Apple has gone into the infotainment business, launching a news subscription service, a TV service and a credit card with no fees at an event held in California overnight, with the news subscription, to more than 300 publications, to cost US$9.99 per month.

Mobile vendor ecosystem group Global mobile Suppliers Association has released what is claimed to be the first database that tracks the launch of 5G devices globally.

Security issues with the ASUS Live Update utility, which is claimed to have been used in a supply chain attack by a nation-state, were highlighted as far back as 2016, with a security analysis of OEM updaters by three researchers from the firm Duo Security slamming the Taiwan-based firm over its lax approach to updating.

Listed Australian data centre operator NextDC’s Brisbane-based operations have been appointed by the Queensland Government as a new enterprise provider on the ICT supplier panel to deliver data centre-as-a-Service (DCaaS) solutions to Queensland Government departments and agencies.

Australian personal computer shipments fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2018, by 2.5% year-on-year, the analyst firm IDC says, adding that this was a sharp reverse of the very strong 2Q and 3Q year-on-year growth of 8.9% and 9.6% respectively.

More than $5 million was lost to scams in 2018 involving gift cards - a 38% increase compared with 2017 – with iTunes cards accounting for $3.1 million in losses, according to Scamwatch, the competition watchdog ACCC’s scam warning service.

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