Leading mobile semiconductor company Qualcomm has introduced two new modem chipsets with satellite capability: the 212S and 9205S modem.



Three Chinese telco providers have joined the GSMA Open Gateway initiative, an industry framework that helps accelerate digital services and mobile apps.

Medibank Private will face an increase of $250 million in its capital adequacy requirement from 1 July, with the Australian Prudential and Regulation Authority imposing the increase after a review of the cyber attack on the medical insurance provider last year.

Not for the first time, the industrial cyber security firm Dragos has contradicted popular conclusions about malware, saying its research into the ICS malware dubbed COSMICENERGY by the Google-owned Mandiant, has found that it is not an immediate threat to operational technology.

Lithium-ion battery co-inventor Dr John Goodenough has died at the age of 100, his employer, the University of Texas at Austin, announced on Monday, describing him as "a dedicated public servant, a sought-after mentor and a brilliant yet humble inventor".

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire



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