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As if the progress of Australia’s NBN didn’t deserve enough criticism (albeit, largely leveled at its political masters rather than the delivery agency itself), the NBN Co has reported this week that, after a year of decline, it’s starting to see more connections using the lowest possible NBN speed tier. …

Want some data? Perhaps a lot of it? Australia’s newest telco Circles.Life is offering a 100GB mobile plan for the bargain basement price of just $28 a month. Correct. 100GB for just $28. That’s not a mistake. What you’re looking at is a promotion from Circles.Life to bring new customers …

Late last month, the major US carriers agreed to rollout RCS .. sort of. The Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative was a custom iteration of the RCS protocol, rather than a standards-based approach, and it would have required a carrier app to make it work. In a rare show of strength against …

The Montblanc Summit 2 was the first Wear OS smartwatch running the newer Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 chipset, and it’s now just on twelve months old. According to an FCC listing, there’s a Montblanc smartwatch just around the corner and it’s called the Summit 2+. The Montblanc Summit 2+ carries …

Google Stadia team members, including Andrey Doronichev, Director of Product for Stadia at Google, conducted an AMA over at Reddit and in doing so revealed a lot about Stadia that was unknown. One thing that came to light was an upcoming accessory that will most likely prove extremely handy — …

Over at Reddit a couple of members from the Google Stadia team conducted an AMA and true to the name of the event everything was asked and a lot of answers were given — not always avoiding the hard answers like so many of these AMAs end up doing. The …

Google Search has a lot of neat features outside of providing results for keyword searches. For instance, try searching for “Solitaire” or a flight number. Google today announced a new feature which will help you learn to pronounce English words. If you search for “How to pronounce isthmus”, for example, …

Before there were smartphones, there were feature phones, and one of the most iconic was the Motorola RAZR. If you’re my age (or a bit younger, I’ll grant) then the Motorola RAZR was the epitome of cool – a flip phone with cameras that looked, sounded and just was cool. …

Wear OS isn’t the best system for wearables out there, but Google is slowly improving it with incremental updates. The latest update includes a new Play Store design. The previous pull-down menu is gone completely, meaning it no longer covers the search button. The options within have been moved to …

Look, with the number of stories I write about gin, it’s probably about time I’m sounding like I have a bit of a problem. I’m quite partial to a good gin, and I also don’t mind trying new gins to find out whether they’re good or not. The perfect Christmas …

Disney+ has had a tumultuous launch overseas with many people reporting connection errors, and it might not be working at all if you’re running an Nvidia Shield TV. According to an Nvidia staff post you may not be able to download the app on rooted devices or those running a …

This afternoon Huawei has announced three new products coming to Australia – the updated Huawei Watch GT 2, the active noise cancelling Huawei FreeBuds 3, and a new obsidian black variant of the venerable Huawei P30 Pro. Available in four styles and two different sizes, there’s a Huawei Watch GT …