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Telstra has launched three new "affordable smartphones", from the $99 Telstra Essential Plus, the $129 Alcatel 1X and the $199 Telstra Superior, which ain't so heavy on the wallet in your posterior.

Australia’s Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE) is deploying Optus IT services and devices to help extend the reach of its digital screening solution, iCOPE.

A member of auDA, the organisation that looks after the Australian domain namespace, has lodged a freedom of information request with the Department of Communications and the Arts over what he claims are membership irregularities, where individuals who were Supply-related were granted Demand Class membership.

A former employee of Indian IT outsourcing company HCL has filed a suit, claiming that the firm discriminates against non-Indian workers and games the American H-1B visa system.

US-based connected planning solutions vendor Anaplan is accelerating its expansion in the New Zealand market with the appointment of business solutions provider Mindfull as the company’s first channel partner in the country.

Text messaging rather than talking over the phone is now preferred by many Australians, according to a new survey which found that 56% of Aussie adults avoid making phone calls, turning instead to messaging apps or even email.

Internet Australia, which claims to represent its members and not the industry, has changed its voting procedures ahead of its annual general meeting which is scheduled to be held in either October or November.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has claimed that he had no knowledge of a plan to build a censored search engine for the Chinese market before it was leaked to media. His claim was made during an employees' meeting that ended in an anti-climax after it was discovered that someone was leaking the proceedings to a reporter who was live-tweeting it.

Companies involved in 14 major recent data breaches in Australia and the rest of the world — including human resources outfit PageUp People — did not even achieve a passing grade for the way in which they handled post-breach communications, the authors of a new book on breaches say.

Asus has launched the "first 17.3-inch gaming laptop under 400mm wide with an ultrafast display and a bevy of powerful gaming features".

Proudly boasting of the world's thinnest gaming laptop with ultrafast 144Hz 15.6-inch display in a 14.2-inch chassis and powerful NVIDIA graphics choices, the Zephyrus S is also joined by its bigger brother, the Strix Scar II with 17.3-inch screen in a 15.7-inch body that's less than 400mm wide.

Graphics processing hardware vendor Nvidia has announced the world’s first real-time ray tracing GPU. Words don’t do it justice; here you can see it for yourself.

Red Hat is a successful, public open source software company. It’s the first open source company to crack US$1 billion in revenue and is closing in on US$3 billion. Here is some advice from the chief executive for your own business.

Wireless and corded headset manufacturer Jabra has released the world’s first professional UC-certified earbuds, the Evolve 75e.

Japanese multinational consumer and professional electronics company, Sony, has released the Xperia XZ2 smartphone “to touch your senses”, and it delivers this in volumes with 4K HDR, dynamic vibration, 3D avatar creation and a big screen and sound.

For those running macOS Mojave beta like myself, the announcement of NTFS for Mojave as a free download is very welcome, as is the ability to let Windows read Mac-formatted APFS drives.