Australia is a member of the US-led Five Eyes mass-surveillance alliance; and since 2015, ISPs have been legally required to retain metadata logs relating to their customers internet use for two years. In December 2018 the Assistance & Access Bill (clearly modelled on the UK’s highly controversial Investigatory Powers Act) …

Camera drones make great travel companions. They never conflict with your itinerary, they provide hours of fun, and they help you relive your favourite holiday memories in a truly unique way. That being said, we all know that maximising luggage space is essential when travelling – so do you really …

After Shifty Jelly’s announcement last week that Pocket Weather AU is now living on borrowed time, we’ve been inundated by requests for alternatives. Besides a beautiful and functional design, Pocket Weather AU presented data from the best source of Australian Weather data (the government-funded Bureau of Meteorology), so we checked …

It feels like Samsung’s Gear S3 was launched not that long ago, and the Gear Sport – which I’m still wearing today – has been tiding us over. However, the Gear S3 was launched back in 2016 – I remember this, because it wasn’t long after my daughter was born …

What you’re seeing above is an indigo/purple coloured Galaxy Note 9, with a gold/yellow S Pen,and it looks great. I’m not sure this combination will actually be on sale together, but one certainly hopes! This image was shared on Twitter last night but there was precious little detail to accompany it …

Last night, Samsung launched the long anticipated (and heavily leaked) Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ at their event in New York. The phones will be arriving here officially on the 28th of April, so how can you get one? The phone will come in three colours in Australia: Midnight Black, …

What a week we’ve had — for what felt like a slow week we’ve certainly managed to cram a lot into it, from hardware launches to hardware leaks to new and leaked software for Google and the steady growth of Android Pay in Australia. It has been a little crazy. …

This week has been a bit of a mixed bag; there hasn’t been a lot ‘new’ on the Android front but we’ve still had some excitement. On the hardware front, we got our first leaked look at Google’s next handsets Sailfish and Marlin and we had great news for Australian Moto …

This week has been relatively quiet for mobile news, as we continue the wait for August/September where we see things ramp up significantly. Note 7? That’s coming. Nexus season? Not far away. IFA 2016? Oh yeah, that’s less than two months away now. As we bide the time, we take …

The week in Android saw a few new things happening around the world and in Australia. In hardware, we got our first official look at the HTC 10 and the initial impressions are positive, closer to home in Telco news there was a PR hiccup from Telstra, though thankfully there …

It was a quiet week this week with no major Android news. But there’s always stuff of interest for Android, Chrome or Telco news in Australia. Indeed the most amount of news came from apps, and there’s a bunch of new apps or trials for you to see. Before we …

Well, we started the week with the Easter Monday public holiday but we all got back to work and that means it was busy, busy, busy. To make sure you didn’t miss out on anything important, here’s the best bits of the week that was Android in Australia. Reviews The …

It’s been a big week in Android, Google and Telco news across Australia. It’s sometimes hard to keep up with the news with all our lives so busy, so we’re starting to present the news in a weekly wrap up for you to check out on a Sunday. Reviews This …