Foxtel Battle Looms New Pay TV Network Discussed A battle is looming over the ownership of Foxtel following revelations that CEO Kim Williams tried to orchestrate the dumping of Telstra cable in favour of all content being delivered via an Optus-owned Satellite service.
Opposition Set To Attack NBN Costs The Federal Opposition is planning to bombard Comms and Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy with questions following yesterday's release of Auditor-General Ian McPhee's report on the Government's original $4.7 billion plan for a fibre-to-the node national broadband network eventually abandoned in favour of the current $43 billion fibre-to-the-premises NBN proposal.
Harvey Norman All A Twitter Over Social Networking After bagging online and Internet shopping as a dud, Harvey Norman is now is set to eat humble pie and embrace social networking and online marketing as a key part of its marketing in 2010.
New $20K Panasonic 3D Camera Set To Go On Sale In OZ If you are looking to move into the 3D production market in Australia but are intimidated by the cost of having to buy two cameras, help is at hand with Panasonic set to launch a fully integrated, twin-lens HD 3D camcorder.
Dick Smith Reveals Hot Xmas Buys Dick Smith has revealed its Top 10 bestsellers for this holiday season, demonstrating the trend towards smaller, sleeker tech.
New Slim PS3 Pushes Along Global Game Console Sales The launch of the new Sony slim PS3 Playstation console has stimulated the entire gaming console market, with Sony driving sales in the category, claims research Company iSuppli. However, the launch has failed to lift Sony in the overall market, with sales still lagging behind the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft.
Simpsons And Family Guy Top The Charts The Simpsons and Family Guy were the two most popular TV shows for the first week of summer, followed by crime-o-vision favourites NCIS and Midsomer Murders.
Navigation, MP3 Players And Digital Cameras Sales Set To Crash Leading research company GFK has said that the consumer electronics market will decline despite reaching over $681 bn in sales and, while the Australian market is still growing, the USA will decline 12 per cent and Europe 36 per cent.
Screen Size, Picture Quality & Online Key To TV Purchase Picture quality and screen size, are the two most important issues for TV buyers when they walk into a retail store. Also playing a role in the purchase decision is the research they do online prior to making a purchase.
Apple Sends Wake Up Message To Competitors The Apple App store which is envied by the likes of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft is booming with Apple announcing that 2 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store, and the pace "continues to accelerate”.
New IT Powers To Stop Attacks Introduced By Feds The Federal Government has introduced legislation that will allow computer network operators to intercept communications for the protection of networks without breaching current telecommunications interception laws.
CEDIA Expo Down 12% More than 300 Australians registered for CEDIA in the USA which was attended by over 20,000 professionals from the residential electronics systems industry claims CEDIA.
Jobs Gets Liver Transplant Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple who took leave late last year because of a medical condition, has had a liver transplant according to the Wall Street Journal.
Palm Disappears Downunder As Pre Launch Imminent Desperate for success with their new Pre Phone, Palm Australia seems to have disappeared, with calls to 3 serviced offices yesterday failing to reveal where Palm Australia is operating from or whether they still have a service operation in Australia.
TiVo Set To Go To 1 Terrabyte But It Will Cost You Foxtel is shunning the introduction of additional storage claiming that content providers such as Sony, Warner and Universal would not support a 1 Terrabyte drive because it would impact DVD sales. However, Hybrid Television has taken the opposite view and is set to launch a 1TB Western Digital expander drive for their TiVo digital recorder.
Self Inflicted Wounds Hurting Sony COMMENT: For more than 20 years I have been writing about Sony and during that period I’ve developed a huge respect for this Japanese brand because one could always rely on the quality of the Sony product and the fact that by majority it was a made in Japan brand, which in the past really meant something.
Widget TV Set To Hit OZ Soon For those buying a new flat panel TV this year the chances are that you are going to be bombarded with a new feature called Widget TV. So what is Widget TV? Calvin Hsieh, Research Director at DisplaySearch said in a recent blog the idea of a “Widget Channel” designed for TV was introduced by Intel and Yahoo.
BBC Proposes New Way To Watch TV The BBC one of the world’s biggest broadcasters has said that the Internet will become the main way that TV programmes are distributed to viewers in the future and that the distribution of an iPlayer type services delivered via a set top box will be the way that consumers in the future will watch TV.
Beat Up Story A Painful Experience For Sony The British Journal of Dermatology has a report that could be quite disturbing for Playstation PS3 players who keep a tight grip on their gaming. However Sony insiders are claiming that the report is a beat-up because only one person was involved in the research.
Plasma TV Sales Booming Panasonic Cleans Up Plasma TV’s that are still considered the best large screen flat panel TV’s in the market today are booming with sales up 37% according to DisplaySearch.
EXCLUSIVE: New Gear For Apple Sydney Store Apple Australia is set to range only premium third party products in their new Sydney store with Bose, B&W and JBL among the big winners. Not getting a gig are brands like Belkin and Altec Lansing. Apple will also have from day one a new range of iPhone accesories including products from V Moda and Jawbone.
Logitech Rolls Out New Squeezebox & Harmony Remote Logitech is determined to capture a major share of the emerging $2 billion dollar home accessory market by rolling out a swag of new control products as well as new home cinema speakers at the 2008 CES Expo in Las Vegas.
New Ball. Football Will Never Be The Same Again Soccer in Australia could be in for big changes with the introduction of new FIFA sanctioned technology that instantly reveals whether a ball has crossed the line for a goal.
Philips & Sony Outsource LCD TVs Philips and Sony have moved to outsourcing production of their small LCD TVs to Taiwanese company Qisda, formerly known as BenQ.
Inexpensive Laptop Stand Gains Distribution An Adelaide-based start-up which has developed an inexpensive laptop stand is about to sign on with a local distributor, allowing it to sell in laptop point-of-sale retailers.
50,000 Volt Stun Gun Set To Go On Sale To Women A small handbag sized electronic stun gun that looks like an electric razer and gives out a 50,000 volt jolt is set to be sold to the public, with the company that makes it targeting women users.
Nine Loss Will Hurt Free To Air TV Networks COMMENT: The win by Ice TV will allow for the immediate roll out of an electronic program guide by consumer electronic vendors without the possibility of them being sued by TV Networks who are desperate to prevent the skipping of TV commercials.
The Technology We Love Identified The Australian CE market is growing with demand for notebooks, DVD players, DVD recorders, large TV screens and home theatre driving the market.
