Vodafone Australia has slammed the Federal Government for 'blindly handing Telstra $6b' for the Universal Service Obligation. Vodafone has called on the government to act "following yet another damning USO report".

The are now nearly 14 million Internet users in Australia according to ABS stats. Australia's Bureau of Statistics has released its latest Internet and mobile figures for Australia, dated June 2017, but do the numbers tell the whole story?

It appears that Nokia is making a real comeback. Vodafone will not only stock the brand new and very cool Nokia 3110 3G candy-bar feature phone, but will also stock the Nokia 8, 6 and 3 Androids nationwide, rolling out over the "coming weeks."

In what appears to be a bid to mollify publishers in the wake of criticism of its search policies, Google will end its "first click free" policy for articles from sites that have subscriptions that show up in its search results

Intel research indicates self-driving vehicles will create a new $7 trillion passenger economy by 2050. Will there be any drivers left on the road in the not too distant future?

Enterprise database vendor Oracle yesterday through boss man Larry Ellison announced Oracle 18C stating it is the world's first and only autonomous database, says David M Williams who is attending Oracle Open World 2017.

Internet of Things solutions provider Quantify Technology has signed a deal with the Harvey Norman chain of retail stores that it claims will potentially bring in $30 million in annual sales.

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