A minister in the Papua New Guinea government has said that his country will honour the agreement it has made with Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies to build its Internet infrastructure, snubbing offers by the US, Japan and Australia to step in instead.

Just when things are already looking shaky for Apple this quarter, President Donald Trump has delivered a further kick in the groin by threatening to slap a 10% tariff on iPhone imports from China. However, analysts are saying China’s possible response could make things even worse for the company.

Australia's proposed encryption bill has been described as a national security measure that has been poorly conceived and likely to endanger security as not by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Professor Joseph Cannataci.

Australian energy storage company Redflow has won a second deal for the sale of 32 zinc-bromine flow batteries to provide standby energy storage for mobile phone towers in South Africa.

Customer survey platform provider Qualtrics has been selected by Thailand’s national air carrier, Thai Airways, to deliver the airline’s unified customer experience management program.

Global business technology firm, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), has unveiled the next phase of its composable strategy, including expanded delivery of cloud services through an open hybrid cloud platform.

Global consumer electronics giant LG Electronics has launched a robotic vacuum cleaner with built in artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning as one of a “new breed” of AI- enabled appliances being developed.

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