The Australian Government has announced competition limits which it says will allow a competitive auction by telcos bidding for 5G spectrum in the 3.6 GHz band.

The bottom is falling out of the voice communications market. Worldwide operator-billed mobile voice revenues are forecast to fall from US$354 billion in 2018 to US$197 billion by 2023, an average annual decline of 10%, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

A former Apple employee who was working on the company's autonomous vehicle project has been arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets from the company.

Security firm FireEye claims it has found files that prove a group known as TEMP.Periscope, which it claims is of Chinese origin, has compromised a number of Cambodian entities which are connected to that country's electoral system.

42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything but 46 is the answer to how many Bitcoin ATMs are in Australia as of July 2018.

Expectations that Facebook would be hit with anything remotely resembling meaningful fines over the Cambridge Analytica scandal have been dashed, with Britain's Information Commissioner’s Office levying a £500,000 penalty on the company.

Internet and smartphone use in China shows no sign of slowing down if one were to judge from a new report that says there are 772 million net users in the country out of a population of 1.4 billion.

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