The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are unlikely to be iPhone killers if past statistics are any guide, Lauren Guenveur, consumer insight director for Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, says.

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has a problem agreeing with telco veteran Bevan Slattery when the latter suggested that the government write down most of its investment in the national broadband network and lower access prices.

Changes made by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to the criteria for granting H-1B visas appear to have had an effect, with the number of applications falling for the first time in four years.

Android's share of the urban China market in the three months ending February 2017 was more than at any time in the previous year, with 86.4% of smartphone sales, compared to 77.1% in the corresponding period for the previous year.

Australian-based online comparison website iSelect is claiming a world-first with its newly deployed Aspect customer engagement centre platform going live.

IoT vendor Freestyle Technology is supplying the South Korean Municipality of Gochang with a multimillion dollar water metering and management system.

Intel has cancelled its Intel Developer Forum tradeshow, including the one scheduled for the US summer this year.

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