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WD’s latest My Passport Wireless Pro external hard disk can cut the cable. It allows you to use either USB 3.0, or Wi-Fi AC, or plug in an SD card, or attach an OTG device. It runs on battery for much of the day, and you can even use it as a power bank.

The ABC has been caught out once again altering its online transcripts after it was reported to have omitted necessary details.

Qantas says it’s excited to be "gearing up for the rollout of in-flight Wi-Fi on about 100" of its domestic aircraft – fast and free!

Australian-owned tech brand LASER has launched its Wireless Wi-Fi Adaptor, which, at $99 ,turns any speaker system with "AUX in" into a wirelessly accessible and app-controlled modern speaker system.

Cybersecurity company Untangle has released open source firmware for consumer Wi-Fi routers that makes it possible to have plenty of visibility into traffic and also control it.

The Wi-Fi Alliance and its members have been working on plans for the co-existence of LTE-U and Wi-Fi, but major chipmaker Qualcomm isn’t happy.

Networking hardware vendor TP-Link has agreed to allow customers to install open-source firmware on its routers as part of a settlement with the US Federal Communications Commission.

Nokia’s 2016 Acquisition and Retention study series is ending with its final, detailed 13-page report on data allowances, voice, messaging and more.

Supporters of the ABC's science programme Catalyst and reporter Dr Maryanne Demasi have launched a petition in a bid to get the ban on the Wi-Fried episode lifted and the reporter returned to normal duties.

Virgin Australia has announced Wi-Fi for domestic Australian flights after a trial this year, but unlike Qantas which made a similar announcement in February, will Virgin’s Wi-Fi be free?

A live hack at the BlackBerry Security Summit provided a graphic demonstration of the perils of allowing unvetted connected devices onto your network.

Melbourne-based bus operator, SkyBus, which acquired Auckland Airbus in October last year, is using New Zealand’s Spark Digital, a subsidiary of telco Spark, to provide Wi-Fi to its Auckland Airport bus service.

Certain controversial statements made by the ABC's Media Watch host Paul Barry on Monday were missing from the transcript initially due to a "technical issue" with the corporation's website, the ABC's media manager Nick Leys told iTWire on Wednesday.

The ABC ran a segment on Lateline in 2009 which was similar to the Catalyst episode "Wi-Fried" but did not encounter anything like the ruckus which the latter has.

The ABC appears to be willing to hang its science reporter Dr Maryanne Demasi out to dry, following the retraction of an episode of its Catalyst programme, on the alleged link between Wi-Fi and cancer, which was aired in February.

The ABC has been forced to remove an episode of its Catalyst programme from its Internet archive, following an internal investigation that found it had not met the organisation's own editorial guidelines.

Australian telecommunications services provider Norwood Systems has sealed an agreement with US-based  Devicescape which will allow users of its services to view available Wi-Fi hotspots through an augmented reality interface and make Wi-Fi connected calls using Devicescape’s Wi-Fi hotspots.

Brisbane’s Ormiston College has deployed a high-capacity, high-speed Wi-Fi network from Ruckus Wireless across campus to support the learning curriculum for students and teachers.

Symantec’s Norton Wi-Fi Privacy VPN for iOS and Android is set to be launched globally. Here is the full launch video in Australia

The Turnbull Coalition government is promising, if re-elected, "continuous mobile coverage on trains between the Central Coast and Hornsby, as well as Wi-Fi at each train station".