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Indian optical and digital solutions company STL Tech has partnered with Belgian fibre infrastructure provider Wyre to support the development of a multi-gigabit FTTH network.

Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.

Shipments of traditional PCs — notebooks, desktops and workstations — in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will come to 82.7 million units this year, a 12.7% increase year-on-year, the technology analyst firm IDC says, adding that with the effect of the pandemic not expected to lessen in any way, the demand for devices that could be used for working from home would be strong through 2020 and into the first half of 2021.

Swedish telecommunications equipment provider Ericsson has signed a deal with Belgium's biggest mobile provider Proximus to provide the latter with 5G core equipment and also modernising its existing 4G core.

Google has held out a nice, juicy carrot overnight, hoping that Australia will bite and agree to the terms that it wants for the media code that is being negotiated with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Global IT outsourcing firm Excis has been hit by a Windows ransomware attack, with the malware used being Sekhmet, another one of the breed that exfiltrates victims' data before locking it down.

Close on the heels of an unsuccessful attack on global technology supplier Pitney Bowes, the people behind the Maze ransomware, which infects Windows systems, have hit the Belgian firm HLB, which has a global network of independent advisory and accounting businesses in 130 countries.

The program office for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has made little progress in fixing hundreds of design flaws in the fighter jet, according to a report obtained by the non-partisan independent watchdog Project On Government Oversight.

Google employees are listening to audio files recorded by the company's Home smart speakers and the Google Assistant smartphone app, the Belgian website VRT NWS has reported, adding that it was able to listen to more than a thousand recordings.

Australian-listed technology company Calix has successfully commenced the commissioning of a project to demonstrate its carbon capture technology for the cement and lime industries.

The new 5G Life Campus, first of its kind, will "test 5G technologies across a range of innovative applications"."

Australia ranks fourth among the countries most vulnerable to hacking attacks, according to a study by penetration testing and information security form Rapid7.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Belgium, Optus is offering its customers who want to contact family and friends, free calls to Belgium throughout March.

Speculation is rife that the terrorists who attacked multiple locations in Paris on Friday night, killing at least 129 people, may have communicated when planning and carrying out their attacks using Sony PlayStation 4 gaming consoles.

Apple fans are spending hundreds of dollars on new iPhones but that's nothing compared to one Belgian teen, who dropped $53,000 on in-app purchases for strategy game Game of War: Fire Age.

Global solutions and services provider Dimension Data Dimension has completed the acquisition of European communications services provider NextiraOne as the company looks to grow its business through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions.

The project management profession is experiencing continued growth and high median salaries, including in Australia, according to the recently released 2013 Project Management Salary Survey from the Project Management Institute (PMI) which also reports signs of improvement in various economies around the world.

Global IT services and technology provider, Smartmatic, has sealed a 10-year contract with Belgium's election authority, FPS Interior to supply its innovative automated election system, starting with local elections that will take place in Belgium in October this year.

Kaspersky Labs' analysis of the Duqu malware shows it to be highly targeted and shows very clearly that it fits any reasonable definition of 'Advanced Persistent Threat.'

All smartphones suffer from reduced signal strength when held in particular ways, and the iPhone 4 is no exception, according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Few owners are reporting issues to Apple, and return rates are particularly low, he claimed. But Apple has decided to give all owners a free case as this may help ameliorate the issue.