The CVC costs set by the NBN Co make it very difficult for ISPs to offer gigabit connections to more than a select band of customers who are willing to sign up in numbers and pay slightly more than other speed tiers, according to one ISP who caters to this type of consumer.

British spyware company Gamma Group is facing legal action from four Bahrainis who claim the company knowingly sold its wares to the Bahraini Government knowing that it would be used to crack down on dissidents like them during the Arab spring of 2011

The online smartphone market in India is set to cross 15 million units in the third quarter of 2018, an increase of more than 25% year-on-year, and comprising 38% of the total online market, technology analyst firm Canalys claims.

A day ahead of the closing of bids for a massive US Department of Defence cloud contract, WikiLeaks has published the locations of Amazon's data centres which, it claims, have been a closely held secret until now. Amazon is a frontrunner to win the US$10 billion contract.

A new Android trojan, named GPlayed, has been spotted by Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group which says it has an icon very similar to Google Apps and uses the label "Google Play Marketplace" as a disguise.

Five finalists have been selected from 85 applications for the Optus inaugural innovation challenge, with the telco praising the high volume of quality startups which participated in the program.

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