Telstra and Ericsson claim to have completed Australia's first end-to-end 5G standalone call at the 5G Innovation Centre on the Gold Coast, over the 3.6GHz spectrum and using Ericsson's Baseband 6630, Radio AIR6488 and a 5G SA device based on a MediaTek chipset.

The United States has called for the creation of backdoors in apps that use encryption, arguing that consumers should accept this risk to allow law enforcement access to encrypted communications.

Australian retail giant Coles has engaged technology services provider Accenture to support the rollout of new technology that is expected to help Coles reduce its costs by a total of $1 billion over four years.

US security firm Immunity has started selling an exploit to take advantage of a flaw in Microsoft's proprietary remote desktop protocol. The vulnerability was revealed in May.

Cloud technology has delivered $9.4 billion in productivity benefits to the Australian economy in the past five years, according to a newly released research report.

A survey of 3000 workers, including 1000 from the Asia-Pacific region, has found that 71% of Australians tend to take their work devices with them when going on vacation, the highest percentage recorded.

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