Chris Rowland — Last month, we ran a fundraiser with our mate Claire Porter from News Ltd to raise funds for Sydney’s Shoeshine Brian, or moniker aside, Brian Rudd. Claire started this campaign with the ambitious goal of raising $20,000 to help Brian into accommodation and off the streets. While this might have been a bit too ambitious...

Chris Rowland — When Google Hangouts launched last week amid the Google I/O fanfare, one thing that was notably missing was support for tablets. We all know that Android tablets do take a bit of a flogging, but the reality is there’s quite a number of them, and some are quite well loved. Whether it was an oversight...

Scott Plowman — When Google finally made Google Play Music available in Australia last month, the first criticisms were from users who had already begun using streaming services such as Spotify, MOG or JB Hifi Now. At the Google IO Keynote on Thursday morning however Google announced their own streaming music service – Google Music All Access. Unfortunately,...

Daniel Tyson — The ill fated Nexus Q was Google’s first attempt at a media player, but the high price and lack of features saw it shelved before actually being made widely available for sale; but it looks as though Google has embarked on another attempt at a media playing device with a new device showing up at...

Daniel Tyson — Fans of the Niantic Labs game Ingress will be pleased to see that a second Novella has been released that further expands the story line from the game. Niantic Project: Ingress ebook (An Exotic Matter) is written by Felicia Hajra-Lee and covers the story of Dr. Devra Bogdanovich and her quest to uncover the truth...

Daniel Tyson — The Samsung Galaxy S4 is shaping up to be the best selling Galaxy device to date, with Samsung Electronics co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun advising that the Korean manufacturer is confident that they will pass the 10 million unit sales mark at some stage next week, making it the fastest selling smartphone in Samsung’s history. Released to...

Daniel Tyson — It’s been a rough ride for HTC the past few months, with slipping profits and issues securing components for their latest flagship device, but it appears that things are looking up for the Taiwanese based company; according to Jack Tong, president of HTC North Asia, HTC will double their production output in May for the...

Daniel Tyson — Due out in Australia on June 6th, the Sony Xperia Tablet Z already has a lot going for it. Not only does the tablet look great but it also some powerful specs and the added bonus of being waterproof and Sony just made the Xperia Tablet Z just that little bit more attractive by adding...

Darren Kemp — I am a big user of Google Tasks to keep track of all of the little things that I need to do around the house. Most of my tasks are simple reminders for me to pay my bills a couple of days before they are due. As soon as Google announced that you can now...

Phil Tann — Some of the biggest Android apps are destined for their own official Google Glass release very soon. The following apps have been discussed at Google I/O: Twitter Facebook Path Evernote Tumblr CNN Elle The New York Times While it’s priced well out of the price range of the average consumer, Google Glass Explorer Edition was...

Darren Kemp — After taking a few videos of my kids tonight I went into the gallery app and was greeted with a new folder called ‘Auto Backup’. This folder appears to have replaced the ‘Instant Upload’ folder, and given the photo announcements from the Google I/O Keynote I wouldn’t be surprised if this is related to those....

Phil Tann — At Google I/O this year, Google unsurprisingly launched its unified messaging services Hangouts. Users of the new service have quickly discovered two shortfalls – one, Hangouts doesn’t work on tablets just yet. The second, however, was that contrary to early rumours, Hangouts does not integrate SMS or MMS. Dori Storbeck, Google+ Community Manager for Hangouts,...

James Finnigan — The Galaxy S III was super popular, but can Samsung repeat last year’s success against renewed competition? The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is set to be the hottest smartphone of 2013, and considering the success of its predecessor, will likely cement Samsung’s place as the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world. It does face...