The City of Lake Macquarie in regional NSW is set to become the first Australian local government area to create a smart city network equivalent to the size of 23 Sydney local government areas.

The man with the Wright stuff at Telstra since 1980, who worked his way up the ranks to manage what is soon to become Telstra's 5G network is set to step down.

South Korean giant Samsung Electronics has opened what is claimed to be the world's biggest manufacturing unit for mobile phones, with the expanded plant being in Noida, close to the Indian capital, New Delhi.

NEC has signed an agreement with the Bay to Bay Express Cable System (BtoBE) consortium comprising China Mobile International, Facebook and Amazon Web Services to build a high performance submarine cable connecting Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States.

A feature in version 11.4.1 of iOS — known as USB Restricted Mode — will disable the Lightning port after an hour of the device being unlocked, but it can be bypassed for now, a researcher claims. The new version has just been released.

A number of US politicians have written to Alphabet chief executive Larry Page and Apple chief executive Tim Cook, raising questions about the handling of personal information of users.

A feature in version 11.4.1 of iOS — known as USB Restricted Mode — will disable the Lightning port after an hour of the device being unlocked, but it can be bypassed for now, a researcher claims. The new version has just been released.

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