Over half of IT & telecommunications employers will give their staff a pay rise of less than 3% in their next review while 8% will not increase salaries at all, according to the 2018-19 salary guide from recruitment firm Hays.

Australia’s largest carrier Telstra has turned on LTE-Broadcast technology nationally for its mobile network and says customers who are using Samsung Galaxy S8 and S9 devices will benefit from better HD streaming when they use the AFL Live official app.

If you've been harbouring a hope, new or otherwise, that an eBay Plus vs Amazon Prime price war would awaken, your wish looks to have been granted, but as always, you'd better be quick.

Credentials for accessing computers at a major international airport through Microsoft's proprietary Remote Desktop Protocol have been found for sale for as little as US$10 by American security firm McAfee.

Documents belonging to the US Air Force and containing details about the MQ-9 Reaper drone have been offered for sale on the dark web for as little as US$200, a security firm claims.

After all the hubbub about locking ZTE Corporation out of America, the way has been cleared for giant the Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor to resume its US business operations after an agreement was signed by the US and the company on Wednesday.

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