The competition regulator will undertake a market study to discover the exact state of the telecommunications sector, with the focus on the national broadband network and 5G technology.

Australia’s ICT sector continues to offer little short-term hope for job-seeking executives with a new report on executive employment revealing that the jobs index lost 5% in June after a 6% retraction in May.

Meanwhile, the Australian Information Industry Association, the nation’s “peak member body for the ICT industry”, has welcomed ICT amendments to 457 visas that address “critical skills shortages".

Do robots dream of electric shearing? Without positronic brains, likely not, with the only shearing happening being that of the green, green grass of home.

If you’ve got a Samsung Galaxy S6 or better, a Note 5, an A5, A7 or even any other modern Samsung phone with a fingerprint reader, you can use your fingerprint to unlock a Windows 10 PC.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has started the development of a country-wide low-power wide area network to enable the Internet of Things.

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