Samsung in hot water down under
You can't swim with them you drongos
Australia’s consumer watch-dingo has come to the raw prawn and sued Samsung’s Aussie unit for misleading consumers by promoting water-resistant Galaxy smartphones as suitable to use in swimming pools and the surf.
Three Aussie banks sign up for IBM block chain
Wanting to digitise banking guarantees
Australia’s top three banks have agreed to partner with IBM and shopping mall owner Scentre Group to test blockchain technology to digitise bank guarantees.
Aussie AI designs a “turbocharged” flu vaccine
To be trailed in the US
An Aussie AI has designed a “turbocharged” flu vaccine which is about to be trialled in the United States.
Aussie boffins might have propped up Moore's Law
Metal-based field emission air channel transistors on the sheep dip
Boffins at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have come up with a metal-based field emission air channel transistor (ACT) which they think could maintain transistor doubling for another 20 years.
Aussie PM says Laws of Mathematics unimportant
The laws made up by Aussie politicians decide reality
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the laws of mathematics come second to the law of the land in a row over privacy and encryption.
Apple "lied" to customers about legal rights
Because it is such a cool, user-friendly company
Australia's consumer watchdog has carried out an investigation into the fruity, tax-dodging cult Apple and found that its staff lie to customers about their legal rights.
Apple sued for bricking phones
Fruity cargo cult revenged itself on DIY repairs
Fruity, Tax-Dodging cargo cult Apple has been charged with bricking the phones of users who dared to have their repairs done by those who did not wear blue shirts and had been blessed as Genii by the ghost of Steve Jobs.
Aussie banks moan that Apple is a bunch of drongos
"Intransigent, closed and controlling" and not fair dinkum
Three Australian banks have moaned to the country’s anti-trust watch dingo that the Apple Pay service is not fair dinkum.
Apple genii steal photos
Apple perverts use customers' snaps in sex game
Since part of the joy of owning an iPhone involves having to take it to an Apple store to be repaired, you will be relieved to know that Apple genii down under have been providing an extra special service to clients whose phone’s they repair.
Apple discriminates against Australians
Aparthied behind the Walled Garden
Fruity cargo cult Apple has decided to punish Australians for refusing to pay over the odds for its hardware and set up a sort of aparthied behind its walled garden for those who come from a land down under.