Technology

Ride sharing company Uber and accommodation sharing online outfit Airbnb have been hailed to appear before the Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance tomorrow.

SYDNEY - Vodafone Australia says it's planning to launch Voice over 4G (VolTE) services later this year. And that will be followed by Voice over Wi-Fi, running natively through smartphones...

Apple has purchased UK-based artificial-intelligence start-up VocalIQ in what appears to be an effort to make its virtual assistant Siri sound more natural.

Facebook revenue grew 39 percent providing evidence that it is wooing deep-pocketed big brands to take the lion's share of the fast-growing mobile advertising market.

SYDNEY - Redback Technologies, a start-up specialising in electricity storage systems for solar power installations, has teamed up with UniQuest, the University of Queensland's commercialisation arm, to research and develop...

The IT sector has largely welcomed Malcolm Turnbull's decision to reinstate innovation into the industry-and-science portfolio and offer better access to the start-up community. As reported (CDN yesterday), Turnbull has...

A plan to spread a free Wi-Fi network across Canberra has fallen well behind schedule due to light pole problems.

SAN FRANCISCO - Dell is making use of technology inherited when it bought Boomi in 2010 to create new "integration packs" designed to merge data between applications in the cloud.

Electric-car maker Tesla Motors sold 11,580 vehicles in Q3, a 49 percent increase over the same period a year earlier.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained a court order temporarily barring the CEO of an ASX-listed communications service provider from leaving Australia as it investigates what it says...