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Hands on: Nest Protect smart smoke/ carbon monoxide alarm
An alarm which speaks to you before it screeches at you, Nest Protect is designed to keep its cool in a crisis.
An alarm which speaks to you before it screeches at you, Nest Protect is designed to keep its cool in a crisis.
If your home is a wireless warzone then automatically shifting gadgets between bands, in search of the best performance, might create as many problems as it solves.
With the nationwide rollout half over, NBN and its cohorts finally concede they need to do more to help Australians trapped in broadband hell.
It's been a dry winter, but the spring downpours are set to trigger the seasonal ADSL slowdown as Telstra's pits flood – drowning the country's ageing copper network.
Typical home upload speeds of less than 1 Mbps mean that bandwidth-thirsty foreign smart home gear is choking in Australian homes.
Scammers are demanding payment in Bitcoin or they'll release video of you watching porn, but these wannabe blackmailers haven't really caught you with your pants down.
The Alienware OLED 13 R3 laptop takes portable gaming to the next level.
Nest's streaming cameras offer a great way to keep an eye on things back at the ranch, assuming your home broadband connection is up to the task.
With exquisite picture quality and a striking design, Sony has put forward a worthy contender for the OLED television crown.
For years we've been encouraged to dream up weak passwords which are easy for machines to crack, concedes the guy who wrote the book on creating passwords.
When will Aussies retire their home phone? Maybe when the mobile networks deliver on their promises.
Digital hipsters will tell you that optical discs are already dead, but Ultra HD streaming on a Friday night is still a pipe dream for many Australians.
In another blow to NBN's reputation, Vodafone is using NBN installation disasters as a marketing tool to promote its upcoming home broadband service with 4G LTE failover.
When almost everyone has a mobile phone, why are more than half of Australian homes still paying for a landline?
Venerable digital music player nears extinction, as nano and shuffle models are discontinued.
A simple insurance policy should a tech disaster strike your home, Google's free cloud sync tool has some great new features.
While it helps tackle wireless blackspots around your home, Google WiFi has an Achilles' heel which could be a deal-breaker for many NBN homes.
Even with the NBN rollout Australia's fixed-line broadband can be unreliable, which means you need a mobile insurance policy if you can't afford to be offline.
Telstra's new international roaming day pass looks good on paper but overseas travellers need to read the fine print.
Google's smart benchtop speaker and mesh WiFi network go on sale in Australia on Thursday, staking Google's claim in the simmering smart home war with Amazon and Apple.
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