An estimated total of at least 5.3 billion phones are prematurely discarded every year, part of an estimated annual total of 50 million tonnes of e-waste—the equivalent weight of all the commercial aircraft ever made, according to mobile company Kingfisher.



Object storage company Cloudian in collaboration with AMD and Micron has introduced the Cloudian HyperStore 8.9 object storage software.

Berkley Insurance Australia has deployed Nutanix’s technology to boost its IT infrastructure, providing digital performance to its 135 underwriters, claims managers, and supporting workforce and allowing its technical staff to focus on cybersecurity.

Financial technology platform Adyen has brought its Tap to Pay feature on iPhone in Australia.

Over half (54%) of the global population—an estimated 4.3 billion people—now owns a smartphone, according to GSMA’s annual State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2023 (Somic).

Japanese tech giant NEC has developed a 150GHz transmitter IC chip for 5G and 6G mobile access radio communication systems.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire



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