Daniel Tyson — After extending availability of Google Music to Australia as well as six other countries, it appears from a report from both TheVerge and The New York Times that Google is looking to launch a streaming music service to compete with the likes of Spotify and MOG. The service will be added to YouTube as well...

Daniel Tyson — After being announced at CES in January, Nvidia has finally announced details on availability for their hand-held gaming console, which up to now has been called Project Shield, the name has been officially announced as simply: SHIELD. The Tegra 4 powered device will go up for pre-order in the US and Canada via retailers Newegg,...

Phil Tann — The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 arrived in my life late yesterday morning, I’ve had a chance to play with the device and start setting it up. While a full review is likely around 2 weeks away, I try to share my first impressions of a review device fairly quickly so here we go. The first...

Jason Murray — It was the night before I/O, and all through the Drive, not a creature was stirring not even Jony Ive. The phone cases were hung by the tablets with care, in the hope that Sergey Brin’s skydiving Glass team soon would be there. The leadup to I/O is somewhat like Christmas, so we decided to...

Chris Rowland — It’s not surprising that we’re hearing a lot of Google rumours this week, with Google I/O around the corner again. This time, we have Mingchi Kuo, an analyst with KGI Securities with a bit of gossip. Kuo, who has had accurate information regarding Apple product launches in the past, has given 9 to 5 Google...

Darren Kemp — Back in June 2012, Google gave ‘top developers’ the ability to respond directly to user reviews through the Play Store, which is great for communication between customers and developers. Then in January this year, Google started giving more developers the ability to respond and now Google have officially announced that all developers can reply to...

Daniel Tyson — After we saw the One-Touch Collection announced for sale yesterday, Sony has announced that the Xperia Tablet Z will be available from June 6th. Available in three models, a 16/32GB version as well as a 16GB LTE model the pricing has also been confirmed: 16GB+Wi-Fi – $539 32GB+Wi-Fi – $649 16GB+Wi-Fi/LTE – $679 Pricing excludes...

James Finnigan — In another of their famous apk teardowns, Android Police have discovered what is probably the best thing to come to Android since Mathias Duarte — app data syncing. There are some other interesting reveals too, but for me this one is where it’s at. According to their post, the updated Google Play Services comes with...

Chris Rowland — At Google’s I/O developer conference in 2012, Google unveiled an unlikely Nexus product, the Nexus Q. The Nexus Q was an Android powered media player, and while it was supposedly going to see a release shortly after I/O last year, it never happened. A month after I/O, Google announced that the launch of the Q...

Chris Rowland — Most users of Android will know the simplicity that comes from using a Google account for keeping tabs on your email, contacts, calendars, Play Store purchases and the like. Like it or not, the Google ecosystem works pretty well, and Google are always making little improvements here and there to make it a bit easier...

Phil Tann — Sony have today confirmed the rumour we reported at the end of April, the Xperia ZR is on it’s way. The specs that were leaked a few weeks back were pretty much on the money — a standout feature for many users will be the 13MP camera. Just as clothes don’t make the man, megapixels...

Phil Tann — If you’re an HTC One user and a fan of the popular third party ROM Cyanogenmod, it’s time to party! Nightly builds are now available for the brand new HTC One. Nightly builds means that the team at CM have got all hardware working reliably, including: Wireless: both mobile and data Cameras Audio Wifi Bluetooth...

Scott Plowman — Back in November last year we reported on an interesting offer from Carphone Warehouse which involved a white LG Nexus 4.  This unfortunately failed to materialise and was largely forgotten about until January when someone snapped a photo of the mythical white Nexus 4 in the wild.  The device was rumoured to have been given...