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Georgian mobile operator, Cellfie Mobile, and global telco, Vodafone, have announced a new non-branded partnership agreement, in which Cellfie Mobile will look to expand its range of services, leveraging Vodafone’s expertise and advisory services.

Google has settled a case over location tracking brought by 40 attorneys-general in the US, paying US$391.5 million (A$578.95 million) in what is claimed to be the biggest multi-state attorney-general privacy settlement in the US.

Three days after it suffered a Windows ransomware attack, the Colonial Pipeline Company, which is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, appears to be slowly limping back to resuming operations, though many systems still remain shut.

Search behemoth Google may have another challenge on its hands next month, with a group of US states, both Republican and Democrat-run, planning a second anti-trust suit against the company.

Ransomware has changed from being just about encrypting a victim's data and become primarily about data exfiltration, the Russian security firm Kaspersky says.

ASX-listed Nitro Software, a firm that had its origins in Melbourne and offers a service to create, edit and sign PDFs and digital documents, appears to have suffered a data breach through cyber criminals gaining access to the company's cloud environment via a compromise of access tokens, the cyber security firm Cyble has told iTWire.

The US has filed a civil anti-trust suit against search firm Google, saying it was aimed at stopping the company, which dominates the sector, "from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anti-competitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms".

A day after Microsoft's cloud services but the dust, Apple followed in its wake with a three-hour outage affecting iCloud, Apple TV, Apple Music and other apps.

A Jewish museum in Atlanta, Georgia, which has been paying to have its site that tells the truth about the Holocaust appear at the top of a Google search for the phrase "did the Holocaust happen", has accused the search engine behemoth of profiting from Holocaust denial.

The Business Software Alliance reckons software piracy is at record levels in Australia. And we're not alone - worldwide rates are the second highest since the Alliance's Piracy Study began.