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The Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation for the AFL player legend will benefit from a funding grant by Motorola which has announced it will give more than US$10 million in grant funding this year to charitable organisations around the world through its Motorola Solutions Foundation.

Global enterprise cloud vendor Nutanix has established a new vertical practice in the Australian market focused on the natural resources sector, including the mining, oil and gas industries.

Another budget smartphone has made its appearance in the Australian market, with Motorola announcing the launch of the moto e⁶ plus which will sell for $199.

Mobile industry pioneer Motorola has released its latest smartphone, the motorola one vision, that will sell for $499 at JB Hi-Fi, its exclusive retail partner.

Israeli firm Cellebrite, widely believed to be the company that helped the FBI gain access to the iPhone of a terrorist in 2016 after Apple refused to bow to the crime agency's demands, has advertised its latest wares as being able to break into systems running iOS 12.3 and also recent Android phones.

American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company Qualcomm has been found to have illegally suppressed competition for smartphone processors by holding out the threat of limiting supplies and obtaining excessive licensing fees.

Motorola Solutions has joined Fortem Australia, a new community-based organisation focussed on the health and wellbeing of Australia’s 300,000-plus first responders.

Smartphone sell-through in the US fell for the 14th consecutive month in January, with a 2.7% fall year-on-year, the analyst firm Counterpoint Research says, adding that this was the second consecutive year when sales decreased in the first month of the year.

Motorola has rolled out the latest version of Android, version 9 or Pie, to users of its moto g6 plus devices.

US telco Verizon has completed what it claims is the first 5G data transmission on a smartphone on a commercial 3GPP 5G New Radio network, in association with Samsung Electronics America and Qualcomm Technologies.

Apple’s share of global smartphone sales leapt significantly in the three months to the end of September, with the iPhone X remaining the top selling device for the quarter and reaching its highest share yet of 9.1%.

New Zealand radio communications company CSE-Genesis has made two new key appointments to its digital mobile radio team.

Singtel Optus, the second biggest telco in Australia by market share, has poured cold water on Telstra's claim that it is the first Australian network provider to be 5G ready, saying the lack of commercially available 5G devices means no provider can claim leadership in this race right now.

The latest smartphone OS data from Kantar reveals a mixed performance for Android in the three months ending June 2018 worldwide, but Apple's OS sales share is up and down too.

CA Technologies has announced the appointment of Gene Ng as APJ vice-president for security.

Motorola has announced its new g6, g6 Play, g6 plus and e5 Androids with 18:9 screens, consistent design, the full Motorola name and more, including dual SIM slots and separate MicroSD slot for the first time.

Back in February, Motorola's PR agency issued a media release advising that the Android Oreo 8.0.0 update for the various Motorola models, but this wasn't entirely accurate, with the true update for four models only now actually available.

Smartphone sales in the US for the first quarter of 2018 fell by 11% year-on-year, the analyst firm Counterpoint says, quoting data from its Market Pulse program.

Telstra has appointed Texas-based 30-year veteran telco executive, Roy Chestnutt, to its board.

Kantar's latest smartphone OS data shows Samsung S8 ranks first in Australia, followed by the iPhone 8, X and 8 Plus, with iOS share up to 40.6% as Android dips to 57.7%.