The Australian Labor Party will offer 5000 digital and ICT places in TAFEs free in order "to help prepare Australians for the jobs of the future" if the party is returned to power in Saturday's Federal Election.

Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson and Germany's Deutsche Telekom say they have achieved a "landmark" data transmission rate by consistently exceeding 100Gbps on a trial microwave link over 1.5km.

Global notebook shipments for the first quarter of 2019 suffered only a minuscule drop year-on-year despite the under-supply of CPUs, the market intelligence firm TrendForce says.

The Competition Commission of India, the country's anti-trust agency, has issued orders for a probe into Google for allegedly abusing the position enjoyed by its Android mobile operating system to block its rivals.

Businesses that earn the trust of their customers by being responsible stewards of their information will be rewarded with loyalty and positive word-of-mouth recommendations, Mark Perry, the chief technology officer of cloud security firm Ping Identity says.

Phishing is seen by more than one in four (44%) of Australian businesses as the biggest security threats they face, with ransomware, password and business email compromise continuing to beset organisations, according to a newly published survey.

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