| Hi John, Twice bitten by delays, but no longer shy, Bixby is now officially rolling out to US owners of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, despite Samsung stating three weeks ago that it still needed more “big data".
It seems that TVs just keep getting bigger and cheaper. Kogan, the rogue one, has introduced a massive 75-inch TV for under $2K with enough power to destroy the profits of an entire set of competitors, including one that wants to charge $40K for a similar size. Will we need to get bigger homes soon to accommodate our idiot boxes?
Credit card company Visa notes “more than half of Australians would prefer to use fingerprints, voice or retina scans in place of PINs when making payments and a quarter are ready for artificial intelligence to do their shopping.”
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims says there are encouraging signs that competition in the telecommunications sector is healthy and there is increasing room for a fourth player in the mobile network market. Should the regulator then declare roaming for the benefit of us consumers?
Apple has gone on the front foot as far as the passage of encryption laws in Australia goes, having already sent some of its people over in the last month to talk to government officials about the legislation.
New Zealand’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission has identified the retail telecommunications sector and rising levels of consumer complaints as one of its key targets for scrutiny in the coming 12 months. A familiar refrain from across the Tasman it seems. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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