While much of the rest of the world is stuck in the grip of financial woes, the Asia-Pacific region appears to be powering ahead, at least in terms of PC sales. That’s the word from market research analysts Gartner, who believe the region’s computer sales growth will exceed 20% for 2010 and total some 114million [...]
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It’s been threatening to happen for much of the last ten years but a small region in western Victoria has become the first area in Australia to lose its analog television service. June 30 saw the first analog TV transmitters shut down in a process that will be repeated all over the country during the [...]
May 28 is here, which means that Australia joins eight other countries around the world with all-night sleep-out geeks eager to get their hands on Apple’s latest wondertoy, the iPad. As news reports have filtered through all day about snaking queues, high-fives and stellar sales figures, one question to be asked is that beyond those [...]
Apple’s popular iPad launches in Australia and eight other countries this Friday. The tablet device, which will sell from $629, is however likely to be in very short supply after Apple’s preorder website was rushed, resulting in its initial cache of units being snapped up in two days. Customers who pre-ordered their iPads on May [...]
Research analysts at RBC Capital Markets expect Apple to ship an estimated 176,000 iPads in Australia during 2010. The estimate is contained in a report on The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog by John Paczkowski. The blog story details Apple’s US division is currently shipping around twice as many iPads (around 200,000 a [...]