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If the US goes ahead and institutes a ban on the Chinese application WeChat, the company that will benefit the most will the one that Washington has had in its sights for nearly a decade: Huawei.

Australian consumers have traditionally been early adopters of new technologies and at the end of 2019 several key milestones were reached, according to research firm Telsyte which reveals that smartphones have now become the main digital device for more than half (51%) of Australians - with millions of Australians loyal to either their iPhones or Android smartphones.

Smartphone sales in Australia dropped by 5% to 4.3 million units in the second half of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, as the cost of premium handsets continued to weigh on buyers, according to a new research report.

Another confrontation may be brewing between the FBI and Apple, after the US domestic intelligence agency asked the company to help decrypt data on two iPhones which belong to a man named Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani who is suspected of carrying out a shooting that killed three people at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida last month.

Foxtel is now directing its customers previously using the Foxtel Now mobile app to its Foxtel GO app which it says will give mobile phone or tablet users a simplified experience with the best of TV and on demand in one place.

Apple may have to stop selling some iPhone models in the US if a judgment that found it had infringed on two patents owned by multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company Qualcomm is enforced.

A court in Germany has dismissed a patent lawsuit filed by processor maker Qualcomm against Apple, saying that the patent concerned was not violated by its chips being used in iPhones.

Apple has said it would appeal a court verdict in China that imposes a ban on the import and sale of some iPhone models in response to action by processor maker Qualcomm.

A British collective known as Google You Owe Us, which had a case against Google for allegedly bypassing default privacy settings on the Safari browser on iPhones to collect information blocked by the High Court, has launched an appeal against the decision.

Smartphone sales for the full-year 2018 are forecast to drop by 1.3% year-on-year, making it the first time that the market for these devices has contracted two years in a row.

Chip maker Qualcomm has fired a broadside against Apple, accusing the latter of "a campaign of false promises, stealth and subterfuge” in the long-running patent-infringement battle between the two firms.

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

Late last week, the news emerged of exactly when Apple would unveil its 2018 range of iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, expected new Macs and other surprises, which included leaks of two new iPhones and the Series 4 Apple Watch.

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, for the first time ever, has surpassed Apple to secure the number two vendor ranking in worldwide smartphone sales, according to a newly published report.

For nearly three years, an unknown attacker in India has taken over 13 iPhones in the same country, using a mobile device management server, but has apparently done little beyond replacing some apps with his/her own versions, researchers from Cisco claim.

Apple has plans to use its own processors in its computers from 2020 onwards, moving away from chips made by market leader Intel.

A small Australian company based in Sydney is playing a crucial role in helping spies and law enforcement to break into smartphones and also supplying them zero-day exploits, a report claims.

Apple has had another good quarter, with the company reporting the second-best revenue in the company's history for the third quarter of a financial year.

Hardcore Windows phone fans have piled on to Microsoft's Joe Belfiore after he announced that Apple's iPhone can be linked to Windows 10 PCs using a dedicated app that is also available on Android.

The CIA has been infecting the Apple iPhone supply chain of one of its targets with malware since at least 2008, WikiLeaks claims in a fresh dump of documents which it says are again from the American spy organisation.