Consumers impacted by Australia’s recent bushfires can now receive dedicated assistance with their unresolved phone and internet issues from the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

Customers of Telstra and its subsidiary broadband provider Belong, that upgraded to higher-speed NBN plans will be proactively contacted if they are not getting the maximum speed available under the plan.

Smart watches have come of age, with the latest being a sub-$200 model called the MOVETIME Family Watch, letting parents stay in touch with 4G calls, video calls, photo sharing, messaging and GPS tracking.

Across the Tasman, New Zealand telecommunications retail service providers generated the highest number of complaints under the Fair Trading Act to the country’s competition regulator, The Commerce Commission.

Samsung is set to discover how strong it is with the force, and whether both sides of the force will make a forceful impact on sales of its new Galaxy Note10+ special edition, modelled on Kylo Ren and the "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" movie.

Researchers from Flinders University say new fossils of an ancient snake which has legs shed light on how they came to lose their legs.

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