In what will come as a shock to many, Apple has announced today that its chief design officer Sir Jony Ive, the man behind the iconic iPhone and iMac designs, is leaving the company later this year to start his own business.

Reaction to the awarding of a whole-of-government cloud services deal to Amazon Web Services, the second big contract to go to the American company in two months, after the 2021 Census was handed to it, has ranged from muted to outright anger.

Chinese mobile operators are leading the world in the deployment of “transformative” Internet of Things (IoT) solutions with 64% of the 1.5 billion global cellular connections including the "rapidly growing" Mobile IoT licensed LPWA technologies2, according to the GSM Association.

Western intelligence agencies, which have been accusing China and Russia of spying on their nations, reportedly infiltrated the Russian search firm Yandex last year, using Windows malware known as Regin that has been identified as having been created and used by the NSA and Britain's GCHQ.

Richmond Football Club is kicking goals on and off the field with its adoption of a digital-first approach to employee hiring with the deployment of specialist onboarding and induction technology.

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