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New Zealand’s card payments market is expected to rebound strongly in 2021 registering 10.3% growth, supported by the economic revival, rising consumer spending, and growing preference for contactless payments, according to a new forecast by analyst firm GlobalData.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has announced a Backup app for its cloud software, which can aid in creating a recovery instance for small installations.

The Brave browser will no longer provide Google as its default search engine, instead replacing it with Brave Search, its own homegrown search offering, the company behind the browser says.

COMPANY NEWS by NEC/Telefonica: Telecommunications service provider Telefonica and NEC Corporation have entered an agreement to conduct Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) pre-commercial trials in Telefonica's four core global markets of Spain, Germany, the UK and Brazil.

Vodafone has been given a conditional go-ahead to use Huawei's 5G radio access network in Italy, the news agency Reuters reports.

Almost two-thirds (64%) of chief information security officers in 14 countries believe they will be hit by a material cyber-attack in the next 12 months, the security firm Proofpoint says.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has teamed up with Kailona, a healthcare app funded by the German Government, to provide a counter-model to apps that sell users' data.

German digital transformation vendor Software AG has appointed industry veteran Jing Tian as vice-president in Australia and New Zealand.

The company that sells Gigaset Android smartphones has advised that it has taken measures to automatically rid devices infected with malware that was reported to have been introduced in a supply chain attack.

Owners of Gigaset Android smartphones have been hit by malware that is automatically installed through what appears to be a supply chain attack, a blog post by German tech writer Günter Born claims.

German software giant Software AG has released a software package, known as TrendMiner, that will provide self-service industrial analytics for smart factories, utilising SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud launched Nextcloud Hub 21 this week, with the new release having a high-performance back-end written in Rust and a number of collaboration features.

Researchers at security outfit Red Canary say they have discovered Mac malware that also has a version aimed at the new M1 machines – but are not clear on what it does or what the vector of infection is.

Finnish telecommunications equipment vendor Nokia has teamed up with Vodafone to demonstrate a new passive optical network technology that can deliver speeds of up to 100Gbps on a single wavelength.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has executed a series of search warrants across Brisbane and the Gold Coast over two days in connection to the shutdown of DarkMarket, the world's largest illegal marketplace on the dark web.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has snubbed US demands to exclude Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from Germany's 5G networks, with legislation, that sets strict conditions for its participation, being sent to the Bundestag.

Neither American cyber security firm FireEye nor software giant Microsoft, the two companies which carried out an investigation into supply chain attacks on many companies through software made by SolarWinds, have attributed the attacks to any country, least of all Russia, in their reports.

When Oracle Corporation, a company that is not exactly known for being friendly to free software and open source, appears to be more friendly to Linux users than Red Hat, then it is time for people to sit up and take notice.

The Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms, put in place just after the Turnbull Government was toppled in 2018, have hit Huawei Australia hard, with the company losing 900 direct jobs, more than 1500 sub-contracting jobs and $100 million in R&D in Australia, the company claims in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry.

The British Government says it will pump £1.6 million (A$2.9 million) into Japanese firm NEC to support a project to develop an open radio access network for 5G.