Westpac Bank is claiming an Australian first with the launch of Siri for Westpac, allowing its customers to make payments using voice technology.

Big telecommunications companies are pushing for a delay in the disconnection date for special business services to migrate from legacy infrastructure to the NBN because they benefit financially, the owner of a Tasmanian ISP claims.

The world's biggest automotive alliance has chosen Google's Android mobile operating system to provide intelligent infotainment systems in its vehicles.

The European Union has started taking a close look at the business practices of American retail giant Amazon, the bloc's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, told a news conference in Luxembourg on Wednesday.

Two researchers from DATACTIVE, a University of Amsterdam project that examines the politics of big data, and four from the University of Cardiff's Data Justice Lab have decided to boycott October's Amsterdam Privacy Conference due to the fact that the data-mining US firm Palantir is a major

The malicious attacker, or attackers, known as Magecart, who infiltrated the British Airways website last month, have now attacked online retailer Newegg using a new domain named neweggstats.com that they registered in August.

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