Harman Kardon Bags Best Music Server Award The Digital Media Centre from Harman Kardon has just been awarded by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) as the Best Music Server for 2008-2009.
Telstra Working On Secret Fibre To The Home Project Telstra is almost certainly working on a “secret” fibre to the home (FttH) network, regardless of whether it wins the government NBN project, telecommunications analyst Paul Budde claims.
Microsoft Phones, Xbox and Music Player In Trouble Microsoft who don’t believe that Australia's are worthy of a great deal of their consumer technology products are now attempting to resurrect the image of their Zune music player which is struggling up against the Apple iPod.
Sony Spends $1.2B Buying Content Sony has moved to consolidate their position in the content market by buying out for $600M the share of Bertelsmann they did not already own.
Google Street View Launches in Oz Google has today launched the Street View function for Google Maps, allowing users to view and navigate 360 degree street-level imagery of Australia’s cities, town, regional and remote areas.
Primitive Infrastructure Stifles Internet Speed Australia’s lack of fiberoptic infrastructure could be seen as a stumbling block to taking on a new innovation developed by Australian researchers out of the University of Sydney.
JB Hi Fi Never Offered TiVo Media Claims Wrong Claims that retailers in particular JB Hi Fi have knocked back distribution of the new TiVo are rubbish a senior Channel Seven executive has told ChannelNews. They also said that no other retailers other than Harvey Norman had been offered the new $699 TiVo unit which goes on sale at Harvey Norman on the 29th of July exclusively for 1 month only.
Telstra Claims QR Codes Will Change Advertising Industry Telstra customers will soon have software downloaded free to their mobile phones, through QR coding technology, giving them quick access to websites and mobile content via special barcodes.
Free Foxtel HD+ With Samsung TV Coming Samsung is set to bundle the new Foxtel Full HD+ set top box with their new range of flat panel TV's. The deal is in response to Sony’s Playstation PS3 deal which will see the Company give away 35,000 PS3 gaming/Blu ray consoles.
Aussies Spend $100M On Digital Music According to a recent study, Australian music lovers will spend more than $100 million on music downloads this year and in five years time.
60 Minutes Commits Broadcasting Suicide The Nine Networks 60 Minutes program is in strife with the Australian Communications and Media Authority who found that they had breached regulatory safeguards for reports about suicide. They also found that Nine failed to adequately warn viewers about the potentially distressing material prior to the segment.
Ninemsn Boss Jumps Ship - Or Was He Pushed? Hands up who wants to be an executive at PBL? Certainly not Tony Faure, the CEO of ninemsn, the Microsoft and PBL Media joint venture, who resigned from his position today.
Digital Radio Getting Set For Big Launch It looks like time to throw out your old analog radio – digital radio is coming in 7 months – like it or not. And according to Joan Warner, Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Radio Australia, digital radio will place Australia at the forefront of world broadcasting.
Telstra Takes On EBay Telstra subsidiary Sensis has launched a new Australian online auction site aimed squarely at eBay, amid the furore over eBay Australia's controversial new insistence that most future payments can be made only by eBay's PayPal system.
Local TV Content Continues To Rise Calling all unemployed local actors, as it seems the jobs are there for the taking as all metropolitan commercial TV stations met the requirements of the Australian Content Standard and Children’s Television Standards in 2007, according to figures released by the Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA).
Government To Review Online Safety The Federal government is set to review online safety, with Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, announcing the Cyber-Safety Consultative Working Group as part of the Government's $125.8 million program to improve cyber-safety for children.
EXCLUSIVE: Nine Win EPG Copyright Appeal Against Ice TV Australia is back in the technology dark ages after the Federal Court ruled in favour of Channel Nine in their appeal against Ice TV who for the last two years have produced an electronic TV program guide for media centre and set top box manufacturers which Nine said breached their copyright.
OfferMe An Alternative To eBay Buying online is about to get a lot simpler, as an upcoming website called OfferMe.com.au will take on the likes of eBay by allowing the buyer to take control.
Scarlet Coming To A TV Screen Soon Scarlet is set to be a controversial topic soon and it has nothing to do with the availability of Captain Scarlet and more than 260 hours of archive programmes from UK production house ITV that will soon be available on Apple's iTunes store.
Sony's Future Hinges On New Software & Content Leading edge software and a brand new online portal that will deliver content seamlessly to devices is set to be a major part of Sony’s future with a brand new Playstation console and a new generation of wireless TV’s, speakers and sound and vision devices set to be rolled out during the next 18 months.
Online Music Boss Stripped Bare By Prime High-profile digital media operator Domenic Carosa current chairman and treasurer of Australia's Internet Industry Association yesterday found himself out of his main job as CEO of Destra, the online music and entertainment company he co-founded in the 1990s.
An Apple A Day Keeps The Online Music Rivals At Bay As yet another new music online service is launched, the folks over at Apple are happier than pigs in swill with how well iTunes is going and how badly the competition is faring.
Fake Foxtel Exposed Police in several states have seized hundreds of illegal Foxtel set top box cards with some investigators now man were claiming that there are between 50 to 100,000 illegal cards in use. Yesterday, two Victorian men were charged with making and selling illegal Foxtel decoders.
Hollywood Takes On Optus Optus has found itself in hot water, as various Hollywood movie studios have launched legal action against the company for breach of contract.
Social Networking Sites Recommended For Employees Want to hire bright young workers with exceptional talent? It might help if your company allows access to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, according to new research by law firm Deacons.
Digital Music Sales Growing Fast A report from US-based market-research firm In-Stat says that digital sales will account for 40 per cent of all music purchases worldwide by 2012.
Online Gaming Under Threat Social networks and online games are the new hiding places of today's increasingly mature hacking community, warns Symantec in its latest six-monthly Internet Security Threat Report.
Patrol Boat On 9 Springs Leaks Seven has announced that its show, Border Security, was yesterday's number 1 most-watched programme for total viewers and 25-54s, 'annihilating' Nine's Power of 10 and Ten's So You Think You Can Dance.
What Do Women Do Better Than Men? What do women do better than men? Buy gadgets apparently. A new research report has revealed that female Geeks are burning a path to consumer electronics retailers in droves.They are also taking the lead over men in their use of certain technologies including gaming, watching and streaming TV shows, burning DVD’s and visiting social network web sites according to a new Women and Digital Lifestyles report recently released by Solutions Research Group.
KaZaa Case Back In Court After Music Labels Dropped Charges A man who was sued when his daughter was caught downloading music from the Australian KaZaa peer to peer web site has gone back to court in an effort to get his legal fees paid.
IPTV Operator RealTime Goes Bust Melbourne based IPTV operator RealTime Media has been placed into administration. The Company that was trying to establish a movie download and rental business is looking for capital investment via the appointed administrator Ferrier Hodgson. At this stage debts are not known.
PS3 Owners To Benefit From New Sony Internet Blu-ray Titles New Blu-ray titles with built in Internet interactivity is set to be rolled out by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on April 8 according to the Hollywood Reporter. This technology can be used by Sony PS3 owners.
Sony & Microsoft To Roll Out New IP Gaming Consoles After several days of internal consideration Microsoft executives have said that they will not be producing a Blu ray Xbox 360. Instead the Company is working on a brand new gaming and entertainment solution that will replace the current Xbox 360.
Foxtel Says Size Is Everything Pay TV stations Foxtel and Austar, in conjunction with Multi Channel Network, today announced a new digital television audience measurement system (AMS) which is designed to radically change the way TV viewing is studied and reported.
Google Boss Slams Microsoft Warns Don't Act Like Them The boss of CEO, Eric Schmidt has slammed Microsoft calling them an anticompetitive organisation he has also said that Companies who want to protect their brand should “not act like Microsoft”.
Google Announce New HQ and Google Transit Google Australia has announced that they will establish a new 6 star development centre in Sydney. They have also announced that they will role out their Google Transit technology in Perth for use with Google Maps. This will be the first time that the technology will have been seen in the Southern Hemisphere.
Who Has The Most Popular Web Sites In Australia? Australian consumers are flocking to web sites to access information according to Hitwise who today released their top web site list for 2008. In the consumer electronics market he big winners were Sony, Dell, Symantec, Vodaphone and online web site DSE.
Big Drama At Derwent Howard As Future Titles Exit BREAKING NEWS: A massive split has taken place at IT publisher Derwent Howard with Karl Penn the Group Publishing Director being asked to leave the premises immediately. He is set to establish a Future Media linked company and has taken titles with him.
More Shoppers Purchasing Online Consumers are getting more comfortable with the idea of online shopping, as more than 86 percent of the world’s online population have used the Internet to make a purchase, according to a Nielsen Online Survey.
Frank Foxtel Email Reveals Database Woes An frank email sent by Foxtel Corporate Affairs has revealed the problems the Company is facing in the move to a new customer database.
Foxtel "Call Storm" Customer Database Down For 4 Days Foxtel has admitted that they have had database issues when they migrated a new customer service database over to handle new Foxtel services, however they do claim that no records are missing. However they have said that tey have had to bring in over 100 staff to handle what they describe as "Customer Call Storms".
Foxtel Loses Thousands Of Records A major upgrade of the Foxtel pay TV customer database has seen thousands of customer profiles and information totally wiped resulting in consumers who call with a technical problem being told that they don’t exist.
Samsung Launch Web Viewing TV Box Samsung has introduced its first set-top box - the new internet-powered See'N'Search device designed to allow users to integrate web functionality into their TV viewing experience. The device which was shown at this year's CES could be seen in Australia by mid year.
Foxtel To Sell EPG Advertising Foxtel, the TV Network that started life telling the world that it would be advertising free, will market its electronic program guide (EPG) as a premium advertising medium as it moves to a HD set top box and new EPG service that will include re-transmission of the Seven free to air network.
Seven Cuts Deal With Foxtel After months of lobbying the Seven Network to join its pay TV service, Foxtel will finally be able to offer its subscribers access to channel Seven after the two companies announced a partnership today that will see Foxtel retransmit Seven programs – which is unusual since Seven has been preparing to launch its TiVo digital video recorder for some time.
Google Knows Where The Movies Are At Looking for movie schedules has never been easier; thanks to Google’s new movie onebox service that tells you when and where the latest movie is shown.
Blu-ray Sales Slide Following Warner Backing Leaked sales data for Blu-ray and HD DVD sales reveals that sales of Blu-ray players have strangely slipped since movie house Warner Bro announed that they would only support Blu-ray. The new numbers exclude PS3 console sales.
Yahoo Gives Microsoft Two Finger Salute The Yahoo board has given Microsoft a two finger salute in rejecting their $50 Billion dollar bid to buy the online portal.
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