While all of Australia’s carriers are falling over themselves to announce the arrival new iPhone models, Singapore telco Singtel has announced "unlimited" mobile plans. The maximum one can download at 500Mbps offered on the plan is 62GB, after which speed is shaped to 1Mbps. Still, not too shabby.

Telstra and Optus will both have the new iPhone 8 models, and the cellular Apple Watch Series 3 too, in their stores from 22 September. Vodafone is missing in action today, too, but of course the pre-order deal is all over its front page, too.

A group of Chinese businessmen have launched a new mobile app to help increase the level of financial literacy among members of the Chinese community both in China and Australia.

India has given a hint that it may develop its own cryptocurrency, a couple of days before China indicated that it would be closing all Bitcoin exchanges by the end of September.

Three former women employees of Google have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, alleging they were paid less than their male counterparts who had similar roles.

The co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, has accepted an invitation to testify before US Congress after the company's products were banned from use by US Government agencies.

We all know about free software but San Francisco-based computer manufacturer Purism has joined hands with the KDE Desktop project to bring out the world's first free smartphone.

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