Chinese tech giant Lenovo Group has announced group revenue in the third quarter reached a record high of US$14.1 billion, marking the tenth consecutive year-on-year quarter of growth.

Networking solutions vendor Cradlepoint has announced it will be deploying its first 5G solution to market in Australia with Telstra as its launch partner.

The market for ruggedised laptops is growing. Analyst group Technavio predicts an annual growth rate of almost 8% over the next few years, much more than the regular PCs.

Sydney-based contract and supplier technology platform Portt has completed a capital raising to secure $4 million to be used to help fuel the launch of the next version of its platform,

When the Federal Government issued a discussion paper in September last year indicating that it wanted to use the same as the basis for drafting a new cyber security strategy for 2020, it was quite clear that what was being looked at was a bigger role for the Australian Signals Directorate. However, giving ASD a domestic role is an extremely slippery slope.

More people are shifting from faster to slower NBN connections, with those on 12Mbps plans increasing to 17.6% of all NBN wholesale services at the end of the December quarter, the competition watchdog reports. The figure at the end of the previous quarter was 16.2%.

Online job advertisements portal SEEK has seen a fall in ad volume of 6.5% year-on-year in January, and 6.4% year-on-year for December 2019.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was offered a deal by the US in 2017, with California Republican Dana Rohrabacher telling him that President Donald Trump would pardon him if he denied any material he had received from a 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee did not come from the Russians.

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