantine Cops To Prowl Aussie Streets: ScoMo Promise
CANBERRA: Scott Morrison has denied that the Australian Government might follow the example of Britain and the USA in using technology to... Read More
Banks Coordinate On Relief Package For Commercial Property Landlords That Do Not Evict Tenants
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACCC has granted a second interim authorisation for the Australian Banking Association (ABA) and its... Read More
Huawei Now Tries To Flog Australians Questionable Wi Fi 6 Routers
Huawei whose consumer smartphone business has come to a standstill in Australia is now trying to get into consumers’ homes with routers... Read More
Wesfarmers Pitch To Keep Officeworks & Bunnings Open As They Exit Coles
Wesfarmers who has not denied speculating that they are set to close down their loss making Target stores has said that they... Read More
Daytime Traffic On NBN Up 70%, Mobile Networks Up 40%
Advice to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased pressure on the NBN and telecom networks in non-CBD areas. The... Read More
Hibernation Economy: Top-5 Smart Fridges In 2020
As Australians prepare to hibernate until the COVID-19 pandemic is over, fridges and freezers have been selling out at appliance retailers across... Read More
$130 Billion Package Designed To Save Distributors & Retailers Announced
The Prime Minister has unveiled a $130 billion economic package but to get access to this distributors and small retailers will have... Read More
Retailers & Distributors Told To ‘Hang On’ As Government Moves To Prop Up Business
Consumer electronics and appliance retailers who are moving to online to drive business have been told they “Must innovate and iterate” to... Read More
