Global shipments of foldable smartphones are forecast to cross 100 million by 2027, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research claims, adding that Samsung and Apple are expected to dominate the market, even though the latter is yet to release a foldable phone.



Hitachi Vantara's Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for Azure Stack HCI, launched in collaboration with Microsoft, promises enhanced cloud management of hybrid environments including data centres, branch offices and edge computing.

Norwegian firm Vivaldi, which produces a browser of the same name, has criticised Google for releasing a specification known as Web Environment Integrity which it claims would be toxic to the Web at large.

Cloud security firm Wiz has found two privilege escalation issues in a filesystem used by Ubuntu Linux, with affected versions being widely used in the cloud.

Chinese smartphone vendor Oppo has released a new tablet into the Australian market, opting this time to call it simply the Oppo Pad 2, and pricing it at $699.

Eight telcos have breached the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code after they failed to provide a warning to help customers avoid service restrictions, suspensions, or disconnections, the Australian Communications and Media Authority found.

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