The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is leaning towards denying a request from a number of banks to collectively bargain with Apple over Apple Pay.

Optus has launched a new solution – Xtra – for data-hungry mobile customers enabling Android users to earn extra data or credit by viewing ads on their smartphone.

Documents seized by the AFP from the parliamentary office of Labor MP Jason Clare during a raid on 24 August should be returned, a bipartisan panel has ruled.

Smartwatches, particularly those with good health and fitness underpinnings, are still a niche, but growing market. Samsung may well have made its new Gear S3 the best, certainly the most comprehensive, smartwatch with fitness benefits so far says reviewer Ray Shaw.

Chinese firm Thermal Focus has cut a deal with the CSIRO to use the latter's solar heliostat technology for concentrating solar thermal (CST) electricity generation.

Cyanogen Inc, the company set up to commercialise the CyanogenMod mobile operating system, may be about to close its headquarters in Seattle, a report claims.

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