The Australian Government has released a national strategy for Blockchain technology aptly titled the National Blockchain Roadmap. The release has been welcomed by the Blockchain Australia association.

Chinese smartphone makers Huawei, OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi plan to jointly launch a platform, known as the Global Developer Service Alliance, where developers can upload apps for all four brands.

US Attorney-General William Barr has called for active consideration of a proposal to take a controlling stake in telecommunications firms Nokia and Ericsson in order to prevent Chinese vendor Huawei from increasing its market share.

Global IT solutions provider Hyland has announced the acquisition of blockchain digital credentialing solutions provider Learning Machine.

Open source advocate Bruce Perens has prevailed in a legal stoush with Open Source Security, the company that offers a patch known as Grsecurity for the Linux kernel, with a court ratifying that OSS must pay Perens' legal costs as awarded in June 2018.

US telco giant Verizon has appointed Robert Le Busque as managing director for the Asia Pacific region, including Australia.

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