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What is Gigabit LTE?

What is Gigabit LTE?

Just as the National Broadband Network appears to be making real progress with rollouts over the last couple of months, a mobile broadband device is being introduced this month that will outperform any NBN connection available today. Telstra (thanks to technology partners Qualcomm, Netgear and Ericsson) recently unveiled the world’s first gigabit class LTE mobile device to be commercially available. It’s[Read More…]

Protecting your new Smartphone or Tablet at School

Protecting your new Smartphone or Tablet at School

For students starting the new school year with a new tablet device or mobile phone here’s one piece of solid advice…make sure that device has some solid protection….and I’m not just talking about a good internet security App. When I spoke with Les Szabo from Tech21 on this topic and he had some some great advice for ‘covering up’ your new device.[Read More…]

Kingston's Year of the Rooster USB

Kingston’s Year of the Rooster USB

  Last Saturday marked the start of the Lunar new year and to mark the occasion Kingston has released a special issue USB flash drive. The “year of the rooster” 32 gigabyte flash drive is the latest in Kingston’s DataTraveler Chinese Zodiac series, is built with a metallic rose gold finish and comes in special red-themed box. Now Apart from[Read More…]

The Mystery ‘J’ in your email

Have you ever noticed that when some people send you an email the message ends with a random letter ‘J’? The good news is that it isn’t a typo…it’s supposed to be a smiley face emoticon, but thanks to a lingering bug in Microsoft’s outlook software the normal sequence of characters used to make a smiley face  😉  is converted[Read More…]

Is Apple Planning to Cut your Phone off in Cinemas?

Is Apple Planning to Cut your Phone off in Cinemas?

What will the new Theatre mode actually do in the iOS11 update coming later this year? There’s been some speculation that it will be based on a patent filed by Apple few years ago that used GPS technology to disable many of the devices features when located at a cinema, however likely to be somthing a bit less sinister sounding.[Read More…]