Australia's digital economy has grown by slightly more than $14 billion between the years 2012-13 and 2016-17, a report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.

Office products and services supplier Officeworks has acquired Geeks2U, a national provider of on-site information, communication and technology services.

More than a week after it was hit by a self-admitted cyber attack, Toyota Australia's corporate IT systems are still offline, the company says on its website.

French defence giant Thales and Australia’s largest telco Telstra are jointly developing an ecosystem for the safe operation of drones and air taxis alongside manned aircraft.

The smart speaker market enjoyed a boom in 2018 with global shipments reaching 78.0 million units, a rise of 125% from the 34.7 million shipped in 2017, the analyst firm Canalys says.

The mobile operators trade body, GSM Association, has found that significant progress has been made by Chinese mobile vendors, operators and manufacturers in adopting remote SIM provisioning and eSIM technologies.

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