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A new patent application from Apple describes a "smart dock" that gives Siri a permanent place in the home, according to AppleInsider. The dock would allow a docked iOS device to continually listen to audio in order to activate for voice commands, such as in the case of Siri usage or similar. ...

A new rumour claims Apple are investigating the possibility of a 12.9-inch iPad with a 2K or 4K display. According to the rumour, Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn has made several prototypes of a larger-screened iPad, both with extremely high-res displays. If the rumour turns out to be true, we could ...

By Dave Bullard

$1574 / Pioneer
PROS:Multitude of connection options; satnav
CONS:Some iOS instability
RATING: 4/5


In conversation with Pioneer Australia’s Daniele Mariani a few months ago (when writing the review of Pioneer’s App Radio Mode for the July 2013 issue), I mentioned how I’d like to install a double-DIN AV system in my Mazda MX-5 NC but couldn’t because it had an integral Bose audio system.

Mariani, who is the company’s car entertainment product marketing manager, immediately pointed out that I could just replace the central dash fascia with one that could hold the double-DIN (one of the bigger, square head-units rather than a smaller, rectangular ...

By Christiane Reher

There are 23 million phones that could be recycled in Australia according to a report from not-for-profit recycler MobileMuster and the number is still increasing as Australians tend to keep their old phones even though they have a new phone.

The report believes the main time for Australians to buy a new phone is during the summer season sale or ...

The latest patent granted to Apple describes a method for adding depth to iPhone photos via the capture of stereoscopic image data. It's a similar method used to give the 3D effect on the Nintendo 3DS console —*it uses two separate images, combining them to produce a single stereoscopic image. Seems ...

For reasons known only to them, Apple has purchased social analytics company Topsy for a reported $200 million. It seems like an unusual purchase for Apple, seeing as they've never really been about the social aspect: their only foray into social media with Ping was, I think you'll agree, a complete ...

Amazon has released a new ad for its Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, in which a noticeably British voice talks about the iPad Air, while an American one counters with claims about the Kindle. It’s widely believed the British voice is Amazon making fun of Apple’s most famous English employee, Sir Jonathan Ive.

First, the iPad Air is held up and ...

For World AIDS Day, Apple dressed up their Apple Retail locations in the colour red, as they've done for previous years. Besides raising funds for AIDS awareness and research through the sale of special PRODUCT(RED) versions of iPods and various cases, I also think the PRODUCT(RED) versions ...

In Australia, appellations of the colour Black usually denote something awful – particularly catastrophic bushfire events. Black Saturday was the most recent of these, when 173 people died in Victoria on 7 February 2009.

And Black Friday refers to the devastating bushfires that claimed the lives of 71 people in the same state in 1939. Other events that use that title also have distressing connotations – there’s the 1881 Eyemouth Black Friday disaster in which 189 fishermen died. The Black Friday of 1910 referred to a women’s suffrage event when out of 300 protesting women at the UK’s Houses ...