Australia may be the cheapest place for broadband in the Oceania region but it ranks a lowly 85 globally. The cheapest broadband packages in 195 countries surveyed by the UK's Cable.co.uk site was in Ukraine and cost US$5 per month. The most expensive was in Mauritania, cost US$768.16.

Global networking giant Cisco is cutting hundreds of full-time staff, with one employee saying on the Web forum thelayoff.com that his team was told about being sacked by the vice-president of the section.

Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge are the only widely-used browsers which have no inbuilt protection against tracking users and Google cares onlyabout its bottom line but not users, the digital rights body, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says.

Apple’s share of global smartphone sales leapt significantly in the three months to the end of September, with the iPhone X remaining the top selling device for the quarter and reaching its highest share yet of 9.1%.

The trend of telecoms and energy companies converging could be a sign for telecoms that communications services are well on their way to becoming a utility, according to one global analyst firm.

Adobe and Dropbox have launched a new feature for Dropbox Extensions, with the release of Send for Signature with Adobe Sign, describing the release as the next major milestone in their partnership to help joint customers get more done with documents, from wherever they choose to work.

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