A judge in the US has blocked the government from implementing a decision to make it mandatory for Apple and Google to remove the WeChat application from their respective app stores.



The United States has banned the downloading of TikTok and WeChat by residents, claiming this would be a threat to the country's national security.

Professional services firm Accenture has formed Accenture Cloud First to help clients adopt (you guessed it!) cloud first policies.

Brought to Australia for the first time by WaterSecure, the Flo system by well-known US faucet brand Moen can "continuously monitor for water leakage and prevent water damage", and it's available locally now - and naturally features a smartphone app.

The Australian PC market — desktops, notebooks and workstations — grew by 35.2% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2020 with a total of 1.422 million units shipped, the technology analyst firm IDC says.

The global telecom software and services market in 2019 grew about 1% to US$66.9 billion, with Nokia again ranked as the top service provider by market share with approximatelly US$4. billion, according to the rankings by research firm Analysys Mason in its latest annual report.

Digital bank 86 400 has unvelied what it claims is the first consumer-facing feature developed using Open Banking product data, a real-time comparison graph of savings interest rates.

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