Consumer telecommunications advocate the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network has published a warning on its site about the increasing incidence of identity theft resulting from fraudulent mobile phone number porting.

Samsung is reportedly issuing patches to fix "red tint", Wi-Fi and "DQA" issues, while an S8/+ wireless fast charging issue appears to be caused by the "wrong" charger. And Samsung’s snazziest new smartphones have been proclaimed the first Blue Tick handsets by Telstra for superior voice and data quality in rural and regional areas.

Optus will invest $8.2 million of its own funds and $1.8 million from the federal government to set up 22 new mobile sites in Western Queensland to improve coverage for the region.

Organisations in the private and public sectors spend a greater proportion of their IT budgets on digital initiatives than governments, according to a global survey.

Telstra will deploy Ericsson's fully virtualised MediaFirst Video Processing solution suite to power its new video processing data centre.

Yep, the "bug" that causes the iPhone to crash when three icons in the Control Center are pressed works, Should should you be worried?

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