When Sony introduced its Walkman portable music player in 1979 I bet they couldn’t have imagined that 35 years later users would be grooving to tunes on their walkman device underwater…but that’s what they’ve done. The latest W series Walkman is a 4-gigabyte MP3 player that’s waterproof enough to take swimming and Sony demonstrated this by letting the Australian Synchronized[Read More…]
You can already listen to Tech Daily multiple times on day on Geelong’s 93.9 Bay FM, but this morning i joined morning crew hosts Hayden and Karen to talk about the launch of the new iPhone6 models and the release of the iOS 8 operating system from Apple. I discovered that Hayden went about the iOS 8 update the hard[Read More…]
As news of hacked celebrity iCloud accounts surfaces today many are wondering if storing their private information in ‘the cloud’ is safe. The answer is yes…and no. In the case of the latest hacking it doesn’t appear that Apple’s security measures have been breached, unlike what happened to Sony and Adobe in the past which resulted in leaked customer information[Read More…]
Want to keep your wife/girlfriend happy? Throw away the power tools and get busy with the cake mixer. According the results of a new scientific study by home appliance brand Sunbeam, women are happier watching their guy in the Kitchen than doing the usual ‘bloke’ chores around the house. The experiement monitored 20 real life Australian couples as the male partners performed a[Read More…]
TVs, home security cameras even refrigerators…so many of appliances around the home are now connected to the internet but are these smart devices safe online? Trend Micro Australia says that the devices you really need to protect online are those that store personal information. I spoke to Tim Falinski from Trend Micro Australia about the Smartification of our homes and[Read More…]
