New Zealand’s competition enforcement and regulatory agency The Commerce Commission has warned Apple for misleading consumers about their Consumer Guarantees Act (CGA) rights and its replacement products being new.

Global sales of smartphones to end users in the first quarter of 2018 have recovered from a slump last year, according to the latest report from Gartner, with Chinese brand Huawei closing the gap on Apple in the sales rankings.

The Australian Labor Party has pledged to make NBN Co, the company rolling out the national broadband network, more accountable to consumers if it gets back into power at the next Federal Election.

Researchers at IBM's X-Force Research have discovered a Windows banking trojan that is unusual in one major respect: it uses a Microsoft SQL Server database server as its command-and-control server.

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies has ended support for alternative bootloaders on its smartphones, with the company saying support had ended on 25 May.

The news that the staff at NBN Co are paid handsomely from the public purse comes in the same week that a study showed chief executives' pay in the US to be up to 5000 times that of an average worker in the companies they headed.

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