Australia is in a bind when it comes to dealing with Chinese telecoms companies. On the one hand it is being called upon to fall in line with its biggest global allies the US and UK while on the other hand it is being cautioned by far its biggest trading partner.

The Australian Government is treading water when it comes to commenting on how it will act in the case of China's second biggest maker of telecommunications equipment, ZTE, after the US imposed a seven-year export ban on the firm and the UK warned against use of ZTE equipment in its telecommunications infrastructure.

Slow wage growth has hit the Australian employment market but despite the slowdown top IT workers can expect a pay rise in 2018, according to a newly published salary report.

Amazon’s Alexa-powered range of Echo smart assistants will be bolstered in Australia with the Echo Spot now available for pre-order.

The Australian Labor Party has welcomed the findings of a government review into the au Domain Administration, the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, but has raised questions about the need for an .au domain.

A cloud storage repository belonging to LocalBlox, a company that creates personal profiles using information scraped from publicly accessible sources, has been found unsecured on the Web, potentially exposing the details of 48 million people.

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