Fixed-line NBN customers are benefitting from competition among Internet service providers to perform well in the ACCC's speed tests, though some consumers continue to get much lower speeds than others on the same plan.

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat for $34billion is a win-win for both companies, according to analyst firm GlobalData and will give IBM a solid bridge between its existing on-premise hardware and its global cloud platform.

Security firm Secure Logic has called on the Federal Government to follow the lead of the US state of California and the United Kingdom and introduce legislation to protect Australians from insecure Internet-of-Things devices.

The Spacetalk kids watch is to be distributed and sold in New Zealand by telco Spark under a new master services agreement with MGM Wireless.

Global smartphone vendors' shipments in the third quarter of 2018 showed a year-on-year decline of 6%, preliminary statistics from analyst firm IDC show.

Victoria’s RMIT University is partnering with innovAGEING, Australia’s first innovation network for the aged care industry, to create a knowledge alliance to link research with product and service development in the aged care industry.

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