The annual battle for the best smartphone technology continues, with Samsung exerting its power as the maker of the most advanced Android-powered smartphones with Google Play on planet Earth, with three new S21 smartphones (with the Ultra getting S-Pen support), upgraded new Galaxy Buds with ANC - and new Tile-like Galaxy SmartTags and SmartTags+.



Thirty-five percent of security breaches in 2020 were caused by ransomware attacks, resulting in tremendous financial cost, while between January and October last year, 730 "publicly disclosed events" resulted in over 22 billion records being exposed, according to a report from security vendor Tenable.

Sharing some B2B insights on Samsung’s just launched and most advanced S-series flagships yet, the S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra is Danny Mandrides, Head of Samsung Australia’s Enterprise & Government Mobile Business.

Google Cloud and Nokia have announced a global, strategic partnership aimed at jointly developing cloud-native 5G Core solutions for communications service providers and enterprise customers.

It may take some time to digest this, but the the head of Sweden's telecommunications equipment vendor, Ericsson, is lobbying the government to lift ban on his main competitor, China's Huawei.

Unknown individuals have redirected the website of One Nation's Pauline Hanson so that anyone who attempts to visit it will be sent to the website of the Refugee Council of Australia.

Leading Edge Data Centres has reached an agreement with the NBN Co to build infrastructure for all RSPs to connect to its data centres in regional Australia.

Global revenue from semiconductors rebounded from a drop of 12% in 2019 to register an increase of 7.3% or US$449.8 billion (A$578 billion) in dollar terms in 2020, the technology research group Gartner says.

ASX-listed sales enablement vendor Bigtincan has acquired voice analytics specialist VoiceVibes.

An exclusive global license agreement has been signed covering RAN technology, expertise and commercial deployment commitment to advance shift toward Open RAN, 5G and cloud-native networks.

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Alex Zaharov-Reutt, Afternoon Newsletter Editor, iTWire

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