| Hi John,
The British consumer group Which? has found that the iPhone 7 battery is the worst among recent big-brand smartphones, after the group compared it with the Samsung Galaxy S7, the HTC 10 and the LG G5.
"Alas poor Yorick - he had an iPhone/Note7 [insert model here]." The mantra may well become the catchcry of 2016 as thousands of reports have emerged about all manner of smartphones exploding or catching fire – not just the recalled Samsung Galaxy Note7.
Fans at Saturday’s AFL grand final generated a massive 2.3 terabytes of traffic on the Telstra mobile network using their mobile phones and other devices to stream video, browse the Internet, upload photos to social media and receive and make telephone calls.
When the lights went out in South Australia and the entire state was hit by power outages, energy infrastructure provider Emerson Network Power required a rapid response to calls for assistance from customers for the protection of crucial information stored in data centres under its management.
The private conversations of thousands of Dutch citizens have ended up in the hands of the Australian technology company Appen which develops software for converting speech into text thanks to British spy agency GCHQ.
Apple has lost its retrial appeal on one of the patent infringement suits for its FaceTime app. There is a second trial for another infringement for iMessage still underway.
The Federal Department of Health has been forced to remove a dataset made available to the public on the data.gov.au website after a researcher at Melbourne University found that service provider IDs could be identified. We also have all the important breaking news for the past 24 hours. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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