Communications Minister Senator Mitch Fifield has told Optus that its bullying approach to getting its cable customers to move over to NBN connections is unacceptable. Optus has pressured its customers to switch even though many have not been notified by NBN Co that services are available.

Over in Britain, a satellite provider is contemplating steps to provide broadband on flights. Back here in Australia, the government continues on with its disastrous experiment — for it is truly that — to build a land-based broadband network and finds that it is well short of the mark.

Leading smartphone makers may have to increase prices because they have been too successful. By creating a demand for premium features like AMOLED screens, more RAM, faster UFS storage, and stronger materials, they have created shortages of these products.

A New Zealand programmer has developed a device that acts as a firewall for USB flash drives, preventing any exploits on such drives from running and destroying or in other ways compromising data on a PC.

Smartphone maker OPPO has stretched its mid-market, class-leading 5.5” R9s to a plus 6” size and added optical image stabilisation, a 4000mAh battery, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 635 processor, 6GB RAM and 64GB storage.

Australian-listed US-based technology products developer, Department 13 (D13 has successfully tested its recently launched counter-drone product, Mesmer.

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