Australian smartphone market share Q2 2020 (final update)
Gartner’s Australian smartphone market share Q2 2020 reveals some interesting, but not unexpected figures. COVID has made some major changes to the smartphone ...
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ACCC – amaysim and Lycamobile deceit to win customers
amaysim and Lycamobile have paid penalties of $126,000 and $12,600 after the ACCC issued each of these mobile services providers with an infringement notice fo...
Apple iPhone 12 5G – launch details
The Apple iPhone 12 5G comes in two flavours, each with two sizes.
The iPhone 12 series with a dual camera starts with the entry-level 5.4" mini from $1199 ...
iSelect fined $8.4m for dodgy and misleading conduct – price comparison websites suck
iSelect is a price comparison website. It (and all its dodgy cohorts) pretend to offer you the best deal on a range of mobile, internet, electricity, human and...
The Social Dilemma outs the greatest problem facing humankind
The Social Dilemma is a Netflix documentary about big tech monetising your data. And if you thought that was all about serving so-called relevant ads to you th...
How Amazon uses AI to drive sales, well everything
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, is the wealthiest person in the world. Was it DI (Divine Intervention) or how Amazon uses AI (Artificial Intelligence Intervention) to ...
Nokia 8.3 5G joins the 5G melee!
The hottest smartphone segment at present is the <$1000, Qualcomm SD765G based phones. So hot that a worldwide shortage of chips has delayed the excellent N...
Smartphone Q2 2020 – prices dive and 5G flounders
IDC has confirmed what we have known for some time. Smartphone Q2 2020 sales are down 7.9% to about 230 million handsets. Gartner predicts a 20.4% drop this ye...
TikTok times up
Got to love America. One day El Pres Trump says 'TikTok times up' citing that it is nothing more than a tool of the Chinese Communist Party to spy on US Citize...
Big Tech needs even bigger Digital Privacy regulation – ban data-harvesting
Big Tech – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (even little tech and throw Microsoft under the bus as well) could not exist in the same form today as d...
GetReminded – helpful tool or data-harvesting app?
GetReminded is a free Australian app designed to help you save money by reminding you of significant dates. This could be to avoid late fees by paying your bil...
Motorola real deals for September – be quick
When a reviewed product goes on sale, we try to let you know. Motorola real deals for September covers its e6s, g8-series, Edge 5G and the Motorola Razr 4G Fli...