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Good times for 2nd hand smartphone buyers and sellers

Good times for 2nd hand smartphone buyers and sellers

Thanks to the recent release of Apple’s iPhone SE and the Galaxy S7 from Samsung it’s a great time to go shopping for a pre-loved mobile phone. eBay recently reported that Australians are stitting on an estimated $6.4 Billion in unused mobile handsets.   If you’re sitting on an old mobile phone or two it could help put some cash[Read More…]

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How Mouldy Bread could charge up your Phone

How Mouldy Bread could charge up your Phone

There’s not much you can do with mouldy bread…but in the future it could be useful to charge up your mobile phone. Scientists at the University of Dundee in Scotland have been playing around with some mouldy sandwiches and have discovered that rare red bread mould that has electrochemical properties.   So far they’ve had promising results using the mould to[Read More…]

The Shrinking iPhone

The Shrinking iPhone

Just when you thought smartphones couldn’t get any bigger…they didn’t. Available in stores from Thursday this week, the new iPhone SE will feature a 4-inch display, yet Apple has packed it with plenty features to ensure it’s best in class. For starters the iPhone SE will feature the same processor chip as the iPhone 6s and 6s plus, 12 megapixel camera with[Read More…]

Celebrating 10 years of "tweets" this year

Celebrating 10 years of “tweets” this year

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the very first “Tweet”. Twitter, the online social networking service which now carries over 500 million tweets per day, has 241 million monthly active users and support over 35 languages. So what did that first tweet say? Two years ago after Twitter turned 8  I spoke to Karen Stocks, the managing director of Twitter Australia.  She[Read More…]