Leading European telcos have used Huawei’s Mobile Broadband Forum in Zürich to outline their 5G plans for the next five years. In Europe at least, 5G has arrived.

5G standards have been introduced, but not fully implemented. Each vendor knows its take on the subject, but the real value is in listening to what the attendees actually say.

The government has made the use of two-factor authentication compulsory when porting mobile numbers from one provider to another, in what it says is a big step to keep Australians safe from telephone scammers.

Rival telcos Telstra and Optus have both launched their mobile plan offerings for the new Google Pixel 4 smartphones, each with a raft of offers to tempt consumers buying the new phones.

Private equity form BGH Capital has pumped a sizeable amount into the formation of a cyber security firm CyberCX, uniting 12 independent firms, led by former Optus Business MD John Paitaridis and former head of The Australian Cyber Security Centre, Alastair MacGibbon.

Scientists have found a way of fabricating nanomesh so that it can be used as a drug delivery system for antibiotics, in what could be a step in the fight against global antibiotic resistance,

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