Getting away from the dewy eyed fanboys and looking dispassionately at the set of figures that Apple posted yesterday for its fiscal third quarter, one would have to say that there are some quite positive signs for the iconic company - with one massive proviso.

Japan’s dominant mobile operator NTT Docomo has started to plug gap left by the Abe government’s banning of Huawei equipment for its 5G network build, using NEC and Fujitsu for core and radio access network (RAN) components.

The Communications Alliance, Australia’s peak body for the telecommunications industry, has condemned the behaviour of a small number of service providers found to be engaged in “misleading sales practices”.

Private investment firm Bain CapitalBain Capital has announced the merger of ChinData, a leading Chinese operator of campus-style, hyperscale data centres, and Bridge Data Centres, a wholesale and custom build data centre company,

Digital transformation creates massive savings for businesses with a newly released study showing that digitisation of engineering processes can save businesses and organisations an average of 35% in capex costs and time optimisation – and commissioning costs of new systems and assets can be reduced by an average of 29%.

Data management specialist Cohesity's has released a product that scans backup data to identify vulnerabilities in the organisation's IT environment.

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