Australian drinks manufacturer Lion has been forced to take down its IT systems following what is said to be a cyber incident.

Freelance marketplace platform provider Freelancer.com has won a joint US$25 million NASA Open Innovation Services 2 (NOIS2) tender.

UK grocery brands, Iceland Foods, has contracted Australian-based WARDY IT Solutions to migrate its 20-year-old legacy data system onto a new and more agile data platform.

Huawei has taken the biggest hit to its smartphone sales in Europe among the top vendors, probably due to the sanctions placed on it by the US, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says.

The latest US moves against Huawei will not result in putting the company out of business, but will end up in a decrease in sales to to American businesses that will hurt them, most notably chipset and component firms like Qualcomm, Broadcom and Intel, a wireless technology expert claims.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has chosen global security vendor Fortinet’s secure SD-WAN solution to expand and differentiate its service offerings to corporate, enterprise and government customers.

New Zealand Mobile Access Termination Service (MTAS) services should remain regulated, according to the country’s New Zealand competition enforcement agency which has just released the draft findings of its review into MTA wholesale services.

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