The websites of Australian retailers lag behind those in a number of other countries when it comes to the time taken for the website to be ready for use by a prospective consumer.

The first Australian employment marketplace to embrace the skill of voice activated job searching with Amazon Alexa is SEEK, with company Reviews, job search skills & weekly employment market updates also available through Alexa.

The old argument over what came first — the chicken or the egg — has been regurgitated in a somewhat different way by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield. Only his arguments revolve around speed and the cost of NBN subscriptions.

Google's Home invasion into the domestic smart speaker market boomed over the holidays, with over a million 'Actions' your Google Assistant can now help you with.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement and regulatory agency The Commerce Commission is resuming a study to consider what, if any, changes are needed to the telecommunications sector to better promote competition.

The Commonwealth Bank has launched a chatbot named Ceba to help customers with more than 200 banking tasks. At the moment, it is available to about 20% of NetBank customers and will be rolled out more broadly in coming months.

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