Retailers are now selling new, larger capacity nbn Sky Muster plans, promising "better value broadband for the bush" at peak and off peak times. The new plans offer up to 300GB monthly.

Less than a month after American credit information provider Equifax announced a major data breach, the US Internal Revenue Service has awarded the company a US$7.25 million contract to verify taxpayer identities and help prevent fraud.

US multinational telecommunications conglomerate Verizon has announced that all three billion accounts which Yahoo! had in December 2013, were affected by a data breach in 2013.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has been interviewed by many tech and other publications recently since his book, Hit Refresh, was published. Yet all have failed to ask him a single question about the biggest problem that Microsoft has caused for individual consumers and businesses alike: ransomware.

If you’re into immersive reality, Samsung's HMD Odyssey headset looks a bit like most of the others, with handheld Vive-like controllers, but it won't come to Australia until sometime in 2018.

Singapore-based peer-to-peer crowd-funding platform Funding Societies has launched a chatbot known as Miyu to answer queries about its services with the aim of providing a human-like experience after hours.

Sydney-based ValueAd Marketing (VAM) has been formally warned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for sending out commercial SMSs without providing sufficient company contact information.

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