Australian competition watchdog the ACCC has taken search giant Google to the Federal Court over allegedly making false or misleading claims about the collection of personal location data.

On 29 October 1969 the first message was transmitted over ARPANET, the forerunner to the Internet. UCLA student programmer Charlie Kline used the University’s SDS Sigma 7 computer to login to an SDS 940 computer at Stanford Research Institute at Stanford University in Silicon Valley.

Global storage and data management vendor, NetApp, has announced major changes to simplify how any company can procure, have support for, and pay for, NetApp products. The vision is dubbed Keystone signifying it is the solution to lock a data fabric strategy in place and has its roots in Australian innovation.

Apple's 1st-gen AirPods in 2016 offered "up to" 2 hours of talk time, with the 2nd-gen AirPods from 2019 extending this to 3 hours, but the new AirPods Pro take this to a welcome 3.5 hours on a single charge.

More than 30,000 consumers and small businesses complained about their phone and Internet services - with many complaining about problems with their bills and the quality of customer service - over a three month period to the end of September this year, according to the latest complaints report from the Telecomunications Industry Ombudsman.

Australia's peak body for consumer representation in communications, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), says the increase in complaints about internet services to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) highlights the need for greater reliability safeguards.

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