Australians are holding onto their mobile phones for longer, using more data, watching more TV ‘in the hand’, and are, increasingly, being influenced by digital giants like Google, Amazon and Apple, according to newly published research.

Unsolicited scam telephone calls still plague Australia, with a new report just released by the Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) revealing that six in 10 Australians are more concerned with scam calls now compared to five years ago and feel not enough is being done to protect them.

The company that manages the undersea data and power cable that links Tasmania to the Australian mainland says an additional inquiry commissioned into the failure of the cable in December 2015 is now complete and reiterates what was said earlier: that the failure was caused by unknown factors.

The leadership at Google considered a project to launch a censored search engine in China so sensitive that they would only talk about it and took no notes during meetings to reduce any paper trail, two company sources have told The Intercept, adding that the privacy team was kept in the dark about the plan.

Global software industry advocate BSA, the software alliance, says the e-commerce provisions in a trade deal struck by 11 countries, including Australia, recently will allow them to take advantage of the digital economy.

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab has had its appeal against a US public sector software ban thrown out by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Court.

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