Apps
CellOPark threatens legal action in ‘commercial dispute’ after email confusion
Parking app company CellOPark has promised to “take all steps, including legal action” after confusing emails were sent to customers.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt and William Davis
Latest
Confusing parking app emails leave drivers going round in circles
CellOPark users have been caught up in an apparent internal stoush within the company, whose app allows people to pay for parking with their smartphones.
- by Rosanna Ryan
Exclusive
Social media
Australians like banning teens from social media. They just don’t think it’ll work
The findings highlight a risk for Labor and scepticism among voters as Albanese heads to the next election pursuing a broader tech crackdown.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Investigation
Trends
The ‘Uber Eats of fitness’: What your $10 gym class is really costing
Fitness app ClassPass makes booking group classes such as Pilates more convenient, and often cheaper. But studio owners say it’s killing the local industry.
- by Melissa Singer
Analysis
Competition
Will new competition laws make your digital life cheaper?
An EU-style regime aims to stop big tech locking down their platforms. But we are still a long way from making smartphones a truly open ecosystem, like home computers.
- by Tim Biggs
The ‘death clock’ that predicts the day you’ll die
The AI was trained on a dataset of more than 1200 life expectancy studies with some 53 million participants. Its answers may well be of interest to economists and money managers.
- by Alex Tanzi
Tech giants face $50 million fines in app store battle
Just days after banning under 16s from social media, the federal government is now targeting tech companies’ app stores amid competition fears.
- by Shane Wright
To stop screen addiction, this school will give out phones. But there’s a catch
As families struggle to manage their children’s screen obsessions, Pymble Ladies’ College has devised a ground-breaking way to help.
- by Jordan Baker
How would a social media ban actually work?
Almost a quarter of children aged eight to 10 use social media, as do half of 13-year-olds. How would new laws banning them from apps actually keep them off?
- by Paul Sakkal, David Swan and Tim Biggs
On Telegram, a violent preview of what may unfold during and after the US election
Far-right groups like the Proud Boys are revving people up to fight should Trump lose, with some promising “to get you trained and ready for election day”.
- by Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano, Aaron Krolik and Steven Lee Myers
Exclusive
Telecommunications
Telcos in talks to roll out ‘SMS on steroids’
Telstra, Optus and TPG are in talks to implement an SMS replacement that could slash the rate of spam messages.
- by David Swan
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