NBN Co is boosting fixed wireless broadband speeds on the national broadband network to 100Mbps up and 40Mbps down - double the existing maximum speeds.

Kiwi cloud accounting software company Xero has thrown down the gauntlet to Australian arch-rival MYOB, claiming to have doubled subscriptions in the past two years to surpass the one million subscriber mark globally.

Sam Varghese says Google's attitude to the controversy over its ads appearing on racist, anti-Semitic and anti-women videos is not surprising: the company has made some comforting noises but essentially it has given all those who pulled their ads the collective finger.

Bixby, the new virtual assistant present on the Samsung Galaxy S8 mobile which was released on Thursday, defaults to a female voice in the US, but uses a male voice in the Asia Pacific region. Is there a reason?

Microsoft’s Surface Studio, a 28” "tab-top" touch workspace, and Studio Dial are now in Australia. Together they are devices that can potentially game-change how the creative industries work – combining a touch screen, high-precision digitiser and pen, with huge computing power.

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