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It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

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The Semiconductor Industry Association, an American lobby group for the sector, has leaked claims that Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is trying to get around US sanctions by acquiring chip factories and also constructing them.

Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies is making a bid to return to the 5G smartphone industry by the end of 2023, Reuters reports.

Mel Silva, the MD of Google Australia, has published an extensive blog post celebrating the company's journey, starting with one employee in 2002, to over 2,000 local Googlers in 2022, providingly nearly $67 billion in annual economic value to Australia, alongside a range of other notable achievements, and a whole lot of interesting searches - read on!

Apple has released fixes for 10 bugs in macOS Big Sur, including two zero-days that are being exploited in the wild.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has seen its revenue for the first quarter of 2021 fall by 16.5% year-on-year to 152.2 billion yuan (A$30.5 billion), which the company said was as per its forecast.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei technologies has again managed to record an annual profit despite the US sanctions it faces, with the company announcing a 64.6 billion yuan (A$12.98 billion) profit for 2020, an increase of 3.2% year-on-year. Revenue was 891.4 billion yuan, an increase of 3.8% on the previous year.

With the US administration changing next year, it is very likely that Google will be able to get a waiver on selling the proprietary version of its Android operating system to Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei Technologies, something it has been unable to do ever since the Trump administration put in place sanctions on the Chinese firm.

Chinese telecommunications equipment provider Huawei Technologies has signed a deal with Dutch navigation and digital mapping firm TomTom to use its maps and services on smartphones.

Australian startup BindiMaps has installed its indoor wayfinding solution in the Sydney Startup Hub building to provide improved access for blind or vision impaired visitors to the startup facility.

A GPS — global positioning system — is only as good as its maps, and maps are only part of an overall platform that comprises time and location data, speed limits, traffic, safety cameras, points of interest, photographic or graphic representations of intersections, etc. For want of a better term, it’s the metadata that makes an average GPS great.

Sydneysiders can keep abreast of planned and unplanned water outages in the city with a new online water map launched by Sydney Water.

Nokia’s HERE mapping service is one that can truly compete with Google’s maps, and reports say there’s a new bidder: Uber.

A team of software developers at Brisbane-based company NetEngine has initiated a crowd-sourcing project leveraging mobile and web-based applications to create reliable maps for the most vulnerable areas of Nepal affected by the recent earthquake.

If you have a small business and want to list it on Apple Maps, or edit the entry that might already be there from a number of existing sources, you can!

Queenslanders will now be able to find their way around the southeast part of the state a little easier today, with Google turning on its 'transit' function for Google Maps.

Search giant Google is fast-tracking the replacement of a satellite image found on Google Maps that shows the body of a 14 year old boy shot and killed in the San Francisco Bay area in 2009.

Google's interactive video game that uses the world around - Ingress - is making the jump from Android to iOS.

Google has begun integrating features from its Waze traffic app into Google Maps, months after it acquired the Israeli company for US$1 billion.