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Australia's largest private e-commerce company consolidates multiple cloud workloads with Google Cloud to streamline infrastructure and enable faster, simpler adoption of AI for its customers

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo has taken its first steps into the tablet market, announcing the launch of its Pad Air tablet — yes, the name does ring a bell — in the Australian market on Monday.

The remote control for a range of ring lights marketed by Cygnett has been recalled for safety reasons.

Chinese smartphone maker vivo, one of the three main brands owned by B.B.K. Electronics, has announced discounts on some of its models from 1 April as an Easter promotion.

No, a computer, tablet or smartphone isn't part of the CHOICE back-to-school essentials list, but instead, good old fashioned things like HB and coloured pencils, pencil sharpeners, ballpoint and coloured pens, glue sticks, exercise books and more, with Officeworks the clear price winner at less than $22.

With Apple's latest smartwatches now available, Oppo's coming soon, and more smartwatches than you can poke a stick at online, even from Kogan with its own branded models, there's plenty of choice, but with Fitbit now making its 2020 range available in store, a lot of its fans will be very happy.

Chinese smartphone maker vivo, which so far has not made its presence felt in Australia, has announced that it would be launching a 5G model, the X50 Pro, as part of the all-new vivo X-series of flagship devices.

Amazon is promising "tens of thousands of products available at discounted prices" in its most epic Prime Day shopping event yet.

Although eBay has already had its giant sale last month, it is competing with Amazon's Prime Day sale with a stack of fantastic deals and offers of its own.

Microsoft's newest Lumias: the 435 at $129 and 532 at $149 in Australia, in dual-SIM variants too. Will they seriously shake up the smartphone market?

If there's a powerbank under your Christmas tree, make sure it isn't this one.

The R-Rated GTA V has recently been re-released for the next-gen PS4 and Xbox One consoles and has been taken down from shelves at Target and Kmart following a Change.org petition which claims the game is violent against women, but is this the case and will Big W and others fold next? Take Two and the IGEA respond.

Amazon has announced that its hugely popular Kindle Paperwhite e-reader is now available down under at Dick Smith and Big W stores.

An analysis by Borland shows that a number of well-known Australian web stores failed to keep up with the amount of traffic they generated during the post-Christmas period.

There's an online store in Australia selling an HDMI cable "with anti-virus protection."  What will they think of next?

Although some are excited to finally see Amazon's soon-to-be-superseded B&W Kindle 3 models set for sale from month's end in Big W, Dick Smith and Woolworths, if you already have a tablet, why swindle yourself by spending yet more on outdated Kindle hardware?

With new Kindle models on the way soon, Amazon is clearing out stocks of older models by lowering prices in the US and finally selling them in Australian retail stores. It might be tempting for some, but with new models around the corner, this is one e-book whose cover you should judge carefully.

While Amazon has been happy to sell its Kindle ebook reader to Australian customers, it hasn't been available locally. That's about to change: the Kindle will soon be available at Woolworths, Big W and Dick Smith Electronics.

Retail giant Woolworths will provide contactless payment facilities at stores operating under all of its brands.