Category: Biz Tech

For the 2014-15 financial year, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, and Google all upped the amount of tax they paid in Australia over the year prior.According to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) 2014-15 Corporate Tax Transparency report, with

More than half of total Starbucks stores in the United States will be turned into either PokéStops or Gyms as part of a special Pokémon GO promotional event that was leaked recently. The official announcement of Pokémon GO's special Starbucks event comes just a day after Niantic announced its partnership with Sprint, growing Niantic's roster of corporate partners as it lures players back into the game. This, coupled with recent in-game bonuses, and the slow but sure revival of the tracker deems Niantic as

Brisbane-based Oventus Medical has opened a new 3D printing facility at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Clayton, Victoria campus.The facility builds on an existing partnership between Oventus and CSIRO, and will see the

Apple has seen a sharp year-over-year increase in the number US government demands for customer data.It's the company's first biannual report this year covering how many demands were made from global law enforcement and intelligence agencies,

Dropbox is often the choice solution for file storage in the cloud, but the problem is that as smartphones proliferate the market, widespread internet coverage is slow to follow suit, so accessing the cloud is not always an easy feat when physically moving from place to place. In this case, cloud-based file storage basically becomes useless on a smartphone. Dropbox previously enabled a solution for this by allowing offline access for individual files, but it's now extending that functionality to folders altogether. Access

Pebble's time ran out.Pebble did not launch the first smartwatch or even the first smartwatch of the modern era. But its combination of long battery life, daylight-readable display and iOS compatibility led it to become the

The holiday season 2016 has already started and shoppers are looking out for deals for themselves and for gifting. Gaming consoles are one of the top picks every holiday season. Analysts predict that this holiday season, Sony PlayStation 4 (PS4) will be ahead of Microsoft Xbox One in terms on sales. Global PS4 Sales Surpasses 50 Million On Wednesday, Sony announced that PS4 sales have surpassed 50 million units, thanks to the "best ever Black Friday week in the history of PlayStation." Sony launched

Shigeru Miyamoto announces Super Mario Run.

Dell Technologies said its infrastructure group delivered a mixed third quarter as all-flash storage systems, hybrid cloud and hyperconverged gear grew, but storage array and server demand fell.The company's third quarter results include 52 days of

The harvest time at the International Space Station has made big news after NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough cut the "Outredgeous" Red Romaine lettuce leaves that he nurtured aboard for an mid-afternoon snack. The fruit of labor also signaled the success of "cut-and-come-again" gardening technique of NASA aimed at growing on-orbit crops to boost astronaut diets with nutritious and fresh food. The Veggie project started on Oct. 25 for the first time in space, with Kimbrough grooming six lettuce plants that grew simultaneously. He

Can you imagine a bank where artificial intelligence runs checking accounts, debit cards, and wire transfers?

Now is an exciting time in the tech world due to the insane pace of its development. This narrative has just been reinforced with the introduction of Bluetooth 5, which features double than its predecessor's speed and an incredible quadrupled network range. Bluetooth 5 Launch The technology was announced early this year and is being touted as one of the enabling mechanisms that will support the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) era. On Dec. 7, Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced

Turning on File History is literally as easy as flipping a switch.

A British regulator said on Wednesday that it fined pharmaceutical company Pfizer 84.2 million pounds, or about $107 million, for increasing the price of an epilepsy drug by as much as 2,600 percent. From $3.57 To $85.06 The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that the New York-based drug company broke competition law for the excessive and unfair pricing of the phenytoin sodium capsules in the United Kingdom in September 2012 after the drug was intentionally debranded. The CMA said that from $3.57

A Turkish cyberattack group is luring individuals to join a DDoS platform to compete for points through games which can be redeemed for hacking tools. The platform, dubbed Surface Defense, asks hackers to

Samsung has recently allowed Galaxy S7 and S7 edge owners enrolled in its beta program to try out Android 7.0 Nougat before the official build rolls out, likely for users to pry the software for potential bugs, issues and the ilk. Once the beta trial concludes, the official Nougat build will then hit Galaxy S7 and S7 edge devices before 2016 ends. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Galaxy S7 and S7 edge models under Verizon. Big Red has now confirmed that

Data should be given "personalities", with different characteristics, so businesses can better analyse the information and extract actionable insights. Many organisations today were struggling to understand the data available because there was so much information

Almost a month after a public beta which began in November, Spotify and manufacturer of smart speakers Sonos are finally releasing an update which gives users direct control of all Sonos speakers via the Spotify app. Controlling Sonos Speakers With Spotify The update fundamentally turns any Sonos speakers into an eligible Spotify Connect speaker, with Sonos' multi-room functionality thrown into the mix. The new feature was originally announced back in August, allowing users to control the music playing on Sonos speakers directly from Spotify, provided that

Slack's push to become the de facto communications portal in the enterprise workflow got a boost on Wednesday with the announcement of an expanded partnership with Google Cloud.

Softbank president Masayoshi Son walked out of President-Elect Trump's office with a big grin on his face this yesterday, which can only signify one thing for me: a Sprint/T-Mobile merger is a done deal. Actual news stories don't want to say this, because Trump and Son didn't say it explicitly. According to the New York Times, Son "is projected" to spend half of his $100 billion "Vision" investment fund on tech companies in the US, where, the Times notes, he was

Spider-Man comics have never shied away from being weird. Classic Spider-Man villain Doc-Ock not too long ago possessed Peter Parker's body only to eventually be removed, and events have only continued to get stranger from there. Which is where the ongoing The Clone Conspiracy event comes in. Spider-Man and clones have a long history, and some of that history comes back in spectacular fashion in the latest issue of Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy.If you haven't been following Marvel's ongoing Spider-Man event,

Alcohol intake is associated with higher rates of developing cancer, among white men and women. As part of the association, white wine was the most obvious correlation. The study, published in the journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, suggested that nearly 3.6 percent of cancer cases around the globe can be associated with alcohol, especially the ones of the aerodigestive tract, pancreas, liver, rectum, colon, and breast. White Wine - Higher Cancer Risk As part of the

Microsoft has unveiled a new chatbot named Zo, but this time, she's available on Kik, instead of Twitter, where earlier this year, her predecessor—known as Tay—went on a rather racist tirade before being shut down. I've never heard a clear explanation as to why Microsoft is making chatbots, and I have to assume the worst: They are on track to deliver ads. If you ever spend time on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), you run into these bot things all the time.

Will this truck be the eyes and ears of the smart city? Credit: USPSThe future of the U.S. Postal Service could be as the eyes, ears and sensor network for the smart city. If cities played

Samsung is only a few months away from unveiling the Galaxy S8 to the world. The smartphone will reportedly ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack and drop its physical home button for a fingerprint scanner embedded into its new RGB Super AMOLED Quad HD display. Apple and Samsung dominate the smartphone market and both companies have taken inspiration from each other over the years. Most recently Apple added a water-resistant feature to its new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, a popular feature

Almost a third of smartwatches and fitness trackers, 29 and 30 percent respectively, are abandoned by their owners, according to a new study by analyst firm Gartner.More than 9,500 consumers from Australia, the United Kingdom, and

Samsung is partnering up with SLG Design and Strap Studios to give every Gear S3 classic or frontier owner out there more ways to personalize their smartwatch. That said, these watch bands throw in a touch of style in the mix, creating a perfect blend of fashion and functionality out of the Samsung wearable. Strap Studio(Photo : Strap Studio)With 15 straps made out of Italian leather that range from $29 to $39, Strap Studio has an impressive and affordable selection. According to the designer, they're

As its ADSL business is replaced by the NBN and the cost of offering services to consumers moves from AU$15 to AU$40, thanks to the NBN's connectivity virtual circuit charge, Australian telco TPG will look to

The recently released stable version of the Android 7.1.1 Nougat update is fixing some Google Pixel and Pixel XL owners' LTE Band 4 connectivity problems. This comes hot on the heels of when some users in North and South America reported that their Phones by Google had an issue with making a stable connection via the frequency last month. The Sweetest Android Is The Fix Those who have updated their Pixels to Android 7.1.1 are now saying that their phones can now use LTE Band 4

NoHold, a Milpitas, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that pioneered chatbots in the 1990s, has launched a "quickstart" platform targeted towards small to medium size businesses (SMBs) and individuals interested in creating virtual assistants quickly, easily,

One of the key strengths of cloud computing is its inherent resilience and ubiquity: get the architecture right, and you can be assured that your data resides in multiple locations, providing both data resilience and the

The 2016 edition of the Samsung Galaxy A5, released in January of this year, received a patch in early November to fix a critical security issue. Samsung did not disclose any specific details regarding the issue that the November update solved, perhaps to ward off attackers from looking for similar exploits. Unfortunately, it seems that there are more of such vulnerabilities in the Galaxy A5, as Samsung has released another security update for the smartphone. Latest Security Patch For Samsung Galaxy A5