Australian listed IT solutions provider Data#3 has boosted total revenue by 11.6% to $718.9 million for the six months to the end of December 2019, maintaining what the company says is its longer-term growth trend.

Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission chief executive Michael Phelan have both played down suggestions that the Australian Signals Directorate could be given expanded powers to carry out domestic surveillance in order to help track down people who are indulging in sexual abuse of children.

Research collaboration led by the University of Western Australia has created a new technique that speeds up the development of seeds, producing better quality and more abundant pulse crops.

Silicon Valley has stopped talking about big data, according to data base chief technology specialist. The industry has realised that executing big data in isolation failed to deliver value, he says.

As robotics continues to be a buzz word in industry circles interest in standalone robotic process automation (RPA) has been waning over the last 12-18 months, according to a robotics industry specialist.

China's ICT market will take a hit of something like 10% in the first quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus, the global market intelligence firm IDC says, adding that the hit to this sector would be much greater than the overall effect on the Chinese economy.

Meanwhile, Chinese phone manufacturer realme will hold a global launch event on 24 February to announce the rollout of its Internet-of-Things and 5G devices.

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