Competition issues with the upcoming 5G spectrum allocation process are under the spotlight from Australia’s competition regulator, the ACCC, which has issued a consultation paper seeking public feedback.

Shipments of so-called traditional PCs in the Europe, Middle East and African markets in 2020 will be 72.2 million, a decline of 1% year-on-year, the global market intelligence firm IDC says, adding that the first half of 2020 would be better than the second, with growth of 1.6% year-on-year for the first quarter and no change in the second quarter year-on-year.

The Mozilla Foundation has begun rolling out encrypted DNS over HTTPS for its Firefox browser by default for users in the US, but has no plans in place for other global regions.

US networking giant CenturyLink is greatly expanding its operations in Asia-Pacific, which will include a substantially increased presence in Australia.

Global online payment fraud is predicted to cause losses exceeding US$200 billion over the next five years, driven by the increased sophistication of fraud attempts and the rising number of attack vectors.

We also have a couple of new product announcements - one for homes and the other for small businesses from market watcher Sam Varghese. Ultimate Ears, a division of computer peripherals maker Logitech, has released its latest portable Bluetooth speaker which is known as HYPERBOOM. Epson has launched a document scanner, along with two software packages – ScanSmart Accounting Edition Software and Nuance Power PDF.

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