Australian ASX-listed mobile satellite technology firm Beam Communications has signed deal with Indian satellite solutions company Station Satcom to resell Beam-branded Inmarsat equipment in the country.

New Zealand telecommunications company Spark has still not decided whether to submit a revised proposal to the country's spy agency in order to see whether it can use equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei in its 5G network.

Project Wing, an initiative of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has been given the go-ahead to start delivery by drones in north Canberra, the company says, with the service to be initially available to 100 eligible homes in the suburbs of Crace, Palmerston and Franklin as part of an Early Flyer Program.

A member of a Russian-speaking organised crime group has been jailed for six years and five months in the UK for targeting millions of PCs with Windows ransomware, according to Britain's National Crime Agency.

IT talent marketplace TechDirect has created a space for tech services so that Australian businesses can connect, pitch to, and negotiate with more than 70 verified and reviewed tech contractors.

The US-Israel nation-state hacking partnership that created Stuxnet, the malware used to cripple Iran's nuclear program, lasted much longer than was known earlier, researchers from Chronicle Security, a sister company of Google, claims.

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