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• Review: Sony Xperia XZ

  

  In 2016, Sony opted to change their flagship lineup of smartphones from the Xperia Z to the Xperia X. Having announced a slew of Xperia X devices at Mobile World Congress in February. The company announced the Xperia X Compact and Xperia XZ at IFA ...

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• iPhone 7 Emerges Victorious In The Wake Of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Cancellation

  

  With Samsung’s official cancellation of its Galaxy Note 7, the wind seems to be blowing in favor of Apple. The Cupertino-based tech giant has an excellent chance to establish its reputation as the leading smartphone of the year with the recently unveiled iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The move to cancel the Galaxy Note 7 will bring Samsung weeks of bad news, millions of returns to process, and a massive fiscal cost to recall and eliminate the flammable phablets. The cancellation of the Galaxy Note..

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• Hello Moto – I'm back

  

  Moto wants to be seen as innovative, quirky and cool. After several years in the wilderness going from Motorola to Google, to Lenovo, it believes it has regained its mojo – sorry Moto! Of course, it never lost it, nor abandoned Australia, as Danny Adamopoulos, senior director of Product Operations APAC/India, said in an exclusive interview with iTWire following this morning’s launch of its new Moto Z, Moto Z Play, and MotoMods. Adamopoulos has been with Moto since 2002. He said, “We were one ..

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• Mac Sales Declining Faster than Windows as PC Shipments Slow Down Further

  

  The Mac lineup has reached an extensive sinking point. Sales for Apple’s laptop lineup are constantly declining and according to the latest research data for Q3 2016 from Gartner and IDC, things are not looking positive for Cupertino giant. Worldwide Mac shipments have yet again faced a substantial decline, although, this time by a whopping 13%. They constituted nearly 7.4 percent of the worldwide PC market with 5.7 Million units, down from 8.1% last year. The crucial rationale isn’t because cu..

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• Foreign intelligence responsible for BoM cyber attack: report

  

  Foreign intelligence responsible for BoM cyber attack: report Posted October 12, 2016 23:58:21 A federal investigation has found a foreign intelligence service was responsible for last year's cyber attack on the Bureau of Meteorology.The investigation also concluded that several other federal government agencies had been compromised.Tobias Feakin, the head of the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, discusses the findings wit..

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• New Australian partnership to focus on truck platooning

  

  Truck platooning — road freight vehicles travelling in a tight convoy, co-ordinated by vehicle-to-vehicle communications — is set to come to Australia, with the West Australian government backing fleet trials in the state.The Australian Driverless Vehicle Initiative (ADVI), US company Peloton Technology, which develops connected vehicle technology, have partnered to examine the potential efficiency and safety benefits the technology could offer the Australian road freight industry.ADVI was inst..

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• Vodafone conducts live 5G trial

  

  Vodafone conducts live 5G trial with nokia, heralding the potential of new technology.MOBILE service provider Vodafone Australia conducted a live public 5G demonstration Wednesday in conjunction with Nokia and the University of Technology, Sydney.The next generation technology is not expected to be rolled out for years to come but it holds the promise of supporting a dramatically more digital dependent world. The future of 5G was described as a fundamental leap forward by Vodafone Chief Technolo..

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• Microsoft Hololens Development Edition: Australian Price And Release Date

  

  The Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition and Microsoft HoloLens Commercial Suite is now available for pre-order in Australia, exclusively from the Microsoft Store. Here’s all the details. Devices will start to ship in late November — with the Development Edition costing $4,369 and the Commercial Suite costing $7,269. The Hololens is the world’s first self-contained holographic computer, and Microsoft is experiencing interest from developers and commercial customers and partners around the gl..

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• Tile's Small Everything-Trackers Are Now On Sale In Australia

  

  Tile's Small Everything-Trackers Are Now On Sale In Australia Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. VIDEO Tile is a great idea. It’s a tiny, Bluetooth-blasting white square that hooks up to an app on your phone and constantly pings it its location. When you leave the Tile — or whatever it’s attached to — somewhere, your phone realises, and when you go to look for it you’ll have the power of the internet and Google Maps to help you remember. If that sounds good, then great — you can n..

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