Acer updates its Swift notebookt line with new models: Swift 5 and Swift 3.



The Bose QuietComfort 45 is out and delivers the long-lasting comfort and astonishingly immersive noise-cancelling you expect from the Bose name. But it’s not an impulse buy, priced between $450 and $499.95 depending where you look. Happily, Bose brings the goods with smart features, long battery life, and absolutely all-day operation and physical enjoyment.

Another Australian tech company is set to fall into foreign hands, as service-based systems integration specialist Convergint intends to acquire Australian security management provider Prosys Services.

If you like'd to beam more cashback rewards into your life, then social payments app Beem It is the payments upgrade to scan with your sensors, as its new rewards feature gives customers the "potential" to earn cashback on their spend in-store or online at 500 merchants across Australia, including Breadtop Bakery, Ecco Shoes, Forever New, Luggage Direct, The Iconic, 1001 Optical and many more.

The screen on the Android 11 Astro Slide phone slides up (hence the name) to reveal a full-sized keyboard in a format similar to a very small laptop.

Suunto makes smart sports watches, dive computers and precision instruments, and it has made its first foray into Australian motorsport, with its stellar sports watches added to Penrite's high performance program.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire