Large broadband providers hang your heads in shame. Small broadband provider Aussie Broadband has come out on top in the second report from the ACCC's broadband speed monitoring program, achieving 88.3% of download speed and 89.1% of upload speeds for a plan during the busy period.

T-Mobile, the third mobile network in the US, has signed what is the world's biggest 5G deal to date, a US$3.5 billion deal for Finnish firm Nokia to supply it with 5G network equipment.

Attackers have stolen about US$7.7 million worth of cryptocurrency from KICKICO, a platform for initial coin offerings, by using a new tactic: destroying existing coins and then creating new ones so that the total in the network stayed the same.

James Cook University in North Queensland is claiming an Australian-first offering of fully-online training as a data scientist.

In-store contactless payments are estimated to reach US$2 trillion worldwide by 2020, with the global market driven by an explosion in the use of payment cards and mobile wallets.

Cloud storage, synchronisation and collaboration provider Dropbox has added a terabyte to the amount of space available to Professional and Business Standard account holders.

Victoria’s environmental regulator the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is set to deploy the Dell Boomi integration platform to synchronise its full IT transformation.

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