Cementing itself as a clear industry leader, Sweden’s Spotify accounts for 86 per cent of the entire on-demand streaming market. This could all be set to change with tech giant Apple to launch a new music streaming service, Apple Music, at the ned of the month. Going head-to-head with Spotify, Apple will offer its on-demand streaming service at the matching price of US$9.99 per month. The Times reported the biggest advantage Apple Music will have is that it will be automatically installed when iPhone users upgrade to iOS 8.4 later this month, while iPhones sold with that software on board will have the app…
Author: Alex Doust
What is the greatest thing since sliced bread? Getting that combination of delicious ingredients in between it perfected. Despite no-one actually knowing why today is crowned with the legendary title, it’s International Burger Day. Happy International Burger Day 🍔! Like we needed an excuse to head down to RIBS & BURGERS 😉#InternationalBurgerDay pic.twitter.com/ZCrh18H7Bx — FrankAustralia (@FrankAustralia) May 28, 2015 @chris_hagen every day is #InternationalBurgerDay — Lewis Shields (@lewisshields) May 28, 2015 While most of us don’t need an international day of celebration as an excuse to eat the beloved burger, there’s no doubt we’ll use it. Whether you enjoy…
Eat on two dollars a day for five days, raise funds and help end extreme poverty. Add a few hunger pains, repetitive spaghetti and canned tomato meals, and a caffeine or chocolate withdrawal itch, and that’s the Live Below The Line Challenge in a nutshell. A group of 30 from the student leadership program ELEVATE at the University of Wollongong is taking on the challenge of living below the poverty line to raise funds and awareness of homelessness. Proceeds go directly to Oaktree, a charity that woaks to fight extreme poverty in Australia. But many more experience this as a part of daily life. In…
With a simple press of a button over 4,500 homes and businesses in Wollongong and Corrimal are now connected to the National Broadband Network. The official switch-on event was held at Wollongong-based digital marketing agency Internetrix. The event was attended by local industry, community and government organisations. NBN Co. said the Illawarra is now one of the most connected regions in the country, with more than 18,000 homes and businesses now able to access the service. The compay said the NBN allowed download speeds of more than 95 megabytes per second. It said this is an upgrade from the former 15…
Bowls is sport perceived, by many, to be for older people. Taking part in the Bowls World Cup at Warilla, 18-year-old bowling champion Jamie-Lee Worsnop is just one of many young competitors out to prove the greens are not only a grey zone. Worsnop has been bowling since she was 10 at St John’s Park Bowling Club in Western Sydney. Learning under NSW State junior coach and selector Sharyn Renshaw, Worsnop has established herself among the lawn bowls elite. She broke the record for the youngest person to take out the Australian Indoor Bowling championship in August last year, and…
Gold Coast enforcer Greg Bird has been slammed with an eight-game ban killing any hope of a State of Origin appearance. The NRL reported that the judiciary deliberated for just nine minutes before they upheld Bird’s grade two dangerous throw charge for his lifting tackle on Kiwi winger Jason Nightingale in the Kangaroos’ Test loss on Sunday. Bird declined to comment on the ruling but Titans coach Neil Henry expressed his dismay with the decision. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Henry said: “We’re very disappointed in the outcome. We thought we mounted a strong case for a downgrade from…