Microsoft has finally lost its mantle as email top dog. The battle for marketshare by the major email providers has seen Google’s Gmail leap ahead of Microsoft’s Outlook to become the most-used email service in Australia.

Could a kettle be the weak link in your network security? A live hack at the BlackBerry Security Summit provided a graphic demonstration of the perils of allowing unvetted connected devices onto your network.

Meanwhile BlackBerry continues to try hard to convince the world that it is still relevant. "We do have a plan" for our handset business, BlackBerry executive chairman and CEO John Chen told customers, analysts and media at the BlackBerry Security Summit in New York.

Microsoft is trying to push Windows 10 users to do their browsing with its new Edge browser, by sending them so-called Windows Tips that the browser is more efficient at power usage than either Firefox or Chrome.

Travelling around remote and isolated areas of Australia for sightseeing or for work often means no mobile phone network signal and the average Joe doesn’t have access to a satellite phone, let alone something which can actually transform the mobile into a satellite phone. Optus has attempted to address this issue.

Console gaming is far from dead despite Microsoft including high levels of Xbox support in its Windows 10. The new Xbox One S, 4K is coming.

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