After two class-action lawsuits in the US have targeted Apple's flat, butterfly keyboards on portable Macs from 2015 onwards, the company has finally recognised the issue and has launched a keyboard service program.

The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has been quick to put the telecoms industry on notice it will take into account the new industry standards mandated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for consumers transitioning to the NBN, when considering disputes.

The Australian Labor Party has pledged to deliver a better experience for those consumers of Australia's national broadband network, the NBN, with a plan for an NBN Service Guarantee that sets standards for fixing faults, installations and missed appointments.

A new Kickstarter campaign, to give your laptop a relatively inexpensive second screen that can "slide out", raised its funding amount in just four hours, and has nearly raised 10 times that amount, but can Duet Display and an iPad do the same thing, today?

An official at the US Commerce Department says Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corporation will pay US$400 million into an escrow account within the “next couple of days”, the final step it is needed to take to have a seven-year ban lifted.

British energy and connected home company Centrica's new study shows that Britons are "baffled by the number of buttons, symbols and switches", with "millions" too busy to read instructions, thus wasting thousands in poorly used technology in homes.

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