In a refreshing departure from blindly following US policy, the Australian Government says it is not making any recommendation on the use or otherwise of products from Kaspersky Lab.

Telstra and Vodafone have finally announced their iPhone 8 plans while Optus has has announced “Optus Number Share” for Apple Watch Series 3 owners, which allows them to share numbers between their wearable and their iPhone.

Apple's iOS 11 comes out this week but with it, you may find many of your apps disappear. iTWire CIO in residence David Williams provides details of how to prepare.

Google, Apple, Microsoft and others look like they are going to get tax slugged big time in the EU. Nine European Union countries have supported a move to tax big multinational technology companies on their revenue, and not profits.

Amaysim has taken top honours in a telco satisfaction survey. Three telcos powered by Optus, including Optus itself, make up the top three list with the most satisfied customers, followed by Telstra, Vodafone and then Aldi Mobile.

It seems hope springs eternal in some sections of Linux Land. The head of the Linux Foundation proclaimed 2017 as the year of the Linux desktop in his keynote at a major conference last week - while using a macOS machine for his presentation.

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