Legislation supported by both sides of politics in the US seeks a sum of US$1 billion to help small and rural wireless providers replace equipment made by Chinese vendors Huawei Technology and ZTE Corporation.

Google has won an appeal to the Court of Justice of the European Union, in which it asked for a change in a 2015 order by the French Data Protection Authority, CNIL, asking it to extend the right to be forgotten to all its domains.

Amazon has developed a new voice app that will answer rugby union fans questions about the national team and also provide an audio call of each day's matches from the Rugby World Cup which is in progress in Japan.

The worldwide market for social software and collaboration in the workplace is expected to grow revenue from an estimated US$2.7 billion in 2018 to US$4.8 billion by 2023, nearly doubling in size, according to a new analyst report.

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has strengthened its presence in Canberra with the appointment of 20-year government relations veteran Simon Bush as general manager of policy & advocacy.

Complaints about Internet services replaced complaints over mobile services as the most complained about service type in the last financial year, according to the latest Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman report.

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