Giant Chinese online retailer, Alibaba, says consumers in China purchased goods to the value of US$7 billion in the first two hours of this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival held on Friday, exceeding the value of purchases in the entire 24 hours of the 2013 shopping festival.

Optus has sealed a deal with wholesale television and satellite equipment distributor, NAS Australia, which it says will expand the distribution of its SatSleeve product range in regional and remote areas of Australia.

Dr. Tobias Feakin has been appointed Australia’s first ambassador for Cyber Affairs.

Take that Apple iPad Pro or Microsoft Surface Pro with 1024 level of pressure sensitivity. Wacom, best known for its digitisers and tablets in the graphic design and CAD fields, has released two new MobileStudio Pro tablets with 8192 pen pressure levels.

Perhaps the most interesting feature of Windows as a Service is how new features keep being added – for free. Windows 10 Build 14965 is coming soon.

We all know the Achilles heel of iPhones and Apple Watch is their need to be fed. Belkin has a 6700mAh battery power bank that will warm an Apple Aficionados heart.

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