Swiss bank Credit Suisse has found an easy way to get rid of IT employees as part of a cost-cutting drive: simply transfer them to the Indian outsourcing company which is doing its work.

WestConnex new M4 contractor CPB Samsung John Holland JV has awarded Prysmian Australia a contract to deliver 1,100 km of MV, LV, control, communications and fibre optic cables for the New South Wales road tunnel project.

An exclusive report this morning says that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull plans to ask US President Donald Trump to demand that US technology companies break into encrypted messages sent by suspected terrorists.

Ooyala’s Q1 2016 Video Index shows rapid growth in mobile content consumption. In the Asia Pacific region 61% of all video plays are on mobile, up from 46% a year ago and surprisingly, long-form content is the most popular.

The WSJ reports that Samsung is working on a HomePod and Echo-like, Bixby-powered smart speaker, but the Korea Herald puzzlingly says Samsung needs more data to Bixby’s, presumably to cure deafness.

Malware detected by the security firm WatchGuard Technologies in the first quarter of 2017 indicated that there is a sharp rise in Linux threats directed against IoT devices.

A senior Russian official has escalated the war of words over products from Kaspersky Lab by saying that any "unilateral political sanctions" by the US against Russian companies could prompt a response from Moscow.

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